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Learning Through My Research

My Driving Question: "How can digital tools help teachers guide middle school students in finding reliable sources while conducting their own research?"

Supporting Research Questions:

Where are students getting stuck in their research?
Where do reliable sources come from? How do students know once they’ve found them?
How can teachers help their students in the research process?
What is needed so that teachers can guide their students through the research process?

To discover answers to my Driving Question, I explored:

how the brain works and how students learn, particularly through constructivism
how students can take ownership of their own learning
how teachers can support students throughout the research process
how digital tools can help teachers organize projects to support student inquiry
how digital tools can be used to support students with their research

Image is linked to article from TeachThought.

Research Poster

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If you'd like more information about my research, feel free to look into my following work:

Executive Summary
Action Research Paper
IRB Proposal
Literature Review: Explains the following themes:
- Student Inquiry via Research
- Barriers to Student Inquiry in the Classroom
- Informational Literacy and the Research Process
Lit Review Table: Includes articles, videos, and tools I have found useful in my action research and classroom practices.
Description of how I conducted my action research:

Digital Tools that Support Student Research

Design Process

Support and Next Steps