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Creating Successful Research Skills Assignments - PENN
Many students never develop good research skills during their years at Penn. These students are often unaware of research tools or don't understand the expectations of scholarly disciplines. Assignments that teach research skills can help students gain confidence and facility in using research tools, a better understanding of disciplinary criteria, and a sense of how scholars use resources in their research.
Alternative Research Assisgnments
Research papers are a common reason for students to use the library and research tools. However, alternative assignments will also encourage students to utilize knowledge-based resources, think critically, and acquire research knowledge.
TRAILS: Tool for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills
TRAILS is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on sixth and ninth grade standards. This Web-based system was developed to provide an easily accessible and flexible tool for library media specialists and teachers to identify strengths and weaknesses in the information-seeking skills of their students.
ICDL - International Children's Digital Library
The mission of the International Children’s Digital Library Foundation is to excite and inspire the world's children to become members of the global community – children who understand the value of tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas -- by making the best in children's literature available online.
P21 offers free guidance for English teachers
This new resource--a framework that provides teacher-created models for how 21st-century skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity can be incorporated into English classes--is part of P21's effort to create curriculum maps that demonstrate how to teach key 21st-century skills in the classroom.
The Future of Reading - Literacy Debate - Online, R U Really Reading? - Series - NYTimes.com
Children like Nadia lie at the heart of a passionate debate about just what it means to read in the digital age. The discussion is playing out among educational policy makers and reading experts around the world, and within groups like the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association.
Should students be allowed to use Wikipedia as a source? | Edutopia
Is Wikipedia a solid resource, merely a good starting point, or something students should avoid? Tell us what you think!
Learn to Read at Starfall - teaching comprehension and phonics
Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade.
Digital Storytelling Goes to First Grade
Good Readers, a movie produced by first Graders from April Payne's class at Highland Ranch Elementary school was awarded 1st Place in the elementary division of the 2003 iVie Awards Competition, sponsored by the San Diego County Office of Education. Good Readers also won the People's Choice award in the Elementary Category. You can view the awards ceremony and see a list of other Poway award-winning movies at the iVIE site.
Is Google Making Us Stupid? by Nicholas Carr
Carr reflects on what the Internet may be doing to our brains as we change our reading habits.
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