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Month: December 2009

Scientia Potentia Est

Scientia Potentia Est

This started out to be a much different post but became ramblings, as an eye injury has made reading and writing a bit of a challenge, but I wanted to get down some of my thoughts anyway – as I get distracted and might forget them. I have been having on-going conversations with some educators about why we educate, what is it that we ultimately want students to be able to do, what do they need for be successful, what…

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Critical Reading

Critical Reading

I have been facilitating a book talk on Web Literacy for Educators by Alan November. Our discussions have been very interesting and I think we are all getting a lot out of it as we seek to apply those skills to our classrooms and daily searching habits.  One of the topics that has come up is how to teach critical reading and analysis of web pages.  We want to get beyond simply evaluating web pages for reliability, credibility and relevance…

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