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Aaron Davis

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: Great Research Tools for Teachers and Students - 0 views

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    An interesting list of tools for doing research online.
Aaron Davis

THINKING TOOLS - 0 views

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    Using thinking tools is one way to "make thinking visible" and help our students explain their thoughts in a simple and explicit way. As the team from Project Zero themselves say "Visible Thinking includes a large number of classroom routines, easily and flexibly integrated with content learning, and representing areas of thinking such as understanding, truth and evidence, fairness and moral reasoning, creativity, self-management, and decision making. It also provides tools for integrating the arts with subject-matter content. Finally, it includes a practical framework for how to create "cultures of thinking" in individual classrooms and within an entire school."
Aaron Davis

Research strategies for senior students - 0 views

  • It’s true that the Internet can be a wild and woolly place to find information, with the potential for complexity, bias and reliability concerns. However, it is also the environment that most resembles real life, where complexity, bias and reliability concerns are just part of the way the world actually works.
  • 1. Start with the Wikipedia article.
  • look at the citations list.
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  • 3. Go to Google Scholar
  • 4. Set up a bookmarking system
  • 5: While in Diigo, do a search for the obvious tags
  • 6. Set up some kind of tool that allows them to curate content.
  • 7. Then there is the use of Internet search in general, such as Google or Bing.
  • go to Google Alerts and set up an alert for anytime that topic is mentioned online.
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    A great summary of how to go about doing research online from Chris Betcher.
Aaron Davis

6 Steps to Teaching Students to Search | Teacher Tech - 0 views

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