Into the Driver's Seat

The following article is adapted from our upcoming book on future-focused learning. It talks about how to teach learners to build solid research skills for school and for life.
 
How do we help our learners develop research skills that will serve them practically in school and life? Having this set of information location and management abilities in any digital-age survival kit applies equally to students, teachers, and everyday people. In the classroom, we teach it using the process of Information Fluency.

Via Elizabeth E Charles, Dennis Swender

Social bookmarking is the modern student’s research tool. As I share in Reinventing Writing, research and pre-writing helps a student start strong. But how? Here’s your answer: Diigo has a fantastic new outlining tool! Before students write, have them turn in their outlines to you. Also, require that they rephrase their research sources at the point they […]

 

Jim Lerman's insight:

 

My bookmark management site of choice!

Via Sarah McElrath

When searching Google Scholar, you can find the full-text directly by linking your library, get more search options for more detailed searches and more.

Via Elizabeth E Charles

Free webinar with Nicholas Kristof on Oct. 10. Will be archived after the live session.

 

"How can writing change people’s understanding of the world? How can it influence public opinion? How can it lead to meaningful action?

In this post, which accompanies our Oct. 10 webinar, Write to Change the World: Crafting Persuasive Pieces With Help from Nicholas Kristof and the Times Op-Ed Page, we round up the best pieces we’ve published over the years about how to use the riches of The Times’s Opinion section to teach and learn.

We’ve sorted the ideas — many of them from teachers — into two sections. The first helps students do close-readings of editorials and Op-Eds, as well as Times Op-Docs, Op-Art and editorial cartoons. The second suggests ways for students to discover their own voices on the issues they care about. We believe they, too, can “write to change the world.”

Join our webinar (live on Oct. 10 or on-demand after) to learn more, and let us know in the comments how you teach these important skills."

Via Jim Lerman, Mary Reilley Clark

Outliner is a great way to organize your research systematically. This new update allows you to insert images into an outliner directly on Diigo website. Here are some features in this update: Choose images from the sidebar and insert them into an outliner Better search in the sidebar panel Expand all annotations in an outliner Don't…

Via Sarah McElrath