Welcome to Michael Gorman's 21centuryedtech Workshop on Inquiry

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Contents

Welcome to this website devoted to Inquiry, Searching, and Evaluation.  As I speak with educators across the nation I find there is a need for all teachers to promote in depth inquiry, effective search techniques, and  proper web site evaluation by students. As part of my Digital Native/Digital Immigrant Presentation I call on Digital Immigrants (You and Me) to use their life long experience and education to show Digit ital Natives (Our students), how to make the best use of information they find on the web. 

Web Page Evaluation
I believe that web evaluation must be a simple process that can also be applied to memory. Thus the reason for my (A-G) approach. This Website is devoted to teaching these skills and I have spent hours preparing resources that you are free to use. I have divided this page using this A-G approach. I think you will find it easy to use, and should find good use for the PDF files, mini power points, activity sheets, and short video lessons. Please if you ever have the opportunity, visit me at one of my conference presentations, check out one of my webinars, or invite me to your school district to help inform your entire faculty. It really is time to help kids understand that there are no whales in Lake Michigan, the Southwest Tree Octopus is nonexistent, study of cats and bearded men did not really happen, moon creatures failed to film the lunar landing, and Columbus was not born in Australia. Below I have listed my (A-G) steps and you will then find each Letter that represents an evaluation step as a separate groups of resources.. Note that there are links to my 21centuryedtech Blog that will have expanded information, and by the way please take a moment while you are there to sign up by RSS or email. - Mike Gorman at (21centuryedtech)

  • A is for Author
  • B Is For Bias
  • C is for Currency
  • D is for Domain Anatomy
  • E is for Effectiveness Of Purpose
  • F is for Facts And Content
  • G is for Good Links



Searching


Inquiry











Google Advanced Search - (https://www.google.com/advanced_search) 
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WolframAlpha - (http://www.wolframalpha.com/)
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Twitter Non User Search - (https://twitter.com/search-home)
Blog Article -  Part 1… Amazing Twitter Secrets For Educators… Twitter’s Advanced Link… Amazingly Simple!
Blog Article -  Part 2… Amazing Twitter Secrets For Educators… Twitter For Non Twitter Users… Even Students!

Sweetsearch - (http://www.sweetsearch.com/) 
Blog Article -  Sweetsearch: More Than A Free Search Engine For K12 Education!

Twurdy - (http://www.twurdy.com/) 
Blog Article -  A Search Engine With A Readability Index In The Results… Check Out Twurdy!

Read-able -  (http://www.read-able.com/)

Google Custom Search - (http://www.google.com/cse/manage/all)