Research+in+a+Digital+World

 **Research in a Digital World** **Session Summary:** Research has changed in two fundamental ways. The amount and variety of resources that are available for students to use have increased dramatically requiring students to develop solid searching, evaluation and filtering skills. The tools available to students to expedite, organize, and facilitate research have changed the process as well. The one constant is the need to ask frame research around a relevant and engaging question. This session will explore how tools like diigo, zotero, sharedcopy, and OneNote shared notebooks can enhance the research project; how to scaffold research projects and include feedback in ways that deepen students’ research abilities; and how to create questions or problems that make research fun. If time permits we will briefly examine software tools that allow students to model and simulate scenarios or manipulate data in order to formulate their own conclusions from researched data.

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