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Direct linkWiggins, Alexis – Educational Leadership, 2014
Skills in communication and collaboration can be just as important as content knowledge and technical skills in the workplace. So what are schools doing to foster these skills? English language arts teacher Alexis Wiggins adapted the Socratic seminar model to make it student-led and collaborative. Under her new approach, the Spider Web…
Descriptors: High School Students, Recall (Psychology), Cooperation, Communication Skills
Download full textBarbour, Michael; Siko, Jason; Sumara, JaCinda; Simuel-Everage, Kaye – Qualitative Report, 2012
Despite a large increase in the number of students enrolled in online courses, published research on student experiences in these environments is minimal. This article reports the narrative analysis of a series of interviews conducted with a female student at a brick-and-mortar school enrolled in a single virtual school course. Her narratives…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Online Courses, Educational Opportunities
Adam, Anna; Mowers, Helen – School Library Journal, 2008
There are a lot of useful tools on the Web, all those social applications, and the like. Still most people go online for one thing--to perform a basic search. For most fact-finding missions, the Web is there. But--as media specialists well know--the sheer wealth of online information can hamper efforts to focus on a few reliable references.…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Media Specialists, Internet, Students
Journell, Wayne – Social Education, 2009
One of the primary goals of social studies education in the United States is to prepare students for civically active, politically informed, and socially engaged democratic citizenship. Too often, however, the curricula fall short of this goal. Textbooks and state curriculum standards tend to portray citizenship as a static concept rather than an…
Descriptors: Propaganda, Textbooks, Democracy, Elections
Darrow, Rob – Library Media Connection, 2005
The advent of Internet has lead to increase in the number of available sources in the library media centers, which earlier depended on reference books, encyclopedia and a nonfiction book. The advantage of the web includes easier access to primary sources, original journals, interviews, TV transcripts, video interviews, and newspaper articles.
Descriptors: Reference Materials, Search Engines, Information Seeking, School Libraries
Peer reviewedGunn, Holly – Teacher Librarian, 2005
Become a Goggle Power User was developed for incoming students in Sackville High School, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 2003, and has been adapted for use in other local schools and in several universities, it is an instructional program designed for first-year high school students that was integrated into the English Language Arts curriculum, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Freshmen, Internet, Search Engines
