Reading Reflection 8

The first important thing that I found in Chapter 8 was the point that the author made about Google. I can definitely connect with the idea of not wanting to do any further research when we can just type our question into Google and the answer comes up immediately. I was also amazed by how they went around that problem that they were having with the students. Teaching students about credible/reliable sources is incredibly important and I loved how they used that as a way to get students interested in conducting their own research. They taught the students that it is better to conduct their own research and to compare their findings to what they discover online than to click on the first "result" on Google and to take that as the end-all-be-all. Another important aspect of Chapter 8 was about classroom discussion. Teacher to teacher discussion is important because it is a way for teachers to connect and talk about what worked well and what didn't work so well in their classrooms. Teachers can then take the best parts of both of their experiences to make the project the most beneficial for the students. Also, student to student discussion, students can only learn so much from the teachers but if they're able to communicate with their classmates about what is working well for them in their projects, what can be improved upon, and their overall experiences, they'll be able to learn from one another as well.