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Beyond Technology to Learning and Information Literacy, FNO

1. The Educational Technology Journal Index
2. The Best of FNO Questioning Articles Index 

McKenzie has created an exceptional collection of articles to help teachers and school districts undertake this challenging task. He speaks with the authority than comes from having practiced what he preaches.  Working in the Bellingham Public School system and later as an international speaker and consultant, Jamie has had the benefit of learning from first hand experience of what does work and what does not, and he freely shares the wisdom gained from many years experience. 

Selected favorites:

• How to use the Internet in a classroom
• The Information Literate School Community
• Power Learning - Creating Student-Centered Problems-Based Classrooms
• A focus on questions and school research.
• Austrailian Links
• Making the Net Work for Schools: Online Research Modules
• Questioning

  • Module Maker

  • Framing Essential Questions
  • The Greatest Technology of them all: The Human Question
  • The Question Is the Answer
  • Telling Questions and the Search for Insight
  • A Questioning Toolkit 
  • Strategies to Engender Student Questioning
• Graphical Organizers  as Thinking Technology (A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words)
• Data Sources: From data to information to insight
• Deep Thinking and Deep Reading in an Age of Info-Glut, Info-Garbage Info-Glitz and Info-Glimmer
• Grazing the Net part 1
• Grazing the Net part 2
• The New Plagiarism 
• The New Homework 
• Parenting for an Age of Information
  • Inventing 
  • Questioning
  • Guard Against Excessive Routine 
  • Encourage Optimism, Faith And The Benefit Of Doubt
  • Puzzling 
  • Choosing

URLs for Research Modules and WebQuests

• Explorers' Homeport (5th grade)

• Making the Net  Work for Schools: Online Research Modules

• Module Maker

• NSW Research Modules

• Grand Prairie Research Modules

• Baltimore County Research Modules

• WebQuest