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Rhondda Powling

Critical thinking In the classroom - 18 views

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shared by Rhondda Powling on 20 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 07 Dec 10
     
    Designed to assist teachers to help their students, Microsoft offers this a free 37 page ebook entitled Developing Critical Thinking Through Web Research Skills. The ebook presents strategies for teaching Internet search skills and strategies for evaluating information. The ebook also links to many additional resources for teaching web search strategies. There are strategies and resources appropriate for students from in early elementary grades through high school included in the ebook. AOf course it has many references to Bing and other Microsoft products, but overall it is a good resource.
Rhondda Powling

Incompetent Research Skills Curb Users' Problem Solving (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - 2 views

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shared by Rhondda Powling on 15 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 15 Apr 11
     
    A good short piece about how users search, and the importance of teaching information literacy in schools. One problem with search engines is that they are too good at finding information. The users see them as "answer engines" but the users may then do less critical analysis and rely on simple strategies only
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