Beyond the Book: A New Role for Your Students | Edutopia - The Diigo Meta page

• 23 Aug 09
  

  David Cosand

  This article speaks of the importance of teaching our students to be powerful researchers, not simply passive consumers. I like the ideas listed in the "Get Started" section:
  * Create the researcher role as a student assignment.
  * Show students different search engines.
  * Build a search engine for your classroom [such as a Google Custom Search Engine page].

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  Roger Crider

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• 29 Aug 08
  

  Michelle Krill

  ...as a plan to cultivate student creativity and independent thought, starting with how they use the Web.

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• 27 Aug 08
  

  Maddy Covelli

  students at Hinsdale Middle School, in Hinsdale, Illinois, will train to become Web researchers: They'll learn how to unearth scholarly materials from the Internet, search for opposing points of view, and take control of their own education.

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  Darin King

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• 24 Aug 08
  

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• 22 Aug 08
  

  Daniel Sutherland

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  Gerhard Stoltz
  • In August, students at Hinsdale Middle School, in Hinsdale, Illinois, will train to become Web researchers: They'll learn how to unearth scholarly materials from the Internet, search for opposing points of view, and take control of their own education. Tenbusch believes that this part of the school district's pilot program in one-to-one computing is essential for today's students.
  • "When you rely on textbooks, what you're actually doing is taking someone else's opinion for granted instead of developing your own," Tenbusch notes. "There is no reason, even beginning in third and fourth grade, that you can't have kids seek out and find scholarly works, newspaper accounts, or original documentation for any point in history or for any scientific study."
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  • • "Like reading and writing, Web literacy ought to be embedded in every discipline," adds November. This approach, he believes, will lead to more engaging and global assignments.

    • The researcher role lends itself well to social studies, science, and the language arts -- just about any class for which a more complete understanding of a topic is needed. "These are not Google jockeys. They are digital librarians," Tenbusch explains. "The teacher stops being the only educator in the room. You end up with a true collaborative learning environment."

      
      
      

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  Erica Hartman

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• 21 Aug 08
  

  John Evans

  Students learn how to think creatively as Web researchers.

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