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Teaching the Buggers to Think is written by Duncan Grey and published by Continuum at
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Kevin Kelly, New York Times, May 14th 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/magazine/14publishing.html

The Peppered Moth
http://www.arn.org/docs/wells/jw_pepmoth.htm

http://www.bible.ca/tracks/textbook-fraud-pepper-moth-biston-betularia.htm

http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/articles/7719_responses_to_jonathan_wells3_11_28_2001.asp://

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_mothwww.bible.c

http://www.bible.ca/false.htm

http://www.google.co.uk/

Were dinosaurs on Noah's Ark?

http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2001/dinos_on_ark.asp

http://www.biblicalgeology.net/

http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/nature-online/dino-directory/timeline.dsml?disp=gall&sort=Genus

National Curriculum http://www.nc.uk.net/webdav/harmonise?Page/@id=6016

Commonwealth War Graves http://www.cwgc.org

BBC Multi-Faith Calendar http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/

National Curriculum http://curriculum.qca.org.uk/subjects/index.aspx

Statistics

National Statistics Online http://www.statistics.gov.uk

Fedstats http://www.fedstats.gov/

US Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/

BBC Multi-Faith Calendar http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/

WebQuests UK http://www.webquestuk.org.uk/
Teachers First – Putting Discovery into the Curriculum
http://www.teachersfirst.com/summer/webquest/quest-a.shtml
The Radio Days WebQuest http://www.thematzats.com/radio/

Plan a Holiday http://www.putlearningfirst.com/holiday/

UK Census returns, births marriages and deaths. Visit http://www.1837online.com/

Local study http://www.putlearningfirst/brampton/

Plague Disaster Project at http://www.putlearningfirst.com/plague/

PBL - University of Delaware website at http://www.udel.edu/pbl/

Chapter 3

Questions http://www.wildbirds.com/identify_quick.htm

Defining The Task http://www.putlearningfirst.com/holiday/step1.html

Making Decisions http://www.cfbt.com/evidenceforeducation/default.aspx?page=316

Brainstorming http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Problem Solving http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/critical.htm

Identifying Sources http://www.putlearningfirst.com/holiday/step2.html

Selecting Sources http://www.putlearningfirst.com/holiday/step3.html

Finding Information Within Sources http://www.putlearningfirst.com/holiday/tips/tips3.html

Skimming http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/reading/techniques/skimming/index.shtml
Scanning http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/reading/techniques/scanning/index.shtml
Speed Reading http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newISS_03.htm

Evaluating Material http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/

Strengths and weaknesses of resources http://www.putlearningfirst.com/holiday/tasks/tasks41.html
Accuracy and Reliability http://www.putlearningfirst.com/holiday/tips/tips4.html
Web Hoaxes http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/
The good, the bad and the ugly http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html

Note Makingn Mind Tools http://www.mindtools.com/mindmaps.html
Free Mind – free Mind Mapping software http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Sorting and Arranging

Scrivener, http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html

Zotero http://www.zotero.org/

Mind Mapping software http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Developing Ideas http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/publications/literacy/63553/

Presenting http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/ schemes2/ secondary_ICT/ ict02/

Writing Clearly

Summarising http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/reading/summarising/factsheet.shtml
The Owl Writing Lab http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

Rhetoric

The Forest of Rhetoric http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm
Rhetoric, Language in Use http://www.putlearningfirst.com/language/20rhet/20rhet.html

Citing Sources Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/

Evaluation and Review http://www.sci-journal.org/

Chapter 4

Big 6 http://www.big6.com/

Chapter 5

Duncan’s essential reference page at http://www.putlearningfirst.com/dunk/ref.html

Modern Life Is Rubbish http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/article/top-10-most-common-passwords

Combatting Identity Theft http://www.idtheft.gov/reports/StrategicPlan.pdf

Consumer Report http://www.consumer.gov

Hoaxes http://www.sophos.com/security/hoaxes/

Chapter 6

The Library / Resources Centre

The Booktrust http://www.booktrust.org.uk/
Book lists from Booktrusted http://www.booktrusted.com/
School spending on books http://www.booktrust.org.uk/schoolspending/report.htm
The Book Check Assessor at http://www.books-raise-standards.co.uk/
School Library Association http://www.sla.org.uk

Chapter 7

iTools http://www.itools.com/

Noodle Tools http://www.noodletools.com/

Yahoo http://yahoo.co.uk

Tucows http://www.tucows.com

Download.com http://www.download.com/

Scrivener http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html

Hyperword https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1941

Open Office http://www.openoffice.org/

VisuWords http://www.visuwords.com/

Chapter 8

Wikipedia http://en/wikipedia.org

iGoogle http://www.google.co.uk/ig?hl=en

Pageflakes http://www.pageflakes.com/

Chapter 9

Plagiarism http://www.lemoyne.edu/library/plagiarism/index.htm
Plan a Holiday http://www.putlearningfirst.com/holiday/
American Library Association - Information Literacy http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/acrlinfolit/informationliteracy.htm
Comparison of Information Skills Process Models
http://www.big6.com/showarticle.php?id=87
Blooms Taxonomy of Learning Skills
http://www.coun.uvic.ca/learn/program/hndouts/bloom.html
Mind Tools SWOT analysis
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMC_05.htm
Mind Tools Information Skills
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/main/newMN_ISS.htm
The School Library and the Key Stage 3 Strategy
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/keystage3/respub/en_library
Handling Data at KS3 ICT
http://ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/keystage3ictstrategy/KS3Handlingdata.htm
WebQuests UK
http://www.webquestuk.org.uk/
Bogus Research Uncovered
http://www.work-learning.com/chigraph.htm
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/critical.htm
Thinking Skills in Primary Schools
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/thinkingskills/
Author’s Licensing & Collecting Society Ltd
http://www.alcs.co.uk
The Microsoft Office Templates for education at
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/
PowerPoint in the Classroom at
http://www.actden.com/pp/
PowerPoint tutorials
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line_powerpoint.htm
Effective use of PowerPoint in History lessons
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/powerpoint/

School of Information & Management Systems, Berkeley (2003) 'How Much Information? 2003'
http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/execsum.htm#method
The Expanding Digital Universe: A Forecast of Worldwide Information Growth Through 2010
http://www.emc.com/about/destination/digital_universe/

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