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Online Research: Powerful Tools to Avoid the Junk


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Today's Projected Outcomes:


1. Commiserate briefly on the status of our students' research skills.
2. Experience the challenge of Internet site credibility.
3. Use three tools that can help sort out core credibility issues.
4. Identify next-step possibilities for integrating these tools into authentic student research.

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Part 1 - What's the Problem?


1. STUDENTS are the digital natives...why don't they already know this stuff?

2. Students may know chunks of skills, but have difficulty generalizing the skills across assignments, disciplines, time, etc.

3. Are our students research "wannabees"?

4. What basic skills do both WE and our STUDENTS need, to evolve our practice, given the data sets "out there"?

5. How are we building authentic practice opportunities on the skills that students need?

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Created at http://www.wordle.netPart 2 - Let's Take a Look-see at the Tip of the Iceberg


Please go to this link on Martin Luther King Resources.

  • Check it out. What are it's pluses and minuses?
  • Go to Google, and search Martin Luther King...where does this site rank, in your search?
  • What do you expect students to be able to do, to determine the credibility of this site?
  • How would you help students build their skills, as they experience sites like these?
NOTE: If you are familiar with this site, please - instead - visit one of the following sites:

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Part 3 - Let's Use a Few Tools...



Here, click MORE, and then choose WEBMASTER SEARCH.


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Part 4 - Ideas about Next Steps...


  • Try embedding scaffolds into your assignments, that require students to prove that they have examined information against standards for basic credibility AND credibility for your discipline. (See sample format below, that I have used in multiple courses.)


  • Check out resources (see pages on left-hand navigation bar).

  • Contribute to the Wiki, to expand our focused Learning Community.

  • Link faculty to Reed Library instructional resources.

  • Meet again - F2F or virtually - to explore more stuff? Schedule another session, to help with those who could not make it to today's meeting.

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NOTES:
  • All original, non-contributed text on this page/site is © 2009, Gradel.
  • Wordle image source: http://www.wordle.net
  • The term "media collage" was derived from this source:
Ohler,J. (2009). Orchestrating the media collage. Educational Leadership, 66(6), 8-13.

So simple even a puppy can do it :)

...tools so cool even a puppy can do it :)


BIG IDEAS


  • How can we help our students mesh pre- and post-digital world languages as they read, research, and write?

  • How can we model and "push" a "media collage" (Ohler, 2009) agenda that empowers students' skills in reading and writing multiple media, integrating them into meaningful, communicative outcomes while they hone their research skills?

  • What skills do WE and OUR STUDENTS need, to evolve our practice?


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