Good research begins with a good question					Teach strategies for  creative and critical thinking
Pose open ended questions and activities that invite  curiosity, exploration and manipulation of ideas and materials across the curriculum  "Dalton, 1985"	The First Hook ~ Plagiarism
	Olympic Site				Curing Read and Regurgitate Disease
What is a Family?	Plan thinking activity  not just activity			Actively involve students  in their learning What does it mean to be an Aussie?
	Professional communities and pedagogy in action
The Federation Web Quest Project			Plan Thinking Units
Internet Resources			Site Overview

This website has been developed to help teachers to:-

Ø  pose open ended questions and activities that invite curiosity, exploration
and manipulation of ideas and materials across the curriculum

Ø  expose students to creative individuals and their work

Ø  emphasize the production of ideas and products by children

Ø  teach strategies for creative and critical thinking and

Ø  actively involving the children in their learning. 

Joan Dalton(1985) “Adventures in Thinking” Thomas Nelson, Australia.

Why do we have to change?

Teaching students to question, view problems from different perspectives, seek alternatives, 
risk take while actively engaging in the Information Process is a difficult undertaking, albeit very rewarding.

This website discusses ways to encourage teachers to move towards a pedagogy that embraces problem-based learning in an information rich environment – the Internet.

The First Hook: Plagiarism

Technology provides access to enormous amounts of information. 
Very quickly, a student could copy information from a CD ROM or the Internet and paste it into Microsoft Word.
Going up to the tools menu, the student could then choose Auto summarize and would have the following choices.

Ø     Highlight key points

Ø     Insert an executive summary or abstract at the top of the document

Ø     Create a new document and put summary there

Ø     Hide everything but the summary without leaving the original document

This also enables the student to select the percentage of original text to be used in the summary or the number of sentences. By dragging and dropping themes of sentences and using the thesaurus to find synonyms, the original piece soon looks entirely different in structure while keeping the content intact.
If the student is clever, they will use information from a number of sources before asking the software to work out what is important.

Using Auto summarize could be a very useful teaching tool. It can also be used as a vehicle for plagiarism. 
If that doesn’t worry you, visit http://www.schoolsucks.com and find out why this site has thousands of hits each week. Students search for their project topic and download an assignment to fit the task.

Rather than see this with negative connotations, view it as the final hook for moving teachers
towards a better way of teaching research skills and the Information process. 
Teachers need to revisit the research cycle (McKenzie, 1999) and develop their own skills in questioning.
The Internet can become an incredibly powerful tool in this process.