Organizing Information Online
Edutopia posted this:
Seventy-one percent of teens say the Internet is their primary source for information for completing their most recent school project or report.
In relation, TeachClever has come up with 12 ways that we can teach students to organize online the information that they collect while doing research on the internet. It sure beats sitting at the computer with a notebook and index cards.
Here is a bit of their article:
While this doesn’t mean completely eliminating the old methods of research and organization, it does mean that students should be taught how to effectively use the web for research. They are already doing it, so let’s help them do it better. But that’s not the only reason. Accessing information online will only grow in the future, and it will be imperative for their future careers to be able to effectively collect and organize information online.
If you are planning on your students doing any type of research in your class(es), then why not also introduce them to a way to organize that information online? You will not only be targeting language arts standards, but technology standards for information literacy as well. Here are 12 resources for information collection and organization:
Organizing bookmarks and websites. These sites replace Internet Explorer Favorites by allowing users to not only save a favorite site, but to also assign tags to sites and write a small description, all searchable later and accessible from any internet connection.
Read the rest of the article here.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
This may transform teaching as I know it. Thanks for sharing. This article is very eye-opening for me. Wow!