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Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path
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Literacy in a digital education world and peripheral issues.
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Elizabeth E Charles
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It can be hard to make sense of an education research paper and there are certainly those who think teachers shouldn’t worry their pretty little heads about them. Yet if we intend to claim our profession back from quixotic consultants then it’s something that more of us need to do. 
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In the 21st century, ample personalized learning opportunities make it possible to learn about subjects through video, audio, infographics and more. When writing a research paper, take it a step beyond the traditional encyclopedic list of events and create a paper that is enjoyable to write and that others will enjoy reading. The following tips are essential for writing a research paper in the 21st century.
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As a Reference Associate in Business and Government documents at New York University’s Bobst Library, one of my responsibilities includes teaching classes on navigating the library homepage, catalog, databases, and bibliographic tools, such as Refworks. I wanted to increase my teaching skills, therefore I decided to take Instruction and Information Literacy with Professor Clay Willams, who has over 20 years experience in Information Literacy and is currently Deputy Chief Librarian at Hunter College Libraries. Over the semester, I have developed my own teaching philosophy, learned how to assess my audience, examined several teaching theories, and researched numerous library literacy topics.
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In our cut and paste culture, even if it is not actually the case, it sometimes seems that we are being overwhelmed by a plague of plagiarism, not just in academia but in all walks of life (e.g. Scroth, 2012). The current popularity of tools like Turnitin in higher education suggests that what started out as a solution in search of a problem may have opened a Pandora’s box in which our notions of academic honesty and integrity are called into question by the behaviour of our students. In fact, the ubiquity of electronic counter-measures have given rise to counter-counter-measures (e.g. Rogerson & McCarthy, 2017) which make marking essays more of an exercise in forensic science rather than an educational process.
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Professors at Northwestern University are training students to build online identities that can advance their academic and professional careers.
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Imagine a tool that encourages students to evaluate, appreciate, consider, review, question their sources. Imagine a tool that encourages people to contribute to a global source of information. Ima...
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