Project Based Learning | BIE - 2 views
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Jennie Bales on 18 Dec 14Website with some free content that explore PBL - includes examples, resources, videos and links to related networks.
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Critical Thinking Skills Cheatsheet infographic - Global Digital Citizen Foundation - 3 views
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Critical Thinking Skills Cheatsheet is a simple infographic offering questions that work to develop critical thinking on any given topic. Whenever your students discover or talk about new information, encourage them to use these questions for sparking debate and the sharing of opinions and insights among each other. Together they can work at building critical thinking skills in a collaborative and supportive atmosphere.
Web 2.0 tools in the information skills process: Sites2See. - 3 views
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A range of web tools identified against each of the six steps in the NSW information skills process.
Project or Activity? Project-Based Learning and Cousins | Getting Smart - 1 views
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A project is a multistep activity undertaken by an individual or group to achieve a particular aim. With that broad definition there's a lot of project-based learning happening in schools these days. Some is better than others and there are a lot of variations: some thin, some deep; some teacher-led, some student-driven; some with clear deliverables, and some very open-ended.
Lucacept - intercepting the Web | A teacher learning about the web and sharing it with ... - 1 views
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Jenny Luca is Director of ICT and eLearning at Toorak College in Mt.Eliza. Her blog aims to share what she discovers about the potential of Web 2.0 application in educational settings.
Website Evaluation pdf - 2 views
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The capacity to critically evaluate information is central within the research process of locating resources for academic purposes. Apart from being able to differentiate between fact and fiction, it's important for you to be able to assess the relevance, accuracy and suitability of information to your particular purpose.
11 Hilarious Hoax Sites to Test Website Evaluation | TeachBytes - 2 views
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In this day and age, where anyone with access to the internet can create a website, it is critical that we as educators teach our students how to evaluate web content. These wonderfully funny hoax websites, test readers on their ability to evaluate websites. These hoax sites are a great way to bring humor and hands-on evaluation into your classroom, and test your students' web resource evaluation skills.
Literacy in Every Classroom: How Knowledge Powers Reading - 1 views
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By Doug Lemov writing for Educational Leadership. To help students master nonfiction reading, we must design instruction that builds their background knowledge. Supports early stages of inquiry learning - tuning in, immersion, exploration.
8 Ways to Hone Your Fact-Checking Skills - InformED - 1 views
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In an age where the majority of us get our news through social media, the rise of fake news sites, hoaxes and misinformation online is concerning, especially considering that many young people lack the skills necessary to judge the credibility of information they encounter online.
Crafting a Vision for Empowered Learning and Teaching: Beyond the $1,000 Pencil - Novem... - 1 views
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Alan November article covers: Did the assignment build capacity for critical thinking on the web? Did the assignment develop new lines of inquiry? Are there opportunities for students to make their thinking visible? Are there opportunities to broaden the perspective of the conversation with authentic audiences from around the world? Are there opportunities for students to create a contribution (purposeful work)? Do students own their learning?
Visible Thinking - 0 views
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Visible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based approach to integrating the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters. This site informs on the pedagogy and practices to enable visible thinking in students.
How To Determine A Student's Prior Knowledge - Edudemic - 0 views
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How To Determine A Student's Prior Knowledge is one of many articles and resource for teacher to help connect education and technology.
ASLA: Impact of School Libraries on Student Achievement: A Review of the Literature - 0 views
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In March 2003, the Australian School Library Association commissioned the Australian Council for Education Research to conduct a review of the research literature on school libraries and student achievement. Commonly known as the Lonsdale Report (2003), it identifies the need for research that links school libraries to student achievement in Australia.
Interesting Ways | edte.ch - 0 views
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The Interesting Ways series continues to be a great example of crowdsourcing good quality classroom ideas. Includes using Google Earth and Maps, Google docs and forms, devices such as ipads, ipods, IWBs and mobile phones and audio and visual tools
Practically Primary - 0 views
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Primary online students talk abut their learning and events in the school. An example of a student blog supported by the teacher librarian.
Critical Reading Towards Critical Writing - 0 views
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Critical writing depends on critical reading. Most of the papers you write will involve reflection on written texts - the thinking and research that has already been done on your subject. In order to write your own analysis of this subject, you will need to do careful critical reading of sources and to use them critically to make your own argument. The judgments and interpretations you make of the texts you read are the first steps towards formulating your own approach.
Turn your notes into writing using the Cornell method | The Thesis Whisperer - 0 views
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the Cornell Method. The Cornell Method was invented about sixty years ago (see Walter Pauk's 1962 classic How to Study at College, now in its tenth edition), though I only found out about it last month. It incorporates a lot of what I was doing already-providing spaces for notes, and margins for reactions, connections and comments. But it takes it further, and adds some very cool functions. Firstly, the template gives you less space to write notes. Y
Librarians are go - 0 views
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Stacey Tayor works in an International Baccalaureate secondary girls school in Sydney and spends time trying to constantly improve and develop the library services for the school community. Winner of the John Hirst Award 2012.
Literature Review | IFLA Trend Report - 0 views
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The literature review is a fundamental building block of the IFLA Trend Report. It reviews and summarises existing over 170 studies, trend forecasts, journal articles and academic papers which look at future trends which have the potential to affect the global information environment.
Value of School Libraries | ReadPlus - 0 views
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Annotated list of articles on the value of school libraries and teacher librarians - suitable for a more general audience