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One of the major stumbling blocks that students face when conducting research is how to construct meaning from what they read. Research usually starts with a question or topic that the teacher has assigned or the student is curious about. In most cases, the students use a search engine to look up as many sources [...] Imagine a classroom getting ready to start working on a project. The teacher has just assigned the driving question–a question designed to look into the heart of a discipline and serve the purpose of organizing and driving activities in the project. Getting ready to plan activities for this project turns out to be a challenging [...] Last year, I introduced Google Sites as a presentation and collaboration tool for my students. They used it to create projects covering the California Missions, Native Americans, and each of the 50 states. On the surface, the sites functioned as an online replacement of traditional paper. In essence, students were able to create quite sophisticated [...] |
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