Beyond Technology:
Questioning, Research and the Information Literate School



Based on his more than 33 years of working with teachers and media specialists to emphasize higher level thinking, problem-solving and decision-making, this book brings you the best of Jamie McKenzie's previously published articles about launching student research and resource-based learning projects.
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This 180 page soft cover book is already in its second printing since January of 2000.

ISBN: 0967407826
Table of Contents | About the author
First Chapter "Questions:
The Greatest Technology of All

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Table of Contents
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Part One
The Primacy of Questions

 
Chapter One Questions:
The Greatest Technology of All
Chapter Two Research Programs for An Age of Information
Chapter Three A Questioning Toolkit
Chapter Four Students in Resonance:
Dissonance, Juxtaposition and Fresh Thinking
Chapter Five Questioning and the Information Literate
School Community
Chapter Six Mastering State Standards
with Questioning & Strategic Thinking
Chapter Seven Strategic Teaching
Chapter Eight Telling Questions
.. Part Two
The Research Cycle
Chapter Nine The Research Cycle and Other Models
Chapter Ten Planning the Voyage
Chapter Eleven The Hunt
Chapter Twelve More Great Hunting
Chapter Thirteen Needles from Haystacks
Chapter Fourteen Regrouping Findings
Chapter Fifteen From Information to Persuasion
Chapter Sixteen Searching for the Grail
Chapter Seventeen Preventing the New Plagiarism
. Part Three
Research Modules
Chapter Eighteen Building Research Modules
Chapter Nineteen Levels of Modules
Chapter Twenty Scaffolding for Success
Chapter Twenty-One Modules for State Standards

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