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=Welcome to Teaching Research to Children & Adolescents=

"If we teach as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow." - John Dewey

"If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less." - General Eric Shinseki, U.S. Army

"Information only becomes knowledge in the hands of someone who knows what to do with it." - Peter Drucker

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." - Alvin Toffler

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

"In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer

"Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live. - Peter Cochrane

"You will have inservice training on the use of technology every Tuesday and Thursday after school for the rest of your life." - Royal Van Horn

"You do what you do out of your private love of the thing itself." - Anne Dillard

"It isn't just education and discipline that makes one so devoted to work, it is simple joy." - Rilke

"If you want to change the world, you change the world of a child." - Pat Schroeder

"Our ability to be information literate depends on our willingness to be

lifelong learners as we are challenged to master new technologies that will forever alter the landscape of information." - Eric Plotnick
"Surfing the net is random exploration; problem-solving involves definite questions and answers." - 21st Century Fluency

NEW "Thinking about thinking and thinking about questioning...strengthen the power of student thought." - Jamie McKenzie

NEW "Unlike answers, questions carry little risk because the activity has made it acceptable to identify what it is that you do not know." Jamie McKenzie

NEW :"Once you have learned how to ask relevant and appropriate questions, you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know." - Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner, //Teaching as a Subversive Activity//

NEW: "...and I would like to beg you, dear sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer." Rainer Maria Rilke //Letters to a Young Poet//

NEW "Our feelings arise because we see pictures as extensions of the real world. Pictures that affect us strongly use structural principles based on the way we have to react in the real world in order to survive. As soon as you understand these principles, you will understand why pictures have such specific emotional effects. You will understand how pictures work.” - Molly Bang


 * This course is an introduction to instructional strategies for teaching research (and information literacy) skills to children and young adults. Let's explore the instructional possibilities of this wiki to stretch our own learning and to impact teaching and learning in our schools.**

(feel free to add quotations that express your own philosophy of 21st century teaching and learning)