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Renee Hawkins

Education Week: Teaching Students Better Online Research Skills - 3 views

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shared by Renee Hawkins on 28 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • "Saturn-car"
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      Renee Hawkins on 28 Jul 13
       
      Actually - what worked is Saturn -car. You don't need quotes but you do need to place a space after the word Saturn and before the "-".
  • Finding the right search engine or database is also an important step in conducting online research,
  • Google Scholar
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  • Google Books
  • type in a key word and the word "kid" after it. Doing so pulls up results for younger students.
  • checking whether its URL ends in a .com, .org, .gov, or .edu.
  • a lesson called "Whodunit," which takes students to various sites and has them answer questions about who wrote the information, what their credentials are, and who is sponsoring the site.
  • a checklist to help students decide whether sites are credible. It includes questions such as: Are there dead links? Do images support the stated facts? Are there links and references to other websites, and resources and experts that corroborate the information?
  • language comes on too strong and the attempt is to persuade readers how to think
  • teaching a media-literacy unit
  • "If you don't take time to do it, the kids aren't going to be giving you their best work,"
  • integrated searching into her classroom by creating a classroom job of "searcher." That student's responsibility was to search the Internet for answers to questions that would come up during the day's class. Ms. Shaw used that approach as an opportunity to talk about strategies for good online research.
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      Renee Hawkins on 28 Jul 13
       
      A great idea! Indirect instruction plus careful modeling in class. Then outsource discussion questions as a homework assignment to the class "searcher." Eventually students will teach one another the skills.
  • Teachers should give credit to the process of searching, not just for the final product, she added. Students can turn in search logs or annotated bibliographies to emphasize that process.
  • it's vital to reinforce those skills repeatedly in working with students.
  • Every context is different.
  • predict the results they expect to see when they type in search terms,
  • November 2012, the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project released a study that surveyed 2,067 Advanced Placement and National Writing Project teachers.
  • You need precise words
  • while most teachers agreed that the Internet provides a wealth of information to students, they also said students often don't have the digital-literacy skills to wade through that information.
  • skim search results for words that pop up, especially unfamiliar words.
  • For instance, if a student wanted to find information on immigrants who send money back to their home countries, the term "remittances"
  • quotation marks around their search terms to get results that include the exact wording
  • minus sign eliminates something from a search.
Renee Hawkins

Free Technology for Teachers: How to Create Google Scholar Alerts - 0 views

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shared by Renee Hawkins on 17 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Renee Hawkins on 17 Nov 13
     
    Should we add this simple "how to" to our Google workshop?
  • Renee Hawkins on 17 Nov 13
     
    Nifty way to have the research come to you, rather than you chasing the research.
Renee Hawkins

Why It's Imperative to Teach Students How to Question as the Ultimate Survival Skill - 0 views

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shared by Renee Hawkins on 31 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Renee Hawkins on 31 Mar 14
     
    This is a informative article explaining why students don't ask as many questions as they grow up and why we should be concerned. It answers the "why" we should teach students to ask questions
Renee Hawkins

Multiple Choice = Google | My Wired Life - 0 views

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shared by Renee Hawkins on 02 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • If you can Google it, it isn’t a good assignment.
  • a history professor at Oberlin College
  • He said that they often need to reteach students how to read and study history when they arrive at Oberlin.
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  • They haven’t been taught to read for concepts, context and the big picture.
  • Renee Hawkins on 02 Sep 13
     
    "This Tweet shifted my world: If you can Google it, it isn't a good assignment." http://t.co/Rq0A8CytBR by @crossons
  • Renee Hawkins on 02 Sep 13
     
    Read the short blog post, follow some of the links, and most importantly, try to find 50 minutes to watch the Will Richardson video - from his ISTE presentation. All of this reinforces my belief (our belief) that the library should be at the CENTER of a school's academic purpose. Teachers should be sending students to this place of inquiry, research, collaboration, and creative problem-solving. This belief should drive our library re-design and it's program.
Renee Hawkins

Right Question Institute - A Catalyst for Microdemocracy - 0 views

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shared by Renee Hawkins on 10 Mar 14 - Cached
  • Renee Hawkins on 10 Mar 14
     
    Interesting resources about learning and teaching how to ask "beautiful questions.
Faith Ward

Project Information Literacy Research Report: "Learning the Ropes" | - 0 views

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shared by Faith Ward on 17 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Faith Ward on 17 Jan 14
     
    How Freshmen Conduct Course Research Once They Enter College - take a look at the executive summary about how prepared these students were to do research at the higher ed level. This is extremely timely given our work this year!
Faith Ward

Course Overview - 0 views

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shared by Faith Ward on 10 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Faith Ward on 10 Nov 14
     
    I highlighted this new AP course being offered and just wanted to place the bookmark here: The primary goals of the AP Seminar course are to help you understand how to study an issue from multiple perspectives, evaluate source information, and then develop and communicate effectively a logical, fact-based point of view. You will practice and apply these skills through the exploration of the complex topics and by examining a variety of and often divergent or competing perspectives.
Siobhan O'Boyle

IFTF: Future Work Skills 2020 - 3 views

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shared by Siobhan O'Boyle on 27 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Siobhan O'Boyle on 27 Aug 13
     
    This helped me think a little more about the big picture and what could be beyond college for our students. Summary: Global connectivity, smart machines, and new media are just some of the drivers reshaping how we think about work, what constitutes work, and the skills we will need to be productive contributors in the future. This report analyzes key drivers that will reshape the landscape of work and identifies key work skills needed in the next 10 years.
Faith Ward

Adding Friction: How to Design Deliberate Thinking into the Research Process - 0 views

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shared by Faith Ward on 04 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Faith Ward on 04 Oct 13
     
    "Teachers often ask, 'Why should I teach more than one citation style?' Some argue that students should learn just one style well. Since they are comfortable with MLA, they assign it for everything. That made sense in the past ...
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