a handful of 14-year-old girls in a pilot study used critical thinking skills
independently online. "How teenagers use Web 2.0 tools has huge implications for
teaching critical thinking skills," says Ronda,
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Savvy Web 2.0 Teens Forge Critical Thinking Skills - 5 views
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It makes sense.
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Students can even collaborate on writing a Wikipedia article on a topic they're studying to see how the process of peer writing and editing works
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Great idea!
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"These conversations and activities can be really important, and can teach students valuable critical skills: how to find information online, how to examine the accuracy and source of information they find online, and how to be not only consumers of information, but active participants in creating it."
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Finding information on-line is a learned skill of knowledge. Examining the accuracy and source of information is one of the highest critical thinking skills, which develops with time, experience, and rich schemata.
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Top 10 Sites for Note Taking by David Kapuler - 0 views
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Taking notes is an everyday skill in education but often overlooked. Technology -- and more specifically, the Internet -- has rendered paper and pencil passé and allowed educators and students to raise note-taking to the next level. Most of the following sites use some form of the "post-it" or "sticky," but with the integration of Web 2.0 technologies.
'Here We Are Now, Entertain Us'-Student Motivation and Technology - 2 views
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Social media can be a wonderful way to generate student engagement in learning, but still must be introduced in a way that will excite students to participate.
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