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Who knew that there were different types of research patterns?! I discovered that I am in fact a mix Horizontal Information Seeking and a Viewer researcher. The article "The Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future" stated that Horizontal Information Seeking is basically skimming. People who use this method of research only read a few pages of an article to find information and never return to it I find myself reading just enough of an article to get a few key points and I move on to another article. A Viewer researcher also spends a short amount of time on articles or other e-journal sites for information. However, during this type of research I look for key words and instant gratification, so I won't have to spend so much time reading through so many websites or articles. Once I have enough information for the articles or websites by using the key words, I move on to the next.

Most teens complete their research similar to me which is not surprising. They do a lot of skimming to try to find quick information, so they won't have to spend so much time on actual "research" part. However, since I've completed high school and Undergrad I know how to use more keywords to find what I need while I'm researching. And unlike high school, colleges have Galileo which makes looking up articles and other materials fairly easy.

Speaking of research... If you want to get better at research and keywords try a "Google a Day Challenge"! It might seem simple, but some questions may stump you. I answered two questions correctly, but the one question that seemed so easy gave me the hardest time! I've noticed that I need to work on determining what guide words to use to find specific pages, such as to search only a specific site or "word * word" to find other combinations of words between words.
Materials The Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future Google a Day Challenges

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Who knew that there were different types of research patterns?! I discovered that I am in fact a mix Horizontal Information Seeking and a Viewer researcher. The article "The Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future" stated that Horizontal Information Seeking is basically skimming.

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Module 3

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While reading Great Teaching Means Letting Go, I realized that teachers can be the problem. As teachers, we are conditioned to help and assist and it's hard to "let go" only because we want the best for our students. The late great, Grant Wiggins compared teachers to soccer coaches....which sounds weird at first, but it actually makes sense. The more a teacher or coach provides or scaffolds, the pupils will become reliant on the help.

"Letting Go" actually reminds me of STEAM. I teach STEAM after school and it's pretty much allowing the students to build and create and make their own mistakes in order to complete a task.

Seeing students make their own mistakes without actually being there to guide or assist will be hard. There were a few questions posed at the end of the article. One question stood out to me. "Can you make more lessons more scrimmage-like? It will definitely be a challenge, but starting this summer I will challenge myself to create more lessons that are scrimmage-like. That means that I will allow the students to use what I have taught and scaffolded previously and allow the students to be completely independent and make their own mistakes. It's pretty much just allowing the students to get messy and make their own mistakes in order to learn and grow.

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While reading Great Teaching Means Letting Go, I realized that teachers can be the problem. As teachers, we are conditioned to help and assist and it's hard to "let go" only because we want the best for our students. The late great, Grant Wiggins compared teachers to soccer coaches....which sounds weird at first, but it actually makes sense.

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Module 5

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Inquiry-Based learning is barely spoken in my school. I learned about it some in undergrad, but once I started teaching in my school system everything changed. I taught ELA/Reading last year, and the teachers were given books to teach from. The book were scripted and each lesson was provided for you. It was little to no work for the teacher and it was too routine for the students

Since reading the readings and watching the clips from this week I realized that their was no inquiry-based learning provided. The books nor lessons fostered the students' curiosity and the students didn't discover much, everything was in black and white in front of their faces. It's important for the students to make mistakes, get messy, and learn in different ways other than paper and pencil.

I would definitely like to change all of that for my students this year!

While designing my mini-lessons it was a challenge to figure out how each lesson ties in with the eight principles of inquiry-based learning... I chose the standard- S2L1. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the life cycles of different living organisms.

1. Authenticity: I am going to have the students draw or color turtles. Every student's turtle will look different and I'm sure some will be in water and some on land. This will be before the lesson in order to foster their curiosity.

2. Deep Understanding: I will allow the students to go to the library to check out age appropriate books on turtles, most books will have a life cycle presented in the book. The students will write down important facts from their books on sticky notes.

3. Assessment: The students will be given an option to make a poster or design a Google Slides presentation about the life cycle of a turtle.

4. Technology: I want the students to use technology to extend and deeper their understanding. One way the students can use technology is to have the students watch a video on the life cycle of turtles. They can also participate in a simulation on the life cycle of a turtle. Afterwards they can participate in a collaborative Google Slideshow to show what they learned and/or add pictures of the stages of turtles.

