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nickyforest

Conducting Research-based Projects in Elementary Grades with Safety in Mind -- THE Journal - 1 views

  • elementary school students choose to conduct research for school projects.
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      How elementary school students choose to conduct research is a big question mark.
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      A great article on elementary school student research.
  • Fortunately, there are best practices for teachers to adopt and safe websites for learners to visit, which she shares here with THE Journal.
  • Did the students have a list of safe sites to use for their research, appropriate for their grade level
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      Students did not have a list of approved websites that were appropriate for their use.
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  • She and her mom were proud that she had done her own research. When she said that she got her information from Wikipedia, I suggested that she might wish to include her source on the project, but she did not want to. She did not know if she would be presenting the project to her classmates.
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      Research from a 3rd grader was done using only Wikipedia and that was not cited on her research project.
  • My concern was not just about the credibility of using Wikipedia for academic purposes. The reading level was too advanced for a typical third-grader. Researchers (Anderson, 2012) have found the overall readability of numerous Wikipedia articles too difficult for many readers.
    • nickyforest
       
      Wikipedia is not written at a 3rd grade level, or for any elementary student for that matter.
  • How is the research process introduced to elementary students, particularly for using the internet? Are learners provided an age-appropriate online tutorial? Is there a standards document indicating skills that students should be developing in elementary grades for using technology to conduct research?  What guidelines/templates are students provided for developing their projects? Are they provided a checklist/rubric for how projects would be graded? Who sees their projects?  How do you make parents aware that their children will be doing internet research and that their children’s “online safety” has been considered?
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      What are the guidelines for elementary school student research. These six questions were asked of teachers in two different states.
  • elementary learners can hop on the Research Rocket at the online portal Kentucky Virtual Library: How to Do Research and find an interactive and engaging tutorial designed just for them. Content might also benefit classroom lessons and discussions, particularly in K–2 when
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      School districts in Kentucky have a virtual library where students can learn about how to do research.
  • ibrary media specialists in the School District of New Berlin (WI) developed a series of research guides and templates, organized by grade-bands. Templates for grades 4 to 6 combine a checklist or rubric.  Lankau, Parrish, Quillin and Schilling (2004) developed the Research Project Guide: A Handbook for Teachers and Studentsfor Humble Independent School District in Texas.
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      LMS staff in Wisconsin and Texas have organized templates, rubrics and checklists to help students with their research.
  • Symbaloo, a social bookmarking tool, for this purpose. The Elementary Research Guide focuses on the Super 3 and Big 6 research models for grades K–2 and 3 to 5, respectively. Presentations on the Super 3 and Big 6 models, posted on Slideshare.net, illustrate that educators value both models.  
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      Resources for research projects also include Symbaloo, Super 3 and Big 6 which are readily available to students and teachers.
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    Some real examples of research done wrong while highlighting how much research skills need to be taught, starting in elementary school.
Nathan Gingras

Educational Leadership:Giving Students Meaningful Work:Seven Essentials for Project-Bas... - 1 views

  • A project is meaningful if it fulfills two criteria. First, students must perceive the work as personally meaningful, as a task that matters and that they want to do well. Second, a meaningful project fulfills an educational purpose. Well-designed and well-implemented project-based learning is meaningful in both ways.
  • Teachers can powerfully activate students' need to know content by launching a project with an "entry event" that engages interest and initiates questioning. An entry event can be almost anything: a video, a lively discussion, a guest speaker, a field trip, or a piece of mock correspondence that sets up a scenario.
  • A good driving question captures the heart of the project in clear, compelling language, which gives students a sense of purpose and challenge.
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  • In terms of making a project feel meaningful to students, the more voice and choice, the better.
  • A project should give students opportunities to build such 21st century skills as collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and the use of technology, which will serve them well in the workplace and life. This exposure to authentic skills meets the second criterion for meaningful work—an important purpose. A teacher in a project-based learning environment explicitly teaches and assesses these skills and provides frequent opportunities for students to assess themselves.
  • Formalizing a process for feedback and revision during a project makes learning meaningful because it emphasizes that creating high-quality products and performances is an important purpose of the endeavor. Students need to learn that most people's first attempts don't result in high quality and that revision is a frequent feature of real-world work.
  • In addition to providing direct feedback, the teacher should coach students in using rubrics or other sets of criteria to critique one another's work. Teachers can arrange for experts or adult mentors to provide feedback, which is especially meaningful to students because of the source.
  • When students present their work to a real audience, they care more about its quality. Once again, it's "the more, the better" when it comes to authenticity. Students might replicate the kinds of tasks done by professionals—but even better, they might create real products that people outside school use.
leahammond

