Professional Development Session Three: Lesson Plan and Associated Technology Tools
PD Session Three ~ Inquiry State - Investigate ~ Now you have collected background information on the topic you are researching, connected your own prior knowledge, formulated questions pertaining to your connections with your content area and student PLP's, and have made your own predictions about how you will best be able to personalize the learning for students. PD Participants will now search for relevant, authoritative, and high quality information. A minimum of 15 resources are to be used. These resources are to be evaluated according to information literacy standards. Digital citizenship and the ethical use of resources will be reviewed. Make predictions, and continue to ask questions, as to determine how you can best help each individual student, personalize their learning. Think about other ways you may be able to make your content connect with PLP's. Teachers will:
Technology Resources for the Third Stage of Inquiry ~ Investigate > Find, evaluate, organize and store information
PD Session Three ~ Inquiry State - Investigate ~ Now you have collected background information on the topic you are researching, connected your own prior knowledge, formulated questions pertaining to your connections with your content area and student PLP's, and have made your own predictions about how you will best be able to personalize the learning for students. PD Participants will now search for relevant, authoritative, and high quality information. A minimum of 15 resources are to be used. These resources are to be evaluated according to information literacy standards. Digital citizenship and the ethical use of resources will be reviewed. Make predictions, and continue to ask questions, as to determine how you can best help each individual student, personalize their learning. Think about other ways you may be able to make your content connect with PLP's. Teachers will:
- Review the technology tools for the third stage of the inquiry process below.
- Choose a digital tool to curate your resources and share this with me by September 30, 2015.
- Read pages 186 - 210 of "Curriculum 21" by Jacobs
- Please answer the discussion questions for the board this week ~ here, and comment on the remarks, of two of your colleagues.
Technology Resources for the Third Stage of Inquiry ~ Investigate > Find, evaluate, organize and store information
- Review ~ How to Conduct an Information Search: Searching for information in a library database and school library catalog are different than search for information on the web. For example, you cannot type in a question and receive and answer to the question. To begin, you will need to use the search engine of both your library catalog and school database. It is in this box that you will enter keywords which are relevant to your research topic. If your keyword search results in too much information, then you may find that you need to perform an advanced search. An advanced search lets you narrow your search by sub-categories, such as by title, author, or subject. A Boolean search lets you search with Boolean expressions or Boolean Operators, which let you focus in even more, such as AND (+), NOT (-), and OR. AND (+) narrows the search by retrieving all the information connected with your search terms. OR will broaden your search by connecting your search terms. NOT will exclude terms or information that are not relevant to your research.
- Click here to access an in-depth explanation of Boolean Operators with visuals.
- View this video to learn more about Boolean Operators. This video does an excellent job of introducing the CRAAP Test. What is the CRAAP Test? First of all CRAAP is an acronym for the criteria that you will need to consider when evaluating your sources, whether they be an internet web-site, books, magazines articles, etc.~ Currency: When was the information published, has it been revised or updated? Do the links work? ~ Relevance: Does the information cover your topic and answer the questions that you have developed? ~ Authority: Who is the author or source of this information? Does he or she have credentials, or any qualifications to be knowledgeable to write about your topic? For example, is the author a university professor, who has done research about your topic? Do you see an "about" tab, where you can find out more about the author? Can you contact the author? ~ Accuracy: Is the information reliable? Where does the information come from, and is there evidence to support the information? Is the information biased in any way? ~ Purpose: What is the purpose of the information? Is it to see something or persuade someone to do something? Is the information fact or propaganda ? Is there bias?
- View this video to learn more about the CRAAP Test for resource evaluation.
- Use this Cornell University Source Evaluation Checklist, as a second way to ensure that the materials you are using, are scholarly, credible, and of high quality.
- Take this online interactive quiz to see if you understand what plagiarism is.
- Copyright: Copyright is a law that protects written documents, movies, paintings, drawings, songs, etc. that someone has produced. The law begins, for the creator, as soon as their creative piece is completed. This video will give you fundamental knowledge on the subject of copyright and fair use. The Copyright Organizer Worksheet will help you keep track of all your sources, and will ensure that you have checked the copyright information, for each and every source you use in your research project.
- Fair Use: Fair Use is a copyright law, which protects you, as a teacher, to use small amounts of information from someone else, as long as you cite where the information is coming from. This link will provide more detailed information for you about the Fair Use Copyright law.
- To help you decide if your actions fall under Fair Use, please use this helpful checklist.
- Use this video to review digital citizenship.
- Use this General Sciences resource webpage to access science information...from simulations, apps and videos, to 3D maps of the universe!
- Use this Open Educational Resources webpage to find information, that will help your students personalize their learning.
- Use the Hathi Trust Digital Library to find digitized books from all over the world!
- Use the Children and Youth in History site, which provides historical information about children and youth worldwide.
- Consider using Teachinghistory.org: Provides access to historical resources for K-12 educators.
- Once you have found relevant, high quality resources you will need to digitally curate them by using LiveBinders, Diigo, Pinterest, or Zotero. LiveBinders is a virtual three ring notebook that you can use to virtually store and organize your digital information. View this screencast to learn how to use LiveBinders.
- Please use this resource for discovering Open Educational Resources.