This is a great visual to back up my teaching. We had a session last week where I was explaining this information to a year 8 science class as they embarked on a major research project. You know some” get it” but others are still struggle with evaluating a source even if they agree to the reason why. This is clean and concise.
Students often ask how to determine which websites and articles are good sources to cite. My answer is always, “Well, what do you think?” Students need to be able to think on their own. So, if your student offers some questionable sources, ask, “Why did you choose that one?” Try to get the student to think about the who, what, why, and when of the article and website. Let the student use critical thinking to come to a valid conclusion. They might just have a good reason for using the source.
How to chose a good online source…. some questions to ask yourself.
YA Books and More: The Importance of Libraries and What We Do “The author went to Youtube looking for the top five videos about and for libraries and this is what they found. The three criteria were: 1. Had to be about school libraries 2. Definitely no cheesiness! It has to have importance attached to it 3. Well done format. ” And there were 4.
The Library Designed Like a Bookstore | Book Recommendations and Reviews | BOOK RIOT “The city of Almere, The Netherlands commissioned Concrete Architectural Associates to design their new public library. The result was a space that looks and feels like a high-end store but provides all the services of a modern library. The 16,000+ shelf-feet of books are arranged by lifestyle categories that would be at home in a bookstore (travel, health, etc), and all books are displayed cover out. This combination, Concrete says, fosters browsing and discovery, rather than the more conventional library system of finding a particular book’s cataloging number and then searching for it specifically in stack-like shelving. Seating is also built into the shelving areas, much like I remember from my favorite Borders, along with study and work areas. A cafe sits next to the computer workstations, and the children’s area has big, movable foam pieces for seating and play”
Worlds of Learning | Serendipitous Making Laura Fleming has written a great post about her experience with makerspaces in school libraries. She embraced the idea of accidental discovery with curious students being given some interesting gadgets and let students come up with their own applications.
Digital Literacy Explained by Common Craft (VIDEO) “Literacy comes in many forms. As the adoption of computers, mobile devices and the Internet has grown, digital literacy has become more important than ever. This video will help your audience understand the potential of digital literacy in our societies.”
WW1 – The Definitive Collection – Video Archives – British Pathé WW1 – The Definitive Collection. To commemorate the centenary of the First World War, British Pathé has launched this definitive collection of films from that conflict. British Pathé holds one of the finest and most comprehensive WW1 archives in the world. If you are unable to find what you are looking for, you can explore the entire archive using the search bar at the top of the page.
World War One’s forgotten Anzacs: The Indigenous Army – BBC News Anzac Day, 25 April, is probably Australia’s most important national occasion. It marks the anniversary of the first campaign that led to major casualties for Australian and New Zealand forces during World War One, and commemorates all the conflicts that followed. This year marks the centenary of that first bloody battle on the shores of Gallipoli and will be remembered across the country and in Turkey with special ceremonies and exhibitions. In the third feature in our series on Gallipoli, Saffron Howden for BBC News tells some of the stories of Indigenous Australian soldiers. line For nearly a century, a tin trunk in a bedroom in remote country New South Wales (NSW) held the official documents and medal testifying to Richard Norman Kirby’s exceptional wartime feats. The Australian soldier was celebrated quietly by his family – his portrait had pride of place in the lounge room of the family home – but the rest of the country knew.
Dipsticks: Efficient Ways to Check for Understanding | Edutopia A interesting post about the place and value of formative assessment. It includes a long, printable list of assessment strategies will help identify new ways to check for understanding and verify what students have learned.
Writing Strategies for Students With ADHD | Edutopia “Addressing the challenges unique to students with ADHD will help these students find ways to handle their condition effectively and even use it to their advantage. Their unique perspective can be channeled into creative writing, finding new solutions to problems, and most of all, finding, reaching, and even exceeding their goals and fulfilling their full potential.”
The Best Pinterest Ideas for Teachers We’ve HeardYou can find inspirational ideas on the Pinterest site. Listed in this post are a few good Pinterest ideas for teachers: best apps, websites, virtual fieldtrips and classroom ideas.
5 Tips for Classroom Management with Mobile Devices | Indiana Jen Classroom management is always challenging skill that good educators are constantly working to improve on with every class. Managing a classroom that is using technology requires the same approach and skill set as the non-technology based one. The traditional methods of classroom management easily translate to the technology rich ones with only slight modifications.
