Strategy: Wading Through the Web: Teaching Internet Research Strategies (Ramsey)
Detailed Description: The students will be introduced to a crash course lesson(s) on different types of search engines, how to properly search on the internet, and how to cite those sources.
Practical Application: Students will enter into a discussion centered lesson on how to use different search engines for research. The teacher will guide them through using different search engines, using advanced searches, and determining which articles and websites are credible. They will then be shown how to properly cite internet sources with multiple examples from the internet.
TRAP: This Wading Through the Web strategy was posted on ReadWriteThink.org. It was written by Sarah Dennis-Shaw, a long time elementary teacher with her master’s degree in literacy. This strategy was published by the International Literacy Association, and though it is from 2010 (relatively dated for technology), it is still applicable and needed in classrooms today.
Dennis-Shaw, Sarah. “Wading Through the Web: Teaching Internet Research Strategies.” International Literacy Agency, in ReadWriteThink.org. Retrieved from http://www.readwritethink.org/resources/resource-print.html?id=983.
Strategy: Note-taking (Cornell notes) (Chiles)
Detailed Description: students divide their paper into three parts: a small column for questions and key details on the right, a larger column on the right for taking notes, and a section on the bottom for them to summarize the notes they’ve taken. Students usually use this method of note taking when they are listening to lectures, videos, powerpoints, or readings in class or on their own. They should be taught how to develop these notes before they begin to do them on their own, outside of class. These notes should also be taken up or given feedback on to make sure students are effectively taking notes and understand the concept.
Practical Application: as students are gathering their information for their research papers, they can write Cornell notes for each article. For each article, they can pick out the key points, determine whether the information is credible or not, and use their summaries to avoid plagiarism while integrating the information into their papers. For each article, they would have the questions “how does this information contribute to my topic”, “how do I know this source is credible”, “ what new information does this article give me” on the left side of their paper. On the right side of their paper, they would write notes from what they’ve read from the articles they gathered. Then they’d summarize the article in their own words. By using this strategy, students will be organizing their information before they begin to write. This will allow them to sift through all of the information they don’t need and use the information they do need in their paper.
TRAP: Note-taking is a strategy is one of Marzano’s nine instructional strategies, Robert J. Marzano is a renowned educational researcher. His research-based strategies were cited in articles he co-wrote in 2000 and wrote himself in 2003. They were cited by Dr. Kimberly Tyson, a seasoned educator and literacy consultant who is an advocate for research-based instruction. The intentions of both educators were to help teacher facilitate learning by making them aware of effective research-based strategies.
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