ED 262 Research, Reference & Resource Skills

Academic search engine for students and researchers. Locates relevant academic search results from web pages, books, encyclopedias, and journals.

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For the past decade, we’ve seen marketing trends come and go. But there is one type of content that has paid off time and time again that flies under the radar: original research.
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"Tell an embarrassing story.  It’ll make you more creative."

Read the full article to find out how to use embarrassing stories to improve the results of your brainstorming sessions.

How To Teach Students To Research Without Google

Given below is a list of some of the best academic search engines that will help you get the research material you want quickly and easily, and without compromising on quality.

The Digitally Literate research project seeks to document instructional use of digital texts & tools in global classrooms.

This study will focus on the knowledge, skills, and dispositions utilized by educators as they embed digital texts and tools in literacy instruction. We will sampling broadly to identify educators across global settings who are authentically and effectively embedding digital literacies into instruction. Our focus extends from early childhood to to higher education settings.

Learn how to teach research skills to primary students, middle school students, or high school students. 50 activities that could be done in just a few minutes a day. Lots of Google search tips and research tips for kids and teachers.

How To Teach Students To Research Without Google

Free Research And Development PowerPoint Template is a simple template for making presentations to present your R&D findings or to present an R&D strategy.

Open research is about more than open access. It is about making all aspects of the research process open to all possible interested parties. Ahead of a workshop and hackathon later this week, Bian…

"The highest form of intelligence."
The study, titledThe Highest Form of Intelligence: Sarcasm Increases Creativity Through Abstract Thinking for Both Expressers and Recipients, was conducted by a team of researchers from Harvard, Columbia, and Insead. The team tested the effects of sarcasm by having volunteers engage in a sincere, a sarcastic, or a neutral (control) exchange before completing a task designed to assess their creativity.

What did the researchers find? Sarcasm, it turns out, is a pretty good mental workout. "To create or decode sarcasm, both the expressers and recipients of sarcasm need to overcome the contradiction (i.e., psychological distance) between the literal and actual meanings of the sarcastic expressions. This is a process that activates and is facilitated by abstraction, which in turn promotes creative thinking," Harvard's Francesca Gino, who participated in the study, explained in the Harvard Gazette.

The result was "those in the sarcasm conditions subsequently performed better on creativity tasks than those in the sincere conditions or the control condition. This suggests that sarcasm has the potential to catalyze creativity in everyone," Adam Galinsky, another member of the research team, added. In short, sarcastic comments make your whole team more creative, so go ahead and let fly with the occasional snide-but-hilarious comment. Thanks, science!