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Savvy Web 2.0 Teens Forge Critical Thinking Skills - 5 views

www.schoollibraryjournal.com/...savvy_web_2.0_teens_forge.csp
shared by Natasha Makucha on 25 Mar 11 - Cached
  • 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,
    • Natasha Makucha
      Natasha Makucha on 10 Apr 11
       
      It makes sense.
  • 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
    • Natasha Makucha
      Natasha Makucha on 10 Apr 11
       
      Great idea!
  • "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."
    • Natasha Makucha
      Natasha Makucha on 10 Apr 11
       
      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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  • Not all teens are enthusiastic users of tools such as Facebook.
    • Natasha Makucha
      Natasha Makucha on 10 Apr 11
       
      I agree
  • teens made decisions on who they connected to and what they shared, after exploring options and reflecting on how these decisions would affect their online experience.
    • Natasha Makucha
      Natasha Makucha on 10 Apr 11
       
      Critical thinking right here!
  • "These tools grow and diversify, and researchers need to catch up to what teenagers are doing online," she says.
    • Natasha Makucha
      Natasha Makucha on 10 Apr 11
       
      The teachers are as good as the researches, since we have to keep up with the teens, and the technologies.
  • Social media tools hold great potential for developing important proficiencies that have to do with communicating and expressing ideas and thoughts, conducting research, and accessing and creating knowledge.
    • Natasha Makucha
      Natasha Makucha on 10 Apr 11
       
      The highest points of critical thinking on Blomm's taxonomy!
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Top 10 Sites for Note Taking by David Kapuler - 0 views

www.techlearning.com/...38184 Web 2.0 Education sticky-notes
shared by Natasha Makucha on 07 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Natasha Makucha on 07 Apr 11
     
    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.
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'Here We Are Now, Entertain Us'-Student Motivation and Technology - 2 views

www.facultyfocus.com/...dent-motivation-and-technology web 2.0 Education social media students
shared by Natasha Makucha on 03 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Natasha Makucha on 03 Apr 11
     
    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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