A digital notebook is the digital analog to a paper notebook. It is the space for student inquiry, thinking, brainstorming, reflecting, taking notes, collecting clippings of text, and synthesizing information from disparate online sources. The digital notebook is a problem space, central to each SOAR Strategy and essential to the whole research process.
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The SOAR Strategies for Online Academic Research: Helping Middle School Students Meet New Standards
Carolyn Harper Knox (University of Oregon, USA), Lynne Anderson-Inman (University of Oregon, USA), Fatima E. Terrazas-Arellanes (University of Oregon, USA), Emily Deanne Walden (University of Oregon, USA), and Bridget Hildreth (University of Oregon, USA)
Copyright: © 2016
|Pages: 37
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9441-5.ch004
Abstract
Students often struggle when conducting research online, an essential skill for meeting the Common Core State Standards and for success in the real world. To meet this instructional challenge, researchers at the University of Oregon's Center for Advanced Technology in Education (CATE) developed, tested, and refined nine SOAR Strategies for Online Academic Research. These strategies are aligned with well-established, research-based principles for teaching all students, with particular attention to the instructional needs of students with learning disabilities. To support effective instruction of the SOAR Strategies, researchers at CATE developed a multimedia website of instructional modules called the SOAR Toolkit. This chapter highlights the real world importance of teaching middle school students to conduct effective online research. In addition, it describes the theoretical and historical foundations of the SOAR Strategies, instructional features of the SOAR Toolkit, and research results from classroom implementations at the middle school level.