This document discusses how internet search engines have conditioned students to expect quick answers, overwhelming them with information. It emphasizes asking important questions and locating, critically evaluating, and synthesizing information to communicate answers. It provides examples of question frames, tools for internet research, and challenges the need to keep education relevant through solving real problems and addressing new models of education.
21. 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.
76%
22. Agree with the notion that the amount of information available online today is overwhelming to most students.
83%
23. Today’s digital technologies discourage students from using a wide range of sources when conducting research.
71%
24.
25. 1) In what year was the first
U.S. postage stamp issued?
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2) Who was on it?
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3) How much did it cost?
26. IDENTIFY Important Questions
LOCATE Information
CRITICALLY EVALUATE
SYNTHESIZE Information
COMMUNICATE Answers
NEW LITERACIES
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72. The whole process of
education should
thus be conceived as
the process of
learning to think
through the solution
of real problems.
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-- John Dewey, 1938