Presented by Brian Housand, PhD
http://brianhousand.com
Arkansas Gifted Conference 2014
Hot Springs, AR
February 2014
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Thanks to ubiquitous digital information devices, finding the answer to most questions is only an Internet search away. Now more than ever, we must teach our students to be critical consumers of the information that they encounter, and we must reinvest ourselves in posing questions that involve application and synthesis.
18. The illiterate of
the 21st Century
will not be those
who cannot read
or write,
but those who cannot
LEARN, UNLEARN
AND RELEARN.
(Toffler, 1970)
19. Research to Build and Present Knowledge
7. Conduct short as well as more sustained research
projects based on focused questions, demonstrating
understanding of the subject under investigation.
8. Gather relevant information from multiple print and
digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of
each source, and integrate the information while
avoiding plagiarism.
9. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts
to support analysis, reflection, and research.
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26. 76%
76% of teachers surveyed “strongly agree” with the assertion that internet search engines have conditioned students to expect to be able to find information quickly and easily.
27. 83%
Agree with the notion that the amount of information available online today is overwhelming to most students.
34. A METHOD TO OUR MADNESS
Proof of Evidence
Determine the Relevance
Note the Ambiguity
Judge with Criteria
Relate
Differentiate Fact from Opinion
Defend
-THINKING SKILLS ACCORDING TO KAPLAN
35. A METHOD TO OUR MADNESS
Proof of E
Evidence
Determine the Relevance
R
Note the Ambiguity
A
Judge with C
Criteria
Relate
Differentiate F
Fiction from T
Truth
Defend
D
71. CC ANCHOR WRITING 6: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and
publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.
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STANDARD FOR 9-10
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or
shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other
information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
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GRADES 11-12
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or
shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments
or information.
86. BLUFF THE INTERNET SEARCHER
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING SITES IS NOT AN INTERNET HOAX?
HOW DO YOU KNOW?
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101. The whole process of
education should
thus be conceived as
the process of
learning to think
through the solution
of real problems.
!
-- John Dewey, 1938
103. We need students to get
more DEEPLY
INTERESTED in things,
more INVOLVED in them,
more ENGAGED in wanting to know,
to have projects that they can
get EXCITED about and work on
over long periods of time,
to be STIMULATED
TO FIND THINGS OUT ON THEIR OWN.
- Gardner