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Renee Hawkins

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

  • "Saturn-car"
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      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.
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

Big6 Skills™- CRLS Research Guide - 0 views

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    Cambridge Rindge & Latin School's Research Webpage
Peter Sun

Writing Manual Home - 0 views

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    Sample research papers by grade (6-12) from San Diego
Peter Sun

Didn't Ace SAT? Just Design Microbe Transplant Research - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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    Bard College ... Research skills over SAT scores
Faith Ward

Looks good on paper: A flawed system for judging research is leading to academic fraud - 0 views

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    Interesting article on fraud and plagiarism in scientific research publishing.
Faith Ward

As Researchers Turn to Google, Libraries Navigate the Messy World of Discovery Tools - 0 views

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    Many professors and students gravitate to Google as a gateway to research. Libraries want to offer them a comparably simple and broad experience for searching academic content. Instead of bewildering users with a bevy of specialized databases-books here, articles there-many libraries now offer one-stop search boxes that comb entire collections, Google style. The reality of the roll-out is that it is messy.
Faith Ward

JSTOR Research Basics for High School Students - 0 views

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    Research Basics for High School Students http://researchbasics.jstor.org/ is a Moodle-based course whose goal is to teach research skills to those with a view to higher learning. In their words "This course contains 3 modules. Each module has 3 lessons. Lessons are made up of video lectures followed by practice activities. After completing all 3 lessons in a module, students may take a quiz, get feedback and a score, and earn a badge on completion of the module."
Faith Ward

Scaffolding the Research Process from Internet Librarian Conference - 0 views

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    I thought this was very well done as it outlines the process step-by-step.
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.
Dante Beretta

Parkdale High School Library Library Research Portal - 0 views

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    Parkdale High School 's library is an integral component to student achievement. By providing literature and technology resources together, the library will continue to offer students and staff members the best opportunity to access information,construct knowledge and develop critical thinking skills. We encourage students to appreciate literature and to become responsible digital citizens.
Renee Hawkins

Top 11 Trusted (And Free) Search Engines For Scientific and Academic Research - 0 views

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    Remarkable! and FREE!
Renee Hawkins

Hyperlinking the traditional: Writer's choice dilema | On the Edge - 0 views

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    Another benchmark perhaps - student research to publishing We should be teaching them to hyperlink their ideas to the source.
Renee Hawkins

Mashpedia, the Video Encyclopedia - 0 views

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    Joyce Valenza mentions this search engine in her "See Sally Research" TEDx Talk
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.
Renee Hawkins

Multiple Choice = Google | My Wired Life - 0 views

  • 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.
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    "This Tweet shifted my world: If you can Google it, it isn't a good assignment." http://t.co/Rq0A8CytBR by @crossons
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    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.
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