5. Understanding: The students have the option to choose what project/ assessment will best represent their learning.

6. Connecting with experts: There are videos online about the life cycle of different type of turtles. The videos have real photographs and footage of the different phases.

7. Success: The students can pick if they want to make a poster, video, slideshow, or oral presentation to show their successes.

8. Ethical Citizenship: I will allow the students to work in groups to share their findings. This will provide the students with a deeper understanding of themselves and their peers efforts during the project.

Resources Introduction to Inquiry-Based Learning

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Teaching strategies, classroom management, education reform, educational technology -- if it has something to do with teaching, we're talking about it. Jennifer Gonzalez interviews educators, students, administrators and parents about the psychological and social dynamics of school, trade secrets, and other juicy things you'll never learn in a textbook.

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"Tell Me and I forget, Teach Me and I remember, Involve Me and I learn"

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On Demand Learning in the 21st Century Classroom | Kayla Scheer | TEDxABQED

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Welcome to the TeacherCast Podcasting Network. Join host Jeff Bradbury (@TeacherCast) and the worlds finest educators and educational technology creators as we discuss the latest in educational tech and pedagogy. Our goal is to help you find and use the right educational technology for your classroom.

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Literacy for All: Equitable Practices for Reading and Dyslexia

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Every Teacher, Every Day: What Teachers Need to Implement Effective Reading Instruction

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A veteran reading teacher shares takeaways from her ‘Teachers as Readers’ learning group. What teachers need: enough time to teach language arts, well-stocked classroom libraries, student input, and meaningful professional development.

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As we look beyond the first year of living in the time of COVID, libraries and their communities continue to move through uncharted territory. Fortunately, the field is committed to sharing what's being learned through multiple online platforms. Take a look at this month's list of over 90 free webinars, symposiums, festivals, workshops, and forums, covering 22 different topic areas, from advocacy to volunteers. Thank you to the Wyoming State Library for collecting this list of learning opportunities! It's updated monthly on the Free Training page, where you can also view the offerings by topic.

For additional training, check out the WebJunction Catalog, free and open to library staff and volunteers everywhere.

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A curated list of texts to guide students to explore Black history and practice a variety of writing moves at the same time.

A number of people and events in Black history are commonly taught in schools-Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Frederick Douglass-but there are many more lesser-known but critically important aspects that demand our attention as educators. While Black history should be taught year-round, Black History Month provides us with a unique opportunity to elevate the stories and voices of Black people who have shaped American history.

As a literacy consultant who understands that elementary teachers have time for only one read-aloud a day at most, I suggest selecting books that can serve a myriad of purposes. In February, that means reading books-like those that follow-that teach Black history and can also serve as mentor texts to inspire students to try new craft moves in their informational writing.
Courtesy of Roaring Book Press 28 Days: Moments in Black History That Changed the World, by Charles R. Smith, illustrated by Shane W. Evans
Smith highlights both well- and lesser-known events, laws, and people in Black history. There's a 29th day-for leap years-dedicated to helping readers understand that they too have the power to shape history. Every entry has a distinct structure, including a eulogy for Madam C.J. Walker and a poem for Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe.

Mentor text possibilities:
A Day for Rememberin': Inspired by the True Events of the First Memorial Day, by Leah Henderson, illustrated by Floyd Cooper

How do you teach someone about a big topic in a meaningful way? We instruct students to narrow their focus. Smith makes Black history accessible by covering important events and people briefly. Ask students to select main and subordinate ideas using tools like boxes and bullets to facilitate this work.

The graphic style of 28 Days is worth emphasizing. Students will be inspired to tinker with using different fonts, point sizes, and colors after closely studying this text.

This story follows 10-year-old Eli on what is regarded as the first Memorial Day, in 1865. Readers can feel the significance of the day as a dressed-up Eli misses school to join his parents in paying their respects to the Union soldiers who gave their lives in the Civil War.

Mentor text possibilities:
Northbound: A Train Ride Out of Segregation, by Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein, illustrated by James Ransome

It's important for students to learn that leads and endings aren't just the first and last sentences-they can span several pages. By studying leads and endings in picture books, students come to understand that authors have more than one strategy to open or close a text. For instance, I'd categorize the lead in A Day for Rememberin' as a Meeting the Characters lead, which provides readers with an introduction to main and secondary characters.