Standard Digital News : : Lifestyle - 6,000 primary schools picked for free laptop project - 0 views

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    "6,000 primary schools picked for free laptop project"
Lisa Young

What Is the Point of a Makerspace? | Cult of Pedagogy - 0 views

    • Lisa Young
       
      This would be a very exciting way to work on the concepts of surface area, volume, etc...
  • The Tiny House Project
  • “(When a task is) meaningful to students, and they’re engaged in creative thinking, and they’re solving problems, and it’s hands-on, then in those moments, there’s not an incentive to rebel and act crazy.”
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      This is incredibly true! I just find it hard to coordinate projects like these on a regular basis with so many students. Not to say that I can't. Maybe with practice, it will come more easily.
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  • teaches online courses
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      Some great online courses that might be worth taking!
  • The Tiny House Project
    • Lisa Young
       
      This would be another great way to work on area, surface area, and volume. Students currently design cereal boxes, but this could be a great choice!
  • “(When a task is) meaningful to students, and they’re engaged in creative thinking, and they’re solving problems, and it’s hands-on, then in those moments, there’s not an incentive to rebel and act crazy.”
    • Lisa Young
       
      So, so true! I find when I do meaningful projects, behavior is much better. However, it is hard to manage doing these projects all the time. With that said, maybe it gets easier with practice.
  • on-demand webinar
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      a webinar to remember
Nathan Gingras

How to Reinvent Project Based Learning to Be More Meaningful | MindShift - 1 views

  • If PBL is to become a powerful, accepted model of instruction in the future, a vocabulary change may be in order — preferably to the term project based inquiry.
  • 1. Put PBL on a continuum of inquiry.
  • 2. Blend surface knowledge and deeper learning.
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  • 3. Start with a sophisticated student-centered culture.
  • 4. Make collaboration as powerful in school as it is in life.
  • 5. Understand that PBL cannot be done alone.
Jen Reeve

Project Disco - 0 views

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    The Disruptive Competition Project (DisCo) is a project to promote disruptive innovation and competition to policymakers. Plenty of other groups in DC defend incumbent industries and protect the status quo; DisCo brings together experts to explain how disruptive change in the modern economy promotes growth and advances our society.
cwjohnstone

Johnstone Change Project EDCI325 - 8 views

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    My outliner with links to resources for my change project.
nickyforest

Doing Internet Research at the Elementary Level | Edutopia - 0 views

  • Doing Internet Research at the Elementary Level
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      Great article on doing internet research with elementary school students.
    • nickyforest
       
      A great article about doing internet research with elementary school students.
  • eaching research skills in third grade -- just at the time where my students' reading skills are such that they can feel successful and just at the time when they have mounds and mounds of natural curiosity. In the
    • nickyforest
       
      Third grade seems to be the most common grade to start some authentic research skills. I know 2nd grade teachers that start with an animal project in a limited way to get students thinking about how to look at information.
  • Your parents said you can have any pet you want. What will you need to keep the pet?")
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      This teacher of 3rd graders changed up the project her students did to this fun question.
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  • SweetSearch search engine, which weeds out the junk they usually find on Google or Bing and which highlights their keywords and pulls text from the website into the list of search results.
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      Good search engine to use with elementary students
  • My older students will be using EasyBib to organize their links and their notes. While my third graders will not be doing true citation yet, I will be teaching citation to my seventh graders and requiring all of their projects to be accompanied by a bibliography, which they will create in EasyBib.
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      Older students will use EasyBib to do citations, but 3rd grade will not.
  • The SweetSearch Tutorial: Not only is SweetSearch an amazing search tool for kids, but they have some great resources here for helping digest what research is and how to approach it. Copyright Confusion Wiki: A one-stop shop for all things copyright and fair use. How to Do Research Another take on the research process from the Kentucky Virtual Library. Diigo for Educators A robust social bookmarking tool through which students can bookmark sites, highlight right on the site, share bookmarks with their peers and take notes on webpages. Teachers can create student accounts without needing emails. SweetSearch A kid-friendly search engine. EasyBib A robust online citation and organizing tool. Flickr Find copyright-free images with Creative Commons licenses. Search Creative Commons Find Creative Commons content on popular sites.Filed Under
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      more resources
    • nickyforest
       
      Some other great resources from the article.
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    Story of lessons learned from one tech teacher's annual research unit, done exclusively online. Uses a variety of tech tools for research.
mjheald

