Finding
1. Skim past less helpful info.
2. Use relevant keywords
3. Choose general vs. specific searches
4. Document/curate artifacts from search process
Evaluation
1. For credibility
2. For timeliness
3. For bias
4. For relevance
Citing
1. Understanding rights/copyrights/creative common
2. Use appropriate citation form (MLS, ALA)
Questioning
1. Begin inquiry with relevant question
2. Narrow/Expand inquiry based on process
Info Forms
1. Identify potential sources of info
Question-based learning is a type of inquiry where the learner is guided by forming and refining a guiding question or questions.
What I need to know What I know What others know What’s knowable What’s not knowable What’s most interesting What’s most important (see #1 and #2) How can/should I break this down into learnable bits and piees? Where should I start? How will I know I’ve learned? What should I do with what I learned?
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Choose Topic Worth Knowing Choose Method Of Framing Choose Specific Outcome
It could be argued—and probably argued well—that what a student fundamentally needs to know today isn’t much different than what Tom Sawyer or Joan of Arc or Alexander the Great needed to know. Communication. Resourcefulness. Creativity. Persistence. How true this turns out to be depends on how macro you want to get. If we want…
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