Students can study the font treatment, which helps writers communicate their words more effectively-giving them the opportunity to highlight words or phrases. This book shows students how they can utilize italics. Henderson uses italics to emphasize significant words and to embed lyrics in the text, helping readers hear them as songs.

After watching trains pass by his family's farm for years, young Michael Bandy is taking his first train trip. He befriends a White boy on the train during an interval when the "Colored Only" signs come down, only to be ushered back to his segregated car later.

Mentor text possibilities:

The heart of a story is often revealed bit by bit. Here, Bandy and Stein employ a variety of techniques-action, internal thinking, dialogue, setting details, character details-modeling for young writers how to stretch out the most important parts of their own text.

If you're teaching students how to write narrative nonfiction, it's possible they'll craft stories that require additional information to be understood. Including back or end matter helps readers better understand the historical context of a book that would feel out of place in the narrative. The authors' note in Northbound discusses the Interstate Commerce Act, which impacted the way segregation was enforced on trains.

Courtesy of Candlewick Press Seeds of Freedom: The Peaceful Integration of Huntsville, Alabama, by Hester Bass, illustrated by E.B. Lewis
Seeds of Freedom illustrates how the Black citizens of Huntsville sought justice through peace in their remarkable fight to integrate their city. Through planning and actions like lunch counter sit-ins, the seeds of freedom were sown. Readers witness the fight for the integration of Huntsville's schools-the first all-White public schools in Alabama to admit Black children.

Mentor text possibilities:
Opal Lee and What It Means to Be Free: The True Story of the Grandmother of Juneteenth, by Alice Faye Duncan, illustrated by Keturah A. Bobo

This book takes place over the course of 21 months. Showcasing the way Bass uses headings can teach students how dated headings can frame their writing, marking changes in time and place.

The author employs words like segregation and integrate as well as helping young readers understand their meaning along the way. One way to offset definitions within a sentence is to use dashes. By showing students examples of how to define words in text, you'll help them embed content-specific language into their writing.

Activist Opal Lee-who marched from Texas to Washington, D.C., at 89 years old to bring attention to Juneteenth-believed it was crucial to remember the past in order to have a better future. Readers learn about the origins of Juneteenth as well as what life was like for Black Americans in the years that followed.

Mentor text possibilities:
A Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story, by Sharon Langley and Amy Nathan, illustrated by Floyd Cooper

Writers create a mood by making conscious decisions about punctuation. Duncan, for example, creates voice in her text by skillful use of commas, ellipses, and hyphenated compound adjectives. By teaching students these moves, we can help them make purposeful choices so their writing sounds the way they intend.

Some of the back matter in Opal Lee is traditional, like a Juneteenth timeline and a source list. But there's also a recipe for the red punch lemonade that's featured in the story. As a result, students can explore the back matter and think of a variety of additional things they could include after the last page of their main text.

A Ride to Remember transports readers to Maryland's Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in the early 1960s. This first-person narrative details the joyous day that Sharon Langley became the first Black child to ride the carousel-coincidentally, on the day Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.

Mentor text possibilities:
The Teachers March!: How Selma's Teachers Changed History, by Sandra Neil Wallace, illustrated by Charly Palmer

Authors often employ multiple strategies to open a text. Within the first two page spreads, this book combines a character snapshot with an invitation to imagine the beauty and equality of a carousel ride. Showing students leads that use multiple strategies will encourage them to take writerly risks.

A Ride to Remember contains multiple sentences that model a variety of comma uses. Since students are at different points of comma understanding, try leading a variety of strategy lessons that meet them where they are.

The Teachers March! describes the genesis and organization of a teachers-only march in Selma, Alabama. Rev. F.D. Reese knew that teachers were pillars of the community and believed that if he could get Black teachers in Selma to march-in an effort to obtain the right to vote-then change would follow.

Mentor text possibilities:

One of the ways that Wallace keeps readers engaged throughout the text is by inserting questions, which make the reader stop and think about the information they're learning-something students can learn to do in their own work.

Quotation marks are often used around a word or a phrase to set it off or emphasize it. Students can tinker with using quotation marks for more than dialogue by using them to stress selected words or phrases in their writing.

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A curated list of texts to guide students to explore Black history and practice a variety of writing moves at the same time. A number of people and events in Black history are commonly taught in schools-Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Frederick Douglass-but there are many more lesser-known but critically important aspects that demand our attention as educators.

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