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This piece articulates why students need to be taught information literacy skills and be exposed to a variety of information sources on the web. "Students today write reports from information they find on the internet. They need to understand this type of new information source and the network it comes from. Students are making connections with many different kinds of people, actively looking for and soliciting different points of view. They need to develop the skill to work out just who are the experts are in the crowd and then using a "blend of personal and social information" to predict the best solution,create the best content and ask the best questions."

"Students often have trouble finding appropriate topics for research projects in mathematics. This page presents some suggestions of where to look." (American)

Good article for assisting students explore research tools.

20 Tips On How To Work With Students Who Have a Hard Time Collaborating Cited From: http://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/20-tips-on-how-to-work-with-students-who-have-a-hard-time-collaborating/#ixzz2hxBvFpox

There is a new digital divide on the horizon. It is not based around who has devices and who does not, but instead the new digital divide will be based around students who know how to effectively find and curate information and those who do not. Helene Blowers has come up with seven ideas about the new digital divide - four of them, the ones I felt related to searching, are listed below.

A useful post that give a lot of good advice about how to get the best from your Google searches. Google has become very good at understanding and providing relevant results for many popular queries, so there are a lot of people getting into bad habits and lazy with their searches and simply taking the auto-selected results. As teachers we should be teaching our students to explore more deeply and critically appraise all their results before coming to any conclusions or using the information. Students need to learn to use Google search modifiers. These manual commands can be used in any search queries and will allow you force Google to bring you the results you want.

Infotopia-A Safe Google Alternative Search Engine for Students

Good search engine for students; has American bias

Another alternative to Google for students

There are many tools that can be used to help with the Student Learning Objectives process. This post discusses how to use Google spreadsheets to assist with the collection of data, sharing the information, and collaborating with others. There is also a link to the template the author created

The Panda Book Awards reading initiative encourages young people to read quality books selected by international librarians throughout China and invites students from participating schools to vote for their favorite book published in 2013-2014. The Panda books are carefully chosen to represent an international selection. The panda holds a special place in the hearts of the Chinese people as it is a symbol of peace and a token of forging friendly ties. Students will explore some excellent books and be able to share their views on this wiki that will connect the participating schools, creating a learning environment that will go beyond classroom walls and bring together students from international schools across China.

The ADCC education site has a wealth of resources about Australia's military history and heritage for teachers and students.

Good game ideas to suggest to students (and teachers).

I find the department has some good tools for students to use to research, especially FUSE. I find the information appropriate for the students in my grade.

Food for thought in terms of what students know about internet information and what we teach them.

A presentation about Wikipedia for students doing research

Invaluable resource for students of Yr 12 Legal Studies

You will find it easy to find great resources for teachers and students.

Great resource for senior history students and teachers

Great website to use with students for brainstorming. Create a topic wall and students simply add their electronic post notes to the wall-160 characters limit. Can also be used for things such as personal to do lists, invites etc...

Another interesting option from Google. Create a quiz or survey for your class and send them the QR code to find it. It looks simple and has a video, created by high school students, to help explain how it works