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Verdugo, Renato; Barros, Leonardo; Albornoz, Daniela; Nussbaum, Miguel; McFarlane, Angela – Educational Technology & Society, 2014
Searching online is one of the most powerful resources today's students have for accessing information. Searching in groups is a daily practice across multiple contexts; however, the tools we use for searching online do not enable collaborative practices and traditional search models consider a single user navigating online in solitary. This paper…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Uses in Education, Online Searching, Cooperative Learning
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Alvarez, Patricia – History Teacher, 2008
Biography has a proven track record of exciting interest in historical events. Barbara Tuchman used it extensively in her best-selling histories, considering it a "vehicle to carry the larger subject," something that "encompasses the universal in a particular... representative." Others favor biography because it "humanizes history," "personalizes…
Descriptors: Biographies, Role Playing, Class Activities, Student Attitudes