The last two weeks I’ve worked with about 18 sophomore pre-AP classes who are in the midst of research papers on electronic privacy and intellectual freedom. After conversations with the teachers, I developed a lesson to involve the students in website evaluation–because particularly with this topic, I knew they’d be running across many points of [...]
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Articulating our learning
March 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Research, Student projects, Web 2.0
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Do we care what they say?
February 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Research, Student projects, Teacher Learner
Funny the little moments of serendipity that lead from one thought to one another, and lead us to see something in a new light. This morning, someone on Twitter reminded me of a blog post I wrote a long time ago, “How Long Does it Have to be?” about how students focused on the length [...]
Shifting the print paradigm
November 25th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Research, Web 2.0
In his excellent blog post, “What’s ‘Print’?” Bud the Teacher poses a question that we as librarians confront every day as the nature of information sources changes, and one that I personally struggle with. It’s a must read post for every librarian(and English teacher, I might add!) His post encapsulates the research dilemma very accurately: [...]
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Are databases dead?
March 2nd, 2009 · 3 Comments · Research, Search tools, Web 2.0
I’m going to be blunt in this post. Databases are dead. (Okay, maybe that is a bit dramatic.) And who would mourn their loss? What value do they add to our internet experience? Both Joyce Valenza and I (and I’m sure scores of other librarians) have probably written similar posts in the past asking database [...]
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Finding daisies in the pasture
May 6th, 2008 · No Comments · libraries, Research
In his inimitable style, Doug Johnson posed a research question that I’m pondering this evening– “Is requiring print resources a sacred cow that needs to be put out to pasture?” My initial response(from his site) was that: “I have very mixed feelings about this. It feels somewhat artificial sometimes to say “one print source” but [...]
The “Frude” problem
March 29th, 2008 · 3 Comments · libraries, Research
I failed some teachers the other day. I failed to recognize a potential problem ahead of time and didn’t dedicate my best practices towards resolving it. After the fact, I realized it was a difficulty I see with research assignments fairly often. (Even when I do recognize the difficulty ahead of time, it’s not always something I [...]
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What changes we face
March 21st, 2008 · 4 Comments · Research, Web 2.0
How are libraries changing? Well, since my library is in boxes, it’s a question I think about a lot. Today a teacher across the street emailed me (and then Skyped) a reference question, which I knew was in a book that we had packed. So, like an intrepid journalist, I followed up online, checked many [...]
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How about some wheat bread?
January 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Research
Professor Tara Brabazon of the University of Brighton is concerned about student uses of Google and Wikipedia. She is giving an upcoming lecture in Brighton which piqued my interest, entitled “Google is White Bread for the Mind.” While I am always amazed by Google, and by no means go so far as she does(banning students [...]
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Desperately seeking engagement
January 6th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Research
A chance plea from a parent and colleague Brian Smith on Twitter today led to a long discussion online about the research process and how it could be so much more meaningful for students than it is. Smith was struggling to work with his 14 year old to generate a research topic. The assignment the student [...]
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Good enough?
September 12th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Future students, Research
How do students choose their sources? After finishing the video I created about ”authority of sources” I have come to the conclusion one thing I’d like to know more about is how students make those choices, so I can include their thoughts in the video as well. So I’ve been talking to students when they’ve been [...]
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