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Faith Ward

Writing Instructor, Skeptical of Automated Grading, Pits Machine vs. Machine - 0 views

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Turnitin writing

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  • Faith Ward on 28 Apr 14
     
    Great article to have under your belt for a Turnitin Session at the SI. "M. Scott Brauer for The Chronicle Les Perelman, a former director of undergraduate writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, sits in his wife's office and reads aloud from his latest essay. "Privateness has not been and undoubtedly never will be lauded, precarious, and decent," he reads. "Humankind will always subjugate privateness."
Renee Hawkins

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

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research information literacy 21stcenturyskills web searching library skills

shared by Renee Hawkins on 24 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Renee Hawkins on 24 Feb 14
     
    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

CCSC_SocialStudies_gr9-12w.pdf - 0 views

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socialstudies common core standards

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  • Peter Sun on 27 Aug 13
     
    Maryland Common Core Standards for Writing in History/Social Studies
Peter Sun

Writing Manual Home - 0 views

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research paper writing example

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  • Peter Sun on 27 Aug 13
     
    Sample research papers by grade (6-12) from San Diego
Faith Ward

The Citation Project - 0 views

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writing plaigarism

shared by Faith Ward on 10 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Faith Ward on 10 Nov 14
     
    Debbie Abilock referred to data from this site in one of her presentations. I think it could be a good resource for History and English departments. The Citation Project is a multi-institution research project responding to educators' concerns about plagiarism and the teaching of writing. Although much has been written on this topic and many have expressed concerns, little empirical data is available to describe what students are actually doing with their sources.
Peter Sun

Big6 Skills™- CRLS Research Guide - 0 views

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Big6 research information_literacy writing

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  • Peter Sun on 17 Jul 13
     
    Cambridge Rindge & Latin School's Research Webpage
Renee Hawkins

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

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education teaching students online research skills

shared by Renee Hawkins on 28 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • "Saturn-car"
    • Renee Hawkins
      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.
    • Renee Hawkins
      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.
Faith Ward

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

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research citation report writing

shared by Faith Ward on 22 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Faith Ward on 22 Nov 13
     
    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.
Renee Hawkins

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

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hyperlink writing writer research 21stcenturyskills

shared by Renee Hawkins on 24 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • Renee Hawkins on 24 Apr 14
     
    Another benchmark perhaps - student research to publishing We should be teaching them to hyperlink their ideas to the source.
Faith Ward

Though Defiant, Senator Accused of Plagiarism Admits Errors - 0 views

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plagiarism

shared by Faith Ward on 06 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Faith Ward on 06 Nov 13
     
    Synopsis of Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky acknowledging that "mistakes" in his office had caused unattributed writing by others to appear in his own work and announced that he was instituting safeguards to prevent such breaches from happening again. Article shows examples of the plagiarism and cites other notable politicians who have been caught.
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