"Understanding the differences between primary and secondary sources can be a challenge to some middle school and high school students. "
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Tech tools that assist all students to be independent learners & teachers to become better teachers
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Beth Dichter
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"SummarizeThis is a free tool that summarizes the main point(s) of long articles that you find on the web. To use SummarizeThis you just copy and paste text into the summary box and click "summarize." A summary of the text then appears above the original text that you copied."
Beth Dichter's insight:
This tool look interesting and you might have students use it when they are doing research. We know how hard it can be to get students to read longer articles. This has the potential to let them see if his article is important to their topic. Will it help them answer their questions? 
Intriguing Networks's curator insight,
December 3, 2013 3:35 AM
B Possibly not just for teachers, but if it works so well then maybe the authors might need to think again, 'brevity the soul of wit' 
Phil Turner's curator insight,
December 3, 2013 6:03 PM
This looks surprisingly effective (in my test of one article) ... and could be a useful first order tool for scanning large amounts of work. Students might learn to summarise/paraphrase by looking carefully at how the results relate to the original text (if they can resist just cutting and pasting the new words). 
Tracy Shaw's curator insight,
December 10, 2013 6:58 PM
Here's a cool tool for teachers! Time saver. |
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Beth Dichter's insight:
If your students have Google accounts you might consider having them use Google Slides to help them organize research. With the tools available for searching next to the slides it is an easy way for them to begin to organize their materials. Richard Byrne has created a video that walks you through what to do.
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"Google Books is one of the research tools that Google offers, but a lot of students overlook. Google Books can be a good place for students to look for books and look within books that can help them with their research projects."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Have you checked out Google Books as a tool for research? Richard Byrne provides a great overview of how to have your students use this tool. He also provides a slideshow with directions that include screenshots.
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Help your student learn the differences between primary and seconary sources by sharing this video by Common Craft. What makes primary resources important? When it is better to use secondary resources? How to they interact with each other? This two minute video will provide an overview that will help your students deepen their understanding.