ED 262 Research, Reference & Resource Skills

Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education.

 

Below is a collection of some good resources curated specifically for academics and research students. It contains academic search engines, iPad apps, guides on academic writing, and research methodology textbooks. The purpose is to empower researchers with the tools and resources to help them make the best of their research endeavours. 

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I have an extensive collection of materials at The Best Tools & Lessons For Teaching Information Literacy – Help Me Find More.

 

Yesterday, I learned through Alexander Russo of an excellent addition to the list: Poynter, the very respected journalism organization, has created an online collection called UnNews: An index of unreliable news websites.

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Google Scholar crawls the worldwide web for scholarly articles and research so that you don’t have to.

Scholarly Googlebots relentlessly scour the Internet for academic and peer-reviewed resources that fit your topic search and leave you with more time for analysis, writing your thesis and sharing the results with your classes and peers.

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I’m in love with Listen Notes, a new-ish podcast search tool. Listen Notes makes is so easy to find just the right podcast content for whatever you’re interested in. It currently indexes over 430,000 podcasts and over 26 million individual episodes.

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Information literacy is the set of skills needed to find, retrieve, analyze, and use information and is the basis for lifelong learning. It is common to all disciplines, learning environments, and education levels. It enables learners to master content, extend their investigations, become more self-directed, and to take greater control of their own learning.

The five core information literacy competencies are the ability to:

identify needed information.
access information effectively & efficiently.
evaluate information.
use information appropriately.
understand information related issues.

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