The topic I choose to explore is Digital Literacy – Research Skills. The following websites, blogs, and images have been useful in helping me to learn more about my topic. The keywords for this topic are digital literacy, research skills standards, research skills lessons, research skills teaching strategies, search bar strategies, reliability of the information, note-taking, compiling information, comparing websites, the research process, and forming meaningful questions.
- How to Teach Online Research Skills to Students in 5 Steps (Free eBook and Posters), http://www.kathleenamorris.com/2018/02/23/research-filter/, Kathleen Morris | Primary Tech | Resources to help teachers with technology in the classroom
This website focuses on helping teachers create digitally literate learners. The creator, Kathleen Morris is an Australian tech teacher with 10.7K Twitter followers. Her website explores strategies and techniques for teaching research skills to students. The website offers information on how to use search engines, filter information, use Google effectively, and how to keep your students organized during research activities. She also offers ideas for research skills lessons. The website includes videos about research skills, images for learning how to do research, and information on how to create a slide presentation. The following is an example of images from her website.
primarytech.global2.vic.edu.au/files/2018/11/Flowchart_-How-to-evaluate-websites-Kathleen-Morris-vx3iho.png.
- National Council of Teachers of English. (2013). NCTE Framework for 21st Century Curriculum and Assessment. Accessed from https://cdn.ncte.org/nctefiles/resources/positions/framework_21stcent_curr_assessment.pdf(Links to an external site.).
This article focuses on the NCTE Framework for 21st Century Curriculum and Assessment. I feel this is useful information because the article includes a section on developing proficiency and fluency with the tools of technology. If covers the specific skills the student should be able to develop around using technology tools.
- “Digital Literacy Fundamentals.” MediaSmarts, 20 Feb. 2019, mediasmarts.ca/digital-media-literacy/general-information/digital-media-literacy-fundamentals/digital-literacy-fundamentals.
The Media Smarts Canada’s Centre for Digital and Media Literacy offers information, lessons, and teaching resources about digital and media literacy. The website has interactive online lessons for students, links to articles, and a section about literacy fundamentals as well as the framework for Canadian schools. Digital and media outcomes are stated by province and territory including a curriculum overview.
- “The 6 Online Research Skills Your Students Need.” Scholastic, www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/6-online-research-skills-your-students-need/.
This website offers ideas and a list of student activities around learning research skills. The activities focus on asking good questions, checking sources, gaining broad perspectives, persisting in searching for information despite challenges, respecting ownership, and gathering information through social networks.
- Williams, Addie. “Tips for Teaching Research Skills.” The Secondary English Coffee Shop, 1 Jan. 1970, secondaryenglishcoffeeshop.blogspot.com/2019/11/tips-for-teaching-research-skills.html.
This Blog offers information on how to develop research questions, planning for research, finding sources, and citing sources. It also provides an MLA Handbook.
6. Image: “Get Your EBook.” EBook How to Teach Students to Research Online by Kathleen Morris, www.subscribepage.com/researchskills.
7. Image: primarytech.global2.vic.edu.au/files/2018/11/Flowchart_-How-to-evaluate-websites-Kathleen-Morris-vx3iho.png.
The sources cited above will allow me to gain an in-depth understanding of digital literacy and research skills. They explore the following topics.
-Digital literacy in the 21st century
-Provincial standards and outcomes around research skills
-The fundamentals and framework for research
-Engaging strategies and activities to teach research skills
You have curated and annotated a good preliminary list of resources to help you with your inquiry going forward. There is a good balance between traditional (articles) and non-traditional (websites, blogs) sources. You have a solid foundation here for further work. Your embedded links worked well in the first half of the post; however, the sources you mention in the second half of the post did not have live links. Hyperlinks add another layer to your post and are a good takeaway for your reader. I look forward to seeing where your learning takes you.