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Research Across The Curriculum: Using Cognitive Science To Answer The Call For Better Legal Research Instruction, Tenielle Fordyce-Ruff

Dickinson Law Review (2017-Present)

The American Bar Association (ABA), law students, and employers are demanding that law schools do better when teaching legal research. Academic critics are demanding that law professors begin to apply the lessons from the science of learning to improve student outcomes. The practice of law is changing.

Yet, the data shows that law schools are not changing their legal research curriculum to respond to the need of their students or to address the ABA’s mandate. This stagnation comes at the same time as an explosion in legal information and a decrease in technical research skills among incoming students. This article …

Interrogating Fake News In The Composition Classroom: Pedagogical Plans, Shelly A. Galliah

The Liminal: Interdisciplinary Journal of Technology in Education

This brief article argues that the skills developed in the first-year Composition classroom, such as analyzing texts, interrogating arguments, investigating media bias, conducting research, and thinking critically are crucial for helping students recognize the various forms of disinformation and post-truth as well as how to avoid circulating these and further polluting the media and information ecospheres. It also argues that Composition instructors must remain centrist to avoid exacerbating political polarization and alienating students who might be resistant to investigating fake news. This article summarizes some key readings and practical activities that Composition instructors may incorporate into their classrooms.

Developing Blended Learning In Library Instruction To Cultivate Research And Critical Thinking Skills In The Undergraduate Student Population, Bernadette López-Fitzsimmons

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

The ever-evolving digital resources in multiple types and formats have introduced numerous opportunities for enhanced teaching-and-learning environments focused on student–driven activities. Many of these strategies have already been implemented at educational institutions throughout the world.

This presentation will demonstrate how blended learning pedagogies in a library’s one-shot and for-credit courses cultivate research and critical thinking skills. The presenter will discuss how to customize library instruction for diverse student populations who have a complex history of multiple learning styles and varying literacy levels.

The presenter will describe several strategies that activate prior knowledge so that building new knowledge is seamlessly organic. …

Desarrollo De Habilidades Investigativas Mediante La Resolución De Problemas En Ciencias Naturales : Una Experiencia Con Niños De Primer Ciclo, Diana Marcela Aux Bello, María Alejandra Cerón Achicanoy, Nancy Juliet Pineda Rojas

Maestría en Docencia

La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo analizar la influencia de la resolución de problemas en el desarrollo de habilidades investigativas: interpretativa, argumentativa y propositiva en Ciencias Naturales, en niños de primer ciclo. La metodología fue de carácter cuasi-experimental de tipo cualitativo-descriptivo, que consistió en aplicar una prueba de entrada, un tratamiento y una prueba de salida, con el fin de establecer su estado inicial y final de desarrollo. Se evidenció como problema el bajo nivel de los estudiantes de primer ciclo en cuanto a la adquisición de habilidades propias de las Ciencias Naturales para la resolución de situaciones problema, por …