The Ethical Researcher: Big Ideas of Notemaking and Notetaking There are 4 phases of notemaking and notetaking. By mapping these phases to the information literacy process (Building Blocks of Research), we teach the intellectual, creative and ethical use of information school-wide and assure that all students can find, understand, evaluate, and use information in various forms to create and contribute for personal, social or global purposes. Phase 1: Prepare for notetaking The first phase maps to the early stages of engaging and defining the information literacy process. What are students doing? What big ideas should I teach? Examples To evoke prior knowledge and investment: "What do you know? Phase 2: Organize for notetaking The second phase occurs during the planning and locating stages of the information literacy process. What are students doing? What big ideas should I teach? To gather, organize and refine search terms: Cluster and refine To preassess the value of sources: "RATE No Wasted Work!" Phase 3: Design and use notes as thinking tools
50 of the Most Dependable Web Resources for University Students | Educhoices.org Knowing where to turn for facts, handy web apps and other types of resources can make student life a lot easier. Read on for a list of 50 of the most useful and dependable online resources for college and university students. Research Resources The Internet is a great place to find information and check facts--if you know where to go. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. Free Web Apps Time is a precious commodity for college and university students. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. del.icio.us - There are lots of bookmarking tools on the web, but del.icio.us is one of the best. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 30 Boxes - Possibly the most convenient online calendar in the world, 30 Boxes is the ultimate solution for students who need to keep track of dates, activities and tasks without a whole lot of fuss. 46. 47. 48.
Research and Citation If you are having trouble locating a specific resource please visit the search page or the Site Map. Conducting Research These OWL resources will help you conduct research using primary source methods, such as interviews and observations, and secondary source methods, such as books, journals, and the Internet. This area also includes materials on evaluating research sources. Using Research These OWL resources will help you use the research you have conducted in your documents. APA Style These OWL resources will help you learn how to use the American Psychological Association (APA) citation and format style. MLA Style These OWL resources will help you learn how to use the Modern Language Association (MLA) citation and format style. Chicago Manual of Style This section contains information on the Chicago Manual of Style method of document formatting and citation. American Medical Association (AMA) Style
Using Google Search Operators You can use most of the options we discussed in Google’s Advanced Search Form in a regular search box query. If you’re a frequent searcher or a “power searcher,” this can save time because you don’t need to open the Advanced Search page and fill in various boxes; instead, you can enter the refined query in almost any Google search box. You’ll use advanced operators, query words that have special meaning to Google. Since the advanced operators are convenient for searching, Google Guide calls them search operators. Note: We recommend that you skip ahead to the Part Understanding Results unless you’re an experienced Google user or you want to know how to use Google’s advanced operators. 1. Here are three places you can find examples of search operators. Visit the Google Guide Advanced Operator Quick Reference and look for special operators of the form operator:value.Fill in Google’s Advanced Search form. Read through the descriptions below and try the examples. 2. 4. 4.1. 4.2.
wordIQ.com - Search for Knowledge Learning theory: models, product and process Photo by Antenna on Unsplash Contents: introduction · what do people think learning is? · learning as a product · learning as a process · experience · reflective thinking · making connections · committing and acting · task-conscious or acquisition learning, and learning-conscious or formalized learning · the behaviourist orientation to learning · the cognitive orientation to learning · the humanistic orientation to learning · the social/situational orientation to learning · the constructivist/social constructivist orientation to learning · further reading · references · how to cite this article See, also, What is education? Over the last thirty years or so, ‘learning’ has become one of the most used words in the field of education. Adult education became lifelong learning; students became learners, teachers facilitators of learning; schools are now learning environments; learning outcomes are carefully monitored. There has been a similar situation in the field of education. Taxonomies
The Information Literacy Game Players take turns moving around the board, answering questions. There are four categories, and two questions must be answered correctly from each category in order to win. The Categories are: Category 1 - Choose Your Resource Category 2 - Searching/Using Databases Category 3 - Cite Your Sources/Avoid Plagiarism Category 4 - Library Wild Card As you answer a question correctly from each category, you will receive a light corresponding to the color of the category. On the Home Stretch, you must answer a question from each category correctly in order to advance a space. There are 3 special squares you can land on: Light Bulb: This space will ask you to compare two different websites, or evaluate one website for different kinds of information. Single Person Play Single play is much like the group game, with two additions. Keyboard Commands D - Roll the die to start the next player's turnH - Opens/closes the Help WindowS - Toggles game sounds on or off1-4 - Select the correct answer to questions
Welcome to Project Gutenberg Constructivist Learning Constructivist Learning by Dimitrios Thanasoulas, Greece Only by wrestling with the conditions of the problem at hand, seeking and finding his own solution (not in isolation but in correspondence with the teacher and other pupils) does one learn. ~ John Dewey, How We Think, 1910 ~ As a philosophy of learning, constructivism can be traced to the eighteenth century and the work of the philosopher Giambattista Vico, who maintained that humans can understand only what they have themselves constructed. Within the constructivist paradigm, the accent is on the learner rather than the teacher. If a student is able to perform in a problem solving situation, a meaningful learning should then occur because he has constructed an interpretation of how things work using preexisting structures. personal involvement; learner-initiation; evaluation by learner; and (see