Critical Thinking - 0 views
Students are able to explore topics for debates and speeches using the Issues Researcher! #techinpedagogy Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mr_Henry6H/status/965982163165466625 Tool Name: Pro...
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Orwell - A game where you play as an analyst in a surveillance state PC/Mac/Linux - 2 views
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caseytorstenson on 19 Feb 18(Please note the link to a Free Demo download on the right hand side of the linked page) Orwell is an episodic indie game that puts players in the role of an analyst working for a fictional surveillance state in the wake of a bomb explosion in a public square. Players are tasked with scouring news sites, social networking sites, message boards, blogs, text chats, and the like for clues as to the identity of the bomber and possible motivations for the bombing. Potentially relevant information is highlighted, but it is up to the player to decide whether each piece of information is worthy of inclusion in a report to be passed up the chain of command. The items selected create the narrative that law enforcement will act upon, but the player has no say as to what actions are taken beyond selecting what to include in the accumulated data. The story unfolds through the narrative that player-selected data constructs and the actions that result. Mistakes can result in the detention or prosecution of innocents. This forces the player to exercise research and critical thinking skills, particularly evaluating data as relevant or irrelevant, reading between the lines, and maintaining awareness of how each piece of information contributes to an overall narrative. Embedded in all of this is a clever critique of the surveillance apparatus and how it relates to our conceptions of freedom, safety, and privacy-a critique, I would argue, worthy of the game's name. I selected Orwell for this critical thinking post because it is essentially a gamified exercise in research, or, put another way, research with training-wheels. All of the pieces of data that the user can include are presented in context, and players must evaluate how a clue relates to both its context and to the investigation as a whole in order to make useful selections. That kind of consideration is essentially what we are doing as we research material for inclusion in an academic paper, and so I believe the game doe
Google Scholar - 2 views
Short Description: Google scholar is a free online search engine that looks strictly for scholarly articles depending on the keywords entered in the search box. In other words, google scholar prov...
Google Scholar - Critical Thinking - 4 views
Tool Name: Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com Short Description: Google Scholar is an online search engine that provides students with scholarly literature. This research tool is easy to u...
Google Scholar - Research Database - 0 views
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Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
NoodleTools.com - 1 views
an online research management platform that can be used by students and teachers to help with critical thinking and authentic research. It helps with citing, taking notes and doing outlines, collab...
JSTOR (Journal Storage) Database - 1 views
Writing a paper or developing a project can be difficult, but with the help of a research database like JSTOR all the information accessed is written by experts in their field. They are credible so...
instaGrok.com - 1 views
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Instagrok is a great tool to use with students who are learning how to conduct online research. Students and teachers can access this application on any device. Teachers can create free student accounts and their own dashboard to assign tasks, provide search guidelines, and monitor student progress. To access all of the dashboard features, there is a relatively affordable yearly subscription. Through customized searches, students are able to read and assess information, take notes, create concept maps, and cite sources. Instagrok can also help students to collaborate on group projects and develop critical reading skills while collecting information for papers and assignments.
Data USA - 0 views
Provides reliable centralized access to US government data from such sources as the US Census Bureau and the US Department of Labor. Provides numbers as well as infographics that put data into a mo...
Google Search Education - 1 views
Google Search Education promotes information and media literacy in classrooms by offering pre-made lesson plans, an archive of webinars, online courses, and the "A Google a Day Challenge." These f...
Information & Media Literacy - 2 views
As students begin research, it's helpful to consider just how much the internet has to offer. Do them (and yourself) a favor by learning to research efficiently using keywords and phrases: https://...
Wisemapping for collaborative work, brainstorming, research, studying, etc. - 0 views
Wisemapping is a free, web based tool that allows users to quickly and easily create a “mind map” without a login or account. Suggested uses for students could include brainstormin...
iSEEK - 2 views
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Looking for an educational search engine? Use iSeek to find safe and trustworthy sources when researching on the Internet!
https://www.gutenberg.org - 0 views
Project Gutenberg, a non-profit organization, is a collection of publicly available literacy. A resource available to people for contributions and research. This project is growing and I would inco...
ikeepsafe.org - 1 views
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I Keep Safe tracks global trends and issues as a professional non-profit organization. It was established in 2005 by policy leaders, educators, law enforcement, technology experts, public health experts and advocates. The research collects and generates positive resources for all who teach youths how to use new media devices and platforms which promotes safety and good health. Content from iKeepSafe maybe used by teachers or any advocate to communicate and promote digital citizenship and media literacy into local programs. Globally, iKeepSafe helps all countries implement digital citizen and lessons by informing public officials, community members and law enforcement to engage upon the universal codes of conduct.
Scrible - 0 views
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Scrible is a free annotation tool available to users across many platforms, with a fully integrated Google Chrome extension. Simply highlighting information on a current events article about emails, and cross-referencing the ISTE infographic on Digital Citizens, students can come to their own conclusions about the do's and don'ts of being a responsible digital citizen.
Library of Congress - 0 views
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The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution, and it serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 162 million items. The collections include books, sound recordings, motion pictures, photographs, maps, and manuscripts.
Mural - 1 views
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Make remote design work Online brainstorming, synthesis and collaboration. Here, I am using the platform in order to have students critically engage in an information/media literacy lesson aimed at evaluating the credibility/validity of independent and group research.
Popplet - 0 views
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In the classroom and at home, students use Popplet for learning. Used as a mind-map, Popplet helps students think and learn visually. Students can capture facts, thoughts, and images and learn to create relationships between them.