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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.
Renee Hawkins

21st Century Skills in Action in School Libraries | 21st Century Library Blog - 0 views

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    We need to add "data" to the list. Students should have practice finding and interpreting data.
Siobhan O'Boyle

IFTF: Future Work Skills 2020 - 3 views

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    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.
Renee Hawkins

Stubborn Skills Gap in America's Work Force - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • The report is based on assessments of literacy, math skills and problem-solving using information technology
Renee Hawkins

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

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    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
Faith Ward

TRAILS - Information Literacy Assessment - 0 views

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    I have signed-up for an account. The LS assessments look really on target. I have heard some negative feedback about the US assessment but still think this is worth looking at for possible tool to benchmark skills. -Faith TRAILS is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 12th grade standards. The assessment items are based on the American Association of School Librarians' Standards for the 21st-Century Learner and those from the Common Core State Standards Initiative that have been adopted by most states. The Web-based system was developed to provide an easily accessible and flexible tool for school librarians and teachers to identify strengths and weaknesses in the information-seeking skills of their students. It is made available at no cost to users.
Renee Hawkins

Digital Literacy, Libraries, and Public Policy - 2 views

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    "Digital literacy is the ability to use information and communication technologies  to find, understand, evaluate, create, and communicate digital information, an  ability that requires both cognitive and technical skills.
Renee Hawkins

12 Ways To Be More Search Savvy | MindShift - 1 views

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    From 2011 and still relevant. Some basic skills to model in the classroom.
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

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."
Renee Hawkins

Noodletools, EasyBib, Refworks… What's out there? - 0 views

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    Wondering about the pro's and con's of Citelighter compared to NoodleBib.  This article compares several citation generators. The Citelighter rep spoke about a major update due out in about 5 weeks that will also provide templates (among other things) to support a variety of student writing.  
Peter Sun

Big6 Skills™- CRLS Research Guide - 0 views

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    Cambridge Rindge & Latin School's Research Webpage
Renee Hawkins

Learning/WebLiteracyStandard - MozillaWiki - 0 views

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    As we think about what skills and capacities a GFS graduate should have, this might be helpful.
Faith Ward

The-3-Click-Dilemma: are library databases nearing the tipping point of obsolescence? - 0 views

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    I had an interesting conversation with a faculty member last week that went something like this: "Brian, I want you to know that it's getting harder for me to get students to use the library- especially the databases- anything beyond three clicks is just too many." A very interesting post discussing the practical facets of student searching. This made me *think* a lot.
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?
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...
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.
Faith Ward

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

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    "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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