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All the Right Moves

1/25/2018

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By Dave Quinn, Director of Technology Integration, Mendon-Upton Regional Schools


Several weeks ago my colleague, Maureen Cohen, wrote a warm, thoughtful blog that explored the importance of building wonder into our classroom practice. The student questions and strategies she provided reminded me of one of my favorite books, Thomas & Brown (2011)’s New Culture of Learning which discussed approaches to rethink education. In the book the authors write:

What if, for example, questions were more important than answers? What if the key to learning were not the application of techniques but their invention? What if students were asking questions about things that really mattered to them? 

With that shift in thinking, learning is transformed from a discrete limited process-ask a question, find an answer-to a continuous one. Every answer serves as a starting point, not an end point. It invites us 'to ask more and better questions.”
It’s a vision for education that makes me inspired.
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While thinking about Maureen’s piece, my mind began to shift from “the what” to "the how". How might our students go about exploring their wonderings and answering their questions? In particular, how are they making sense of or critically evaluating the information they obtain?  Research by the Stanford History Education Group suggests that students of all ages struggle to evaluate the credibility of claims made on social and digital media platforms.

Questioning is essential to personal growth as is the development of what Ernest Hemingway would call built-in, shockproof crap detector.

So how might we help students develop a better information filter? Mike Caulfield,  director of blended and networked learning at Washington State University Vancouver provides a simple, straightforward approach for quickly determining the accuracy of a claim in the article. The process, The Four Moves and a Habit, is a process for fact checking that gives students a process for assessing claims they encounter on the net. This resource is outlined in the infographic below.

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Caulfield has also written an e-book, Web Literacy for Student Fact Checkers, where he outlines the moves in-depth and also provides examples for using the moves on web texts. The Four Moves Blog has several fact-checking tasks based on current news articles. You can also check out his personal blog https://hapgood.us for deeper reading on information literacy and web navigation.
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