Reading Australia – Home Reading Australia has been developed by the Copyright Agency and aims to make significant Australian literary works more readily available for teaching in schools and universities. These works are supplemented with online teacher resources and essays by popular authors about the enduring relevance of the works. There is a list of titles (download as a PDF). These titles have been selected by the Australian Society of Authors’ (ASA) Council. They were asked to select works they thought students and others should encounter, to give a view of Australia’s rich cultural identity: works that would tell Australia’s history and also how we are currently developing as a nation. The ASA Council are adamant that this list should be merely the beginning, and it should be built upon with other works that have already been published, as well as the great new works that continue to be published in Australia. There is a wide range of teacher resources available (PDF) for Primary and Secondary school teachers and all of these teacher resources include classroom activities, assessments and links to the Australian Curriculum. In addition, many of the Secondary resources include an introductory essay on the text written by high profile writers. The Primary level resources have been commissioned by the Primary English Teaching Association of Australia and the Australian Literacy Educators’ Association, and the resources for Secondary level have been jointly commissioned by the Australian Association for the Teaching of English and the English Teachers Association NSW.”
This Is What A 1915 Military Hospital Looks Like Now This Is What A 1915 Military Hospital Looks Like Now. “Then and now” photos show the WWI military hospital on the Greek island of Lemnos, where nurses treated Anzac soldiers injured at Gallipoli. This set of 16 images (the current day colour photos overlaid with the 1915 black and white shots) are part of an exhibition on display at the State Library of NSW
Persuasive Writing – Emotional vs Intellectual Words – Writers Write A useful list for writers. “Persuasive writers use words to convince the reader to listen or to act. This is a list of words found originally in an article called “Common words that suck emotional power out of your content’ by John Gregory Olson. He explains how words have emotions attached to them, and that you should choose the correct ones for the response you want to elicit from your reader.”
How To Get Published: Jane Friedman Outlines The Options (INFOGRAPHIC) Infographic. “Jane Friedman, a former publisher of Writer’s Digest, has created a useful infographic to help writers understand some of the different ways for getting published. She has divided the various models into five potential publishing paths, outlining the pros and cons of each.”
JULIUS CAESAR AND THE END OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC POWERPOINT LESSON – TeachersPayTeachers.com From the Teachers pay teachers site. “A visually appealing PowerPoint covering Roman History from the First Triumvirate of Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey through the death of Mark Antony and rise of Octavian. Each slide includes images and graphics that hold students’ attention and keep them focused on the lesson. Topics covered include the rise of Julius Caesar, Pompey and the Senate’s plan to bring him home, his crossing of the Rubicon, the civil war, his relationship with Cleopatra, his assassination, and much more. It concludes with an open-ended exit ticket that has students thinking critically about the things they learned. “
Head of the River is not simply a novel about sport. It is about so much more. It is ultimately about friendship, growing up, relationships, identity, insecurities and anxieties when you are becoming an adult and family bonds. Sport is the mechanism but it is not an “issues” book.
It is an interesting read, looking at the pressures placed on young people the world of elite school sport. Money and prestige play a big part in this rather insular world where winning seems all-consuming.
This novel tells the story of Cristian and Leni Posescu who are twins on rowing scholarships. There are high expectations that they will perform well, partly because their parents are both medal winning Olympians and partly because they must maintain high performances to stay at the school. The pressure to do well and win the Head of the River eights, in both boys and girls sections, place almost unbearable pressures on both them and others in their circle.
The narrative unfolds with the voices of Cristian and Leni in alternating chapters as they explain their struggles. Each is trying create a balance in their lives whilst finding a place for study, working out their relationships as well as keeping up with the rigorous training regime in preparation for the final race. Each finds out that not everything can be achieved the way they want it to.
At the end of the novel, the love they have within their family, and the support they give to each other, leaves the reader with a positive impression of life beyond school.
Teachers notes can be found here for encouraging further discussion.
This book raises some real-world issues that younger athletes may experience when they seek to excel in a sport. The boys are exposed to the use of anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs. The consequences of this use comes to light in a way that introduces some topical questions about sporting culture and the detection of drug cheats as well as the pressure placed on young athletes to perform at elite levels
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How to chose a good online source…. some questions to ask yourself. 
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