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Renee Hawkins

Information Abundance and Its Implications for Education | User Generated Education - 3 views

  • I have re-framed information overload from being discussed as a cautionary consequence of the technology age to us living in a time of information abundance.  I think we are living in one of the most exciting times in the history of humankind. We are living in a world of information abundance, surplus, and access
  • I think we are living in one of the most exciting times in the history of humankind. We are living in a world of information abundance, surplus, and access
Peter Sun

Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education | Association of College... - 1 views

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    Higher Education Information Literacy competencies and standards from Association of College and Research Librarians.
Renee Hawkins

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

  • "Saturn-car"
    • Renee Hawkins
       
      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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      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.
Dante Beretta

Designing Libraries: Learning for a Lifetime - 3 views

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    I was struck by the empahsis on planning for presentation space as part of the design for a library. The format of the final product or outcome of a research project in years to come will involve sharing in ways we have probably not yet considered, much less designed in our school spaces.
Siobhan O'Boyle

IMatrix - 1 views

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    The six Dimensions of Inquiry are: Questioning, Locating Information, Evaluating Information, Applying Information, Sharing Knowledge and Reflecting. Together they represent the inquiry process. Standards now require that inquiry be taught across all content areas and all grade levels. The IMatrix System allows you to see the hierarchical scaffolding of skills in these dimensions from early grades through high school...
Faith Ward

Study Ties College Success to Students' Exposure to a High School Librarian - The Digit... - 0 views

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    Attention, educators: training high school students early in digital research, partnering them with a school librarian, and providing time to practice skills can instill a high level of confidence during college. This triple play of digital literacy education was affirmed by preliminary observations of a study underway by EBSCO Information Service s, an online database provider.
Faith Ward

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

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    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!
Peter Sun

Celebrate International Literacy Day! - ReadWriteThink - 0 views

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    Lesson plans on media/digital literacy. Thanks to Katie Baughman for this. Lesson plans for various grade levels.
Renee Hawkins

Right Question Institute - A Catalyst for Microdemocracy - 0 views

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    Interesting resources about learning and teaching how to ask "beautiful questions.
Peter Sun

Interview with David Perkins, Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education - YouTube - 0 views

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    David Perkins on "Lifeworthy Learning".
Renee Hawkins

Search Education - Google - 1 views

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    Lessons plans and live trainings.
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    Great resource for teaching Google search strategies!
Reema Khanchandani

St. Cloud State University Literacy Education Online - 2 views

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    Similar to CRLS's webpage. This website has a ton of information on many topics from citing to evaluating online sources.
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    I like their explanation of why it is necessary to cite source material properly. It stresses the credibility that expert sources lend to an argument, the author's assumed interest in building his/her own professional reputation, the reader's possible interest in further study of a topic, and the importance of giving and receiving due credit for one's thoughts.
Siobhan O'Boyle

INFOhio IMatrix: A Tool to Enhance Deep, Rigorous Learning! - 1 views

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    Here's an article about Ohio's iMatrix from "Teacher Librarian"; I'll also post the link to iMatrix itself. It looks like a fancy version of what we are trying to do with our google site, and it's also searchable by skill or grade level. What keeps you up at night? Educating students to be college and career ready? Incorporating inquiry into your teaching for the very first time? Shifting your instruction to explore topics in greater depth and at more rigorous levels of learning? Or are you struggling to incorporate formative instructional assessment?
Dante Beretta

Citation Analysis for the Modern Instructor: An Integrated Review of Emerging Research - 0 views

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    While this article focuses on citation analysis and its impact in higher education, it discusses specific databases and the problem of keeping up with the boom in online information sources. It also provides a glimpse of the cutting edge of research about research.
Faith Ward

NYC edtech startup Citelighter relocating to Baltimore [VIDEO] - 0 views

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    The startup cites the city's strength as an edtech hub as its main reason for making the move. Citelighter is free and I am demoing an educator account.
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