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Herrick, Imogen R.; Sinatra, Gale M.; Lombardi, Doug – Science Teacher, 2023
There has never been a more pressing need for students to learn how to evaluate scientific information online than during the COVID-19 outbreak. Information, misinformation, and disinformation spread quickly across online news and social media platforms. This misleading or incorrect scientific information about infectious diseases could lead to…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Decision Making, Information Sources
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Walker, Amy Schoenfeld – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2019
While some journalists analyze and verify "open source" materials such as social media, eyewitness video, and satellite imagery to hold leaders and institutions accountable, many journalists and students are not learning basic digital verification skills. Research shows that journalists find this work challenging and that newsrooms do…
Descriptors: Journalism, Journalism Education, Ethics, Deception
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Apriyanti, Netty; Razak, Rafiza Abdul; Shaharom, Mohd Shahril Nizam; Rahim, Suzieleez Syrene Abdul; Halili, Siti Hajar – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
This research aims to analyze the needs of infographic media for physics learning of the concept kinematics of rectilinear motions, especially for the concept of uniform rectilinear motion and accelerated uniform motion in Senior High School. This research was conducted to teachers, students, and document analysis, namely syllabus and list of…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Science Education, Physics, Motion
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de Oliveira Souza, Leandro; Lopes, Celi Espasandin; Fitzallen, Noleine – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2020
Statistics education has the potential to assist students to develop their identities and engage in problems and social contexts that assist in empowering them to act politically in the future. The actions and narrative reported in this paper seek to identify the way in which teachers could develop and implement statistical inquiries that utilize…
Descriptors: Creativity, Teaching Methods, Statistics, Cultural Context
Waring, Scott M.; Hartshorne, Richard – Teachers College Press, 2020
Engaging students with primary sources fosters inquiry, critical thinking, and deductive reasoning skills, all of which are vitally important to success in school and beyond. Simply inserting primary sources into the classroom is not enough. This resource uses the best of emerging Internet applications (Web 2.0) to capture the interest of today's…
Descriptors: Primary Sources, Resource Materials, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Banerjee, Mita; Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
One of the central challenges educators face today, especially in higher education, is the gap between warranted (domain-specific) knowledge and the prior beliefs students hold about certain concepts and phenomena (preconceptions). In the Internet age, students often self-directedly acquire knowledge from an increasingly large number of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Processes, Decision Making, Cognitive Processes
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Tapan-Broutin, Menekse Seden; Ilkorucu, Sirin – Journal of Education and Learning, 2021
Studies in recent years have focused heavily on teacher practice and analyzing textbooks and their contents. The schematic representation of the resource system can be used to analyze the composition of teachers' creation of the document. It is also thought to be an effective process for revealing their critical thinking dispositions. This study…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Mathematics Instruction
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Bird, Michael; Wilson, Katherine Anne; Egan-Simon, Daryn; Jackson, Alannah; Kirkup, Richard – Teaching History, 2020
Lots has been written in recent years about how history teachers can bring academic scholarship into the classroom. This article takes this interest in academic practice a step further, examining how pupils can engage directly with the kinds of sources to which historians are increasingly turning their attention: the 'everyday' objects of ordinary…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Sensory Experience, Information Sources
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Lowe, M. Sara; Macy, Katharine V.; Stone, Sean M. – Journal of Information Literacy, 2019
For one-shot instruction sessions, formative assessment is the most feasible method for gathering data to aid contingent teaching, the practice of adapting to learners' needs. Various technologies aid in the quick and efficient gathering of data on student learning in the classroom that can be used for formative assessment. Outside of a library…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Audience Response Systems, Learning Analytics, Formative Evaluation
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Yang, Qiang – Asian Journal of Contemporary Education, 2019
In this paper, the learning process is digitally tracked and recorded, with regard to learning evolves into data-intensive learning. Also, the number and scale of data are long and the resources are heterogeneous, and the information resources are not abundant, causing users to be lost. In the process of clean information, seeking information…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Data Analysis, Recordkeeping, Information Seeking
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Shi, Yuchen – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
Evidence is widely recognized as an essential component of argumentation. Existing research has primarily focused on students' use of evidence to construct explanations or claims. In the present study, 54 11- to 12-year-old Chinese students participated in an extended discourse-based argumentation curriculum, along with an equivalent…
Descriptors: Evidence, Persuasive Discourse, Teaching Methods, Comparative Analysis
Breakstone, Joel; McGrew, Sarah; Smith, Mark; Ortega, Teresa; Wineburg, Sam – Phi Delta Kappan, 2018
In recent years--and especially since the 2016 presidential election--numerous media organizations, newspapers, and policy advocates have made efforts to help Americans become more careful consumers of the information they see online. In K-12 and higher education, the main approach has been to provide students with checklists they can use to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Technological Literacy, Check Lists, Elementary Secondary Education
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Brun-Mercer, Nicole – English Teaching Forum, 2019
Literacy today requires not only the comprehension of traditional print texts, but also proficiency in twenty-first century technology (International Reading Association 2009). While reading online has become commonplace and in many instances mandatory, readers are not necessarily engaging with digital texts effectively or efficiently. Instructors…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Reading Rate
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Chang, Li-Ching – JALT CALL Journal, 2022
With increasingly rapid advances in machine translation (MT) technology, such as Google Translate, MT has become an indispensable learning resource for second or additional language learners. Many studies indicate that MT or postediting of MT (PEMT) can be an effective tool for L2 learning and teaching. Nevertheless, little research illustrates…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Translation
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Sellin, Jonathan – Teaching History, 2020
Intrigued by the wide range of pupils' responses to a sourcebased essay question, Jonathan Sellin decided to investigate why pupils were using sources in such different ways. Probing his own philosophical assumptions about history, and how they have changed over time, prompted Sellin to explore pupils' assumptions about how historians use sources…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Essays
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