empowering students to critical thinking - solveig kavli & eli heldaas seland
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Empowering students to critical thinking
Eli Heldaas Seland and Solveig Kavli
LILAC April 25 2014
“…to equip students of Generation N* with adequate and relevant tools for academic writing, and enhance their consciousness regarding critical reading and evaluation of sources.”
*as in Network, used about persons born after 1980 (Feiertag and Berge, 2008, p. 457).
• Presentation of the site Søk & Skriv
• Boosting students’ self-esteem
• Academic skills; reading and critical thinking
• What is new?
• User statistics
• Exploiting Søk & Skrivwww.sokogskriv.no/en/
www.sokogskriv.no/en/
Empowerment
• Self-confidence vs self-esteem
• Students as experts of their own research
• Taking charge of one’s own project
• Sense-making is individual
Articulating requirements
• Transition
• What do we expect from students?
• Ethical guidelines
Reading and critical thinking
• Do students know how to read?
• Surface vs deep approach to reading
• Objectives for reading
• Reading techniques
• Dialogue between text and reader
• Contextualisation
• http://sokogskriv.no/en/reading/ways-of-reading
http://sokogskriv.no/en/reading/ways-of-reading
Source evaluation
“Evaluate the sources for your thesis carefully. Take a stand on the sources you have chosen and explain why you rely on these particular sources.”
http://sokogskriv.no/en/sources-and-references/
What is new?
• Reading
• Expanded section on writing
• Open dialogue with users
• Teachers’ guide (Norwegian only)
Numbers from Google Analytics March 2014
Summing up the statistics
• Most used: Sources and referencing
• Increased use of Writing
• Least used: Reading and Searching
Exploiting Søk & Skriv
• Embedding the tutorial in teaching
• Infrastructure
• Teachers’ guide
• Study groups
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Feiertag, J. and Berge, Z. L. (2008) Training Generation N: how educators should approach the Net Generation. Education + Training, Vol. 50 Iss: 6, pp. 457 – 464. Available from: <http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1740424> [Accessed November 8 2013].
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Ransdell, S., Kent, B., Gaillard-Kenney, S. and Long, J. (2011) Digital immigrants fare better than digital natives due to social reliance. British Journal of Educational Technology, 42, pp. 931–938. Available from: <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8535.2010.01137.x/full> [Accessed October 21 2013].
Rienecker, L., & Stray Jørgensen, P. (2012) Den gode oppgave – håndbog i opgaveskrivning på videregående uddannelser. 4. utg. Frederiksberg, Samfundslitteratur.
Søk og Skriv. Available from: <http://www.sokogskriv.no/en > [Accessed april 2014]
-Thank you-
Contact information
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