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"Embracing Digital Youth (a program of Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use) promotes approaches that will best ensure all young people become “Cyber Savvy” and address youth risk in a positive and restorative manner" (Embracing Digital Youth, ¶1, 2012.05.14).
in list: Internet safety
"The Horizon Project Navigator is a dynamic social media platform that allows users to fully exploit the Horizon Project's extensive collection of relevant articles, research, and projects related to emerging technology and its applications worldwide" (What is Navigator, ¶1, 2012.05.11).
in list: Educational Technology
"... The project described in this digest was designed with the belief that teacher professional growth can best be fostered through sustained collaborative inquiry between teachers and researchers. It has set out to incorporate what is known about quality professional development with the special features necessary for meeting the needs of English language learners. The project has defined a model of sheltered instruction based on the research of best practices, as well as on the experiences of the participating teachers and researchers..." (¶1).
in list: Teacher Education, Educational Measurement
On this site, the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub (University of California Humanities Research Institute) "aggregate[s] news, research, opinion and info for those working at the intersection of learning, technology, and youth" (2012.03.07).
in list: Educational Technology
"This site is for you to share the video you use to support your teaching, learning and research, and find video that others have found useful" (About this Site, 2011.11.23). The site curates links rather than hosting media.
in list: Teacher Education
Coiro, Julie. (2005). Making sense of online text. <i>Educational Leadership 62</i>(2), 30-35. Retrieved September 21, 2011, from http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/oct05/vol63/num02/Making-Sense-of-Online-Text.aspx
"Four challenges face students as they use Internet technologies to search for, navigate, critically evaluate, and synthesize information. Here ... [Coiro] pose[s] each challenge as a question and suggest a corresponding activity that models effective strategies to help students meet that challenge" (A New Kind of Literacy, ¶3).
in list: Information Literacy, Teacher Education
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Four challenges face students as they use Internet technologies to search for, navigate, critically evaluate, and synthesize information. Here I pose each challenge as a question and suggest a corresponding activity that models effective strategies to help students meet that challenge.
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The following strategy lesson invites students to stop, think, and anticipate where important information about a Web site's content might be found
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"Carol Dweck says colleges could improve their students' learning if they relentlessly encouraged them to think about their mental skills as malleable, rather than as properties fixed at birth" (David Glenn, May 9, 2010).
in list: Teacher Education
Wheeler reports on findings that "Speaking two languages confers lifelong cognitive rewards that spread far beyond the improved ability to communicate" (¶1), and "The chief benefit of being bilingual is stronger 'executive control,' ... the chief building block of higher thought" (¶5).
Wheeler, David L. (2011). Being bilingual: beneficial workout for the brain. <i>Chronicle of Higher Education</i>, Research: February 20, 2011. Retrieved August 19, 2011. from http://chronicle.com/article/Being-Bilingual-Beneficial/126462/
in list: Brain Matters
Highlights weaknesses in collections and uses of library resources
in list: Information Literacy
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The ultimate purpose is to prepare students to develop a habit of finding evidence and reasoning from it, which involves being thoughtful about both the search process and sources encountered as our graduates go forth to think for themselves.
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It turns out the databases we use are more likely to include content from mega-corporations that from societies or universities, and the content of over 40% of the new journals was available in only a very few libraries, so even if a database identified a citation, it wouldn’t be accessible to most library users. Many open access journals would be available – just not discoverable through library tools.
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Euromonitor International. (2010). The Benefits of the English Language for Individuals and Societies: Quantitative Indicators from Cameroon, Nigeria, Rwanda, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Retrieved July 7, 2011, from http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/Euromonitor%20Report%20A4.pdf
in list: Global Education
Lotbinière highlights a Euromonitor report for the British Councl representing "data from five target countries: three with linguistic links to Britain through colonialism, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Pakistan, and two with a stronger French-language colonial legacy, Cameroon and Rwanda" (¶3, retrieved 2011.07.07).
Lotbinière, Max de. (2011). Research backs English as key to development. Guardian Weekly, July 5, 2011. Retrieved July 7, 2011, from: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/jul/05/research-backs-english-language-delotbiniere
in list: Global Education
Flowchart for "Developing Research Questions and Proposal Preparation" (top level entry)
in list: Research Methods
"The Purdue OWL offers global support through online reference materials and services" (Mission, ¶1, 2011.05.10).
in list: Writing
Warschauer, M., & Healey, D. (1998). Computers and language learning: An overview. <i>Language Teaching, 31</i>, 57-71.
in list: Educational Technology
In light of recent human disasters in Japan, this post explores media literacy. It explains and illustrates how news media have changed, why and how media are conveying the content that they do, and how to evaluate information and opinions from a wide variety of readily available sources.
in list: Media Literacy
Resource "links for students to use" as they move from traditional reading, to critical reading, and on to critical literacy
in list: Global Education
". . . some of the lesser-known Google products that teachers should know about" (Richard Byrne, 2010.08.16, para. 1, retrieved 2011.04.10)
in list: Tech. Tools
Points out various resources from and including the <a href="blog.evernote.com">Evernote Blog</a> with its Education Series, but overlooks the <a href="http://diigo.com/0gkx7">terms of service</a>
in list: Educational Technology
Ward, Janelle. (2009). Rewriting research. <i>The Broker 15</i>, 12-18. Retrieved February 21, 2011, from http://www.thebrokeronline.eu/en/Special-Reports/Special-report-Social-academia/Rewriting-research
Source of recast: Online Collaborative Writing: How Blogs And Wikis Are Changing The Academic Publishing Process
Link: http://www.masternewmedia.org/online-collaborative-writing-how-blogs-and-wikis-are-changing-the-academic-publishing-process/
in list: Online Collaboration, Writing
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Above all, to be successful, a wiki needs constant maintenance. ‘Group buy-in’ and ‘collective adoption’ are essential, which means that all members of the group must share an enthusiasm to make regular contributions.
In contrast with academic blogs, where the identity of the main contributor is clear, wikis tend to downplay individual identity in favour of the group. They also feature research that often places equal value on academic and non-academic perspectives.
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Above all, to be successful, a wiki needs constant maintenance. ‘Group buy-in’ and ‘collective adoption’ are essential, which means that all members of the group must share an enthusiasm to make regular contributions.
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