this fifty-second episode of ventriloquy is a recording of Dr Mark C Baildon, who was addressing an audience at the National Institute of Education, Singapore, on the topic: Examining ways readers engage with websites in inquiry-based social studies.
Mark is a ninth-grade teacher at the Taipei American School in Taiwan. His talk focused on the challenges middle school students encounter in their attempts to make sense of the information and claims on the web.
if you are at all interested in social studies and history education, this 66.8 MB episode is certainly worth a listen!
Show notes:
- opening remarks
- overview of research interests
- investigating inquiry & literacy practices
- literacy challenges facing students on the web
- making sense of 'new' information
- evaluating claims and evidence
- identifying two core challenges
- how historians could address these challenges
- helping students engage in new ways of reading
- the Critical Web Reader (CWR)
- the 'three dimensions' conceptual model
- conclusion: CWR research agenda
- questions from the audience
