Powerful inquiry using instagrok
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Presented at Teachmeet East Sydney Term 1, 2013.
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- 1. Powerful inquiry research using grok (v): to understand thoroughly and intuitively
- 2. What is
- 3. What the research says ▫ Students are easily overwhelmed by information. ▫ They don’t use nearly enough sources. ▫ They’re unable to judge the credibility of those sources. Pew Research Centre: How do teens do research in the digital world
- 4. Pinned Slider items go determine straight s result Results Search difficulty to box level in many Journal forms Quizzes for Intera understan ctive ding web Some great features
- 5. Accessing • Free • Advantages of a class sub (around $30) ▫ create multiple class groups ▫ track quiz answers ▫ access to student Groks ▫ graph activity • via Edmodo
- 6. so good? Why is
- 7. Three things students are bad at: 1. Students are easily overwhelmed by information 2. They don’t use nearly enough sources. 3. They’re unable to judge the credibility of those sources.
- 9. and Inquiry • helps scaffold students in inquiry. • helps students understand how to search, narrow a topic, use keywords, and evaluate websites. • It is a great
- 10. Demo video It’s that good ... Edudemic predicts that Google will buy Instagrok in under one year!
- 11. Let’s try it out .... http://www.instagrok.com/.
- 12. References: • www.instagrok.com • http://edudemic.com/2012/04/instagrok-the- search-engine-made-just-for-education/ • http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Stu dent-Research.aspx
Editor's Notes
- Learn about any topic by exploring connections between concepts/facts on an interactive concept map, which you can customize and share!“Your Students Don’t Stink at Research: Your Software Does”
- A search engine made just for educationpackaged in a neat interactive formatSearches reveal a whole lot more than a Google search!A discovery and learning website
- in November Pew Research Center released a report called How Teens Do Research in the Digital World. More or less everyone agrees that the internet has made research better; the web exposes students to a world of resources that prior generations could only dream about. And to no one’s surprise, “for today’s students, ‘research’ means ‘Googling.’”However, things aren’t as rosy as they should be. Pew also found that:
- Via Edmodo allows you teachers to assign Edmodo assignments to their students, and students to submit their journal entries as Edmodo assignments.When a teacher installs instaGrok through Edmodo, their Edmodo class is automatically registered in instaGrok, and shows up in the instaGrokteacher dashboard, allowing them to see students’ activity for their class(es), and view/comment on their journals.Students in the Edmodo class can submit their journal as an Edmodo assignment, using the Edmodo button on the journal’s toolbar. This brings up a dialog box, prompting them to select one of the assignments their teacher assigned in Edmodo:
- it is learner friendlyIts a one stop shopIt give access to a variety of mediastudents can ‘pin’ their research in the journal and its referencedIt has a graphic interface for visual learnersIt has the teacher / student connective facilitySearches can broaden and flow to meet the needs of the student questions
- 1. Students are easily overwhelmed by information. Insteadof returning thousands of links (like Google) or a humongous page of text (like Wikipedia), instaGrok displays information as a visual concept map. By clicking on nodes and adjusting the expertise slider, students focus on what’s important to them. 2. They don’t use nearly enough sources. When students use instaGrok, they’re automatically reading information from multiple sources; there’s no need to open up a dozen tabs and plough through duplicated information.3. They’re unable to judge the credibility of those sources. Oftentimes students don’t choose the most trustworthy source because they’re unaware an issue is controversial. Since they only use one or two resources, they aren’t exposed to the full range of opinions. instaGrok makes it simple: multiple POV’s are presented (from numerous websites) in the concept map and key facts. From that point, it’s a matter of clicking through and judging a source’s credibility for oneself.
- We have a focus on inquiry learning, and instaGrok is a great tool to help scaffold students in inquiry.InstaGrok helps students understand how to search, narrow a topic, use keywords, and evaluate websites. It is a great differentiation tool.