College Students Don't Know How To Research, Study Shows - 0 views

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    According to a new report released by Project Information Literacy, college students do not know how to research correctly. The study, which surveyed 8,353 students from 25 colleges, reports that 84 percent of respondents found "getting started" to be the hardest part of research projects.
lstormvt

Elementary School Leadership and PBL | Project Based Learning | BIE - 0 views

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    A principal relates how his elementary school is transforming itself to a PBL school. An interesting take: his role is that of a teacher guiding his staff through their PBL project: transforming their teaching!
kaliasnow

Alex Corbitt - 1 views

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    Highlights Alex Corbitt's projects for educational technology and gamification.
Chelsea Turley

SOPHIA and the Flipped Classroom - 0 views

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    This will be helpful for me as I continue my pitch for change project. However, if anyone else is interested in Flipped classroom resources- this looks like it could be helpful. 
Edith Fogarty

BESchool Technology Integration: Organizing Shared Files in Google Drive - 0 views

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    My Professional Development Project showing teachers who to create folders to facilitate sharing documents in Google Drive.
Jen Reeve

Wi-Fi Zones and Hotspots - 0 views

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    More Wi-Fi Projects Take Shape Thanks to Collaboration with the VTA One of the most exciting services that we are delivering through the Vermont Digital Economy Project is the installation of Wi-Fi zones and hotspots in communities throughout the state. Our goal is to positively impact 25 towns with this...
Jen Reeve

About the Vermont Digital Economy Project - 0 views

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    This is a slideshare that explains how some towns have created free wifi within their towns.
Torey Olson

Projects for My Subject - Google Earth for Educators - 0 views

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    Visit this site to learn all the tips and tricks for using Google Earth as a teaching tool. You can view lesson plans for a variety of grade levels and subjects, discuss Google Earth teaching tactics with fellow educators, see student-created work, and read how other teachers are using Google Earth in the classroom.
Emily Wood

TCEA Responds: Beginner's Guide to Classroom iPads * TechNotes Blog - 0 views

  • they can also amplify student voices and their creativity
  • ensure you have a case and screen protector for each device
  • Many school districts take advantage of mobile device management (MDM) solutions
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      We use Meraki
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  • remember to avoid being overly restrictive. Create a culture of care and learning
  • Ask three before me” to encourage students to become reliant on each other
  • Use consistent key phrases to control usage
  • Make posters that summarize guidelines
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      Just like your other classroom rules.
  • Clarify behaviors
    • Emily Wood
       
      Just like everything else you do the first 6 weeks of school. Do guided discover with the iPads and establish rules.
  • “Avoid focusing on apps…focus on what students can create using iPads
  • Instead, focus on projects that deepen reading and writing using blended media (e.g. video/audio)
  • One way to accomplish that includes changing the way you teach to present students with projects and problems that require collaboration, communication, and problem-solving.
    • Emily Wood
       
      PBL!
  • These are simple, powerful ways to engage students. Use them for everything to get students thinking and making their thinking visible. Looking for more ideas? When you are ready, explore Dr. Wesley Fryer’s iPad Media Camp, Playing with Media video collection, Greg Kulowiec’s app smashing concept, and Lisa Johnson’s (@techchef4u) website. Kathy Schrock has a few resources for you, too. When you’re ready to buy apps, let me know. Green screen is one area you need to investigate more.
    • Emily Wood
       
      So many more resources here.
  • Seesaw (Free):
  • This is the TOP, must-have app to have in your classroom.
    • Emily Wood
       
      I agree!
Hannah Fjeld

ISTE 3: Teaching Research Using the Big6 Model - techy becky librarian - 1 views

  • surprisingly few number of schools have a comprehensive information literacy program. They found that many programs are “irregular, partial, and arbitrary” (Eisenberg, 2011, pg. 10)
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      Here's the problem.
  • incorporating the skills into the students’ classroom curriculum
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      Collaboration and a cohesive approach is key.
  • super-speed lesson
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      This is often the problem---when the model comes from the library and isn't the norm in all classrooms, it has to be presented super quickly and is not reinforced regularly.
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  • they will be lacking the ability to keep track of what they’ve found and (the hugely important task of) determining if the information is reliable
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      scaffold these skills / have standard worksheets that students can use
  • Providing students will print handouts that help walk them through the final stages of Big6™.
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    Research paper/lesson plan from school librarian on a collaborative project to introduce the Big6 research process model to 6th grade. Reinforces the importance of 1. Teacher buy-in and 2. a comprehensive approach
rledwidge

11 Essentials for Excellent Digital Portfolios | Edutopia - 1 views

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    Great suggestions for keeping the relevance and reflection in portfolios, not just a summative dumping ground for projects.
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