What’s App’ening? Teaching Students Critical Thinking Skills Via Online Research Tools

Virtual Brief Paper ID: 47676
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    Kim Lorber
    Ramapo College of New Jersey

Abstract: Students are becoming increasingly enmeshed with the magical devices known as smart phones and tablets. While resources and information can be more easily accessed than ever before, the critical thinking skills previously required to glean a modicum of the Internet’s relevant offerings from desktop browsers has, in many cases, been compromised. The easy access and dependency or preference of many students to use apps instead of mobile browsers has paradoxically created an increasing number of isolated students, absent skills needed to find relevant and vetted assignment information online. As a result, students often cannot conduct the most elementary Google search, become easily frustrated, and submit incomplete tasks. This paper addresses ways to use educational scaffolding with which to build students’ skills through beginning basic steps, which will ultimately lead them to become critical thinkers who can identify important information resources versus others, inappropriate to acad

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