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Caroline Roche

skills.jpg (960×714) - 4 views

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    10 skills for the future workforce
Caroline Roche

Homework Center: Writing - 4 views

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    Writing skills - how to structure your essays
Caroline Roche

Incompetent Research Skills Curb Users' Problem Solving (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - 11 views

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    A good short piece about how users search, and the importance of teaching information literacy in schools
Caroline Roche

365 things to make you go "Hmmm..." | Thinking skills resources | Sparky Teaching - 7 views

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    Thinking skills - one for every day
Ruth Clarke

Referencing - 0 views

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    This tutorial provides a basic overview of referencing. You will learn when and why you need to reference the material that you read for your assignments, and how to do it correctly. You will have a chance to test what you have learned. If you wish to develop your skills further, we'll point you towards more advanced training at the end of the tutorial. When you have completed the tutorial you will: *Know when you need to reference information *Understand why correct referencing is necessary *Know how to insert citations into your essay *Be able to format references correctly
anonymous

Study Skills | University of Manchester - 7 views

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    This site has been developed as a source of information, hints & tips and practical activities to help you develop your study skills and become a better learner. If you're just browsing for future reference, click on the topics on the right hand side to get an overview of what's here.
Caroline Roche

Mind - Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits - NYTimes.com - 7 views

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    This is an excellent article about study skills and the way that the brain stores information
Mrs L. Watts (Retired school librarian)

Mondofacto: Study Skills - 0 views

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    Presentation, research, exams - pick your topic and work your way through a comprehensive training course devised by Mondofacto, an education company specialising in online learning.
Dewey 027

QUT | Studywell - 0 views

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    Queensland University of Technology Library study skills site
Certificate IV Assessment

Certificate IV in Training and Assessment: The Key to New Career - 1 views

The Certificate IV in Training and Assessment is the right course for enhancing and advancing the skills of employees in our company. For those who wanted to be employed as a nationally recognised ...

Certificate IV in Training and Assessment

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anonymous

Downloadable resources for Extended Project tutors and assessors (The University of Man... - 14 views

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    A series of bespoke workshops has been designed by experienced researchers specifically to support students studying for the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) or undertaking an Extended Project as part of their Diploma. These sessions can be used by teachers delivering the taught element of the EPQ to provide students with an excellent grounding in the academic and intellectual skills required.
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    Fantastic resource Lesley, thanks for sharing this. Useful too to adapt ideas for the Higher Project Qualification.
missadkins

Typing - Home Learning - 0 views

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    Great sites for typing practise!
Ruth Clarke

Finding Information for Your Assignment - 1 views

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    tutorial on web searching, boolean operators,
Katie Day

News: What Students Don't Know - Inside Higher Ed - 5 views

  • The prevalence of Google in student research is well-documented, but the Illinois researchers found something they did not expect: students were not very good at using Google. They were basically clueless about the logic underlying how the search engine organizes and displays its results. Consequently, the students did not know how to build a search that would return good sources. (For instance, limiting a search to news articles, or querying specific databases such as Google Book Search or Google Scholar.)
  • Librarians often have to walk that line between giving a person a fish and teaching her how to fish, proverbially speaking, says Thill. And the answer can rightly vary based on how quickly she needs a fish, whether she has the skills and coordination to competently wield a pole, and whether her ultimate goal is to become a master angler.
  • “It’s not about teaching shortcuts, it’s about teaching them not to take the long way to a goal,” says Elisa Addlesperger, a reference and instruction librarian at DePaul. “They’re taking very long, circuitous routes to their goals.… I think it embitters them and makes them hate learning.” Teaching efficiency is not a compromise of librarianship, adds Jagman; it is a value.
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    results of an ethnographic study of college students and their relationship with libraries and level of information literacy...  Quote: "In other words: Today's college students might have grown up with the language of the information age, but they do not necessarily know the grammar."
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