"As the search engine that’s become its own verb, Google’s success is difficult to frame.
One of the most telling examples of their gravity in search is how few legitimate competitors they have. (Some would say they have none.)"
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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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"NoodleTools has created easy to use modules for the classroom and home. Use a Show Me© module to enhance your teaching and guide students in information evaluation. What constitutes credible information? How does source type contribute to relevance, authority and point-of-view? How do I evaluate and cite born-digital images and online sources? All modules incorporate common core concepts."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Noodle Tools has a great feature that allows students to learn more about information literacy. They have split this into three sections (quoted from the site): * Starter - Introduce younger researchers to topics of authorship, source type, and the importance of critical thinking and original work. (Geared to elementary and middle school.) * Junior - Build information literacy skills in the developing scholar with added support for a variety of source types and digital literacy skills. (Geared to middle-high school.) * Advanced - Promote research independence through advanced information-evaluation support that covers a broad range of source types. (Geared to high school and college.) Below are the questions asked in the Junior Tool when students look at a webpage. Each page has one of the questions below with additional questions that explore the concept and images of one or more Web pages for students to reference as they consider the questions. * What is a Web page? * What is the difference between a Web Project and a Web site? * How do I evaluate the author? * How do I evaluate the publisher? * Is recent information important to my topic? * How do I evaluate the credibility of the author's arguement? * Which URL should I use? 
Tracy Shaw's curator insight,
June 3, 2013 7:08 PM
Debbie Abilock's work is always thorough! Love it! 
Maria Persson's curator insight,
June 12, 2013 11:38 PM
Absolute must resource if you think teaching our students about academic integrity is important - espcially in the wake of the tsunami of information that we are experiencing! Thanks again Joy Rosario.
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Our Space is a set of curricular materials designed to encourage high school students to reflect on the ethical dimensions of their participation in new media environments. Through role-playing activities and reflective exercises, students are asked to consider the ethical responsibilities of other people, and whether and how they behave ethically themselves online. These issues are raised in relation to five core themes that are highly relevant online: identity, privacy, authorship and ownership, credibility, and participation.
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Students today are hyper connected to information, but do they know how to research? Nope.
Beth Dichter's insight:
Do your students know how to research, to evaluate websites? The Common Core states that college and career ready students should be able to (quoted from the standards): * Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism. * Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. In this post Caitlin Tucker provides a link to a Google form to use with students to demonstrate "their ability to analyze the credibility of resources." She also includes a "silent screencast" that shows the process of making a copy of the form for you to use.
Jaime Parker's curator insight,
July 10, 2013 2:22 PM
I have a friend who teaches English courses at the college level and this is her biggest complaint. She says that the students simply do not know how to research. They don't know how to use databases or how to evaluate websites which seems so crazy to me. I'm not sure why these skills aren't being taught or integrated into every content area. Perhaps too much time is being spent preparing students for standardized testing.
Mayra.Loves.Books's curator insight,
July 10, 2013 7:07 PM
What to expect when librarians are being cut everywhere or stretched so thin to covel 4 schools in one week?
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"Within the classroom, Wikipedia has long been synonymous with words like “untrustworthy,” “fallacious,” and “non-academic.” However, recently I noticed many of my own university professors opening up to the idea of using the resource to double-check facts, and I began seeing it cited more frequently in academic papers, which made me wonder – is Wikipedia improving its image in academia?"
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When you ask students what search engine they use the answer tends to be Google...and their tendency is to look at the first four or five results (this is from my experience with students).
This post provides a look at "innovative ways to use Google search in the classroom...[with] the intended outcome [to be] the students sustained ability to self-direct and manage the search process as the digital universe continues to evolve."
What are some of the ideas? Read below and then click through to the post to learn of others.
* Locate 3 sources of information that support an idea, and rank them in terms of their credibility.
* Have students record immediate but brief think-alouds for why they choose to click on certain search results while skipping others.
* Defend or critique the process of Googleing entire questions (versus simply Googleing key words and phrases).
Consider picking a number of these ideas and using them with students in your class this year...and share with other teachers in your school. It is not only students whom need to upgrade their search skills.