"Knowing how to research and find the information you seek is an important skill. Fortunately, the Internet is a vast font of knowledge. The trick is in using the right tools. Here are a few that can aid learners in their search for answers."
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Eclectic Technology
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Tech tools that assist all students to be independent learners & teachers to become better teachers
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Beth Dichter
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"When we ask students to work with and learn from primary sources, we transform them into historians. Rather than passively receiving information from a teacher or textbook, students engage in the activities of historians — making sense of the stories, events and ideas of the past through document analysis. Use DocsTeach activities for classroom demonstration, as full-class activities, as small-group activities, or as individual in-class or homework assignments. Manage activities in your account. Share both activities you find and those you create with your students on DocsTeach." With many ready-to-use tools for teaching with documents and thousands of primary documents from the National Archives this site is rich with resources... Now available for the iPad - to download free app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/national-archives-docsteach/id513465174?mt=8 
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The Common Core Learning Standards describe the importance of teaching students how to comprehend informational text. They are asked to read closely, make inferences, cite evidence, analyze arguments
Beth Dichter's insight:
There are great websites available for primary source documents and this post looks at six of them. * The National Archives * Docs Teach (a part of the National Archives but geared to teachers organized into periods of history) * Spartacus Educational - a resource for global history * Fordham University - another resource for global history which is organied by periods of history * The Avalon Project - located at Yale this is also geared to global history and includes a database (starting with ancient and midieval documents) as well as links to human rights documents * 'Life Magazine' Photo Archive- through a project with Google and Life you may now search millions of images published in 'Life' by key words or by decades (1860s - 1970s) Additional resources are listed for the iPad (as in free apps) Informational text is an important component of the Common Core. These resources will provide students with the opportunity to look at many great primary source documents, be they text or visual!
Dr. Robin Yap, JD, PhD's curator insight,
September 10, 2013 10:30 AM
How do you determine your primary sources of information? 
Alicia Luke's curator insight,
September 10, 2013 8:06 PM
Resources for educators trying to find primary sources |
Finding great tools for students to use is often overwhelming. This post shares six specific tools as well as two lists from EdShelf. The six tools shown also include a video overview. They are:
* InstaGrok
* Colwiz
* SweetSearch
* DocsTeach
* Boolify
* Scrible
One list from EdShelf includes 18 tools and the other includes 12 tools. The range of tools is applicable for students from elementary school though high school and college.