Research

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 * Welcome to **** your Research Subject **


 * During the next 10 weeks you will :**


 * Develop your ability to search for information on the internet
 * Learn all about search engines, browsers and URLs
 * Understand copyright laws in Australia and how to reference pictures and information legally
 * Experience how Australian teachers allocate marks for assessment tasks
 * Respond to and give a spoken report
 * Work collaboratively with others
 * Develop your opinion into a presentation using ICT
 * Inform and persuade your classmates about a topic of your choice.
 * Self and peer assess your research and presentations

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1. What are your human rights? Watch this video about your human rights. 2. Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says ** "All people are born free and equal" **. There are 30 articles. Go and have a brief look at them....here 3. Read number 2 carefully. What is it saying in your own words? Watch number 2video this video about discrimination. Why was the boy discriminated against? What lesson did the taller boy learn? 4. Look at the bottom of the webpage. Choose one right, watch the video and tell your classmates : A) What human right was the video about, B) what the video showed, C) what you have learned about this right.
 * Lesson 1: Human Rights **

Let's look more closely at the website you have been looking at. Now read the "About Us" page.answer these questions:
 * 1) What is the domain name of the website you have been looking at?
 * 2) Who made this website? - an organisation (.org), an educational institution (.edu), a company (.com)?
 * 1) Why was this website created/ What is the purpose of this website?
 * 2) What is the name of the organization that started this website?
 * 3) Who is the founder of the organization?

For next lesson: come with your ideas about what right you are going to focus on, how this right is being abused (where, when?), and be able to explain why you have chosen this right.

Time: 20 minutes Groups: 2 per group Task: francine.commeignes@det.nsw.edu.au
 * Lesson 2: Group Research **
 * Part A **
 * Do your allocated task (below)
 * Type your information on a Word document ( Time New Roman Point 14) and save in your folder.
 * Send the document as an attachment to Ms Harvey in 20 mins.

The topic is "** homelessness **".
 * 1) What is homelessness? (define) Give some statistics about homelessness in Australia.
 * 2) What are some questions you could ask about homelessness?
 * 3) What human rights are being abused in this issue?
 * 4) Find some pictures of homeless people that are emotive. "Save as" the images in your folder and copy/paste the URL (and any photographer name).
 * 5) Is this issue important? Why? Does the issue affect us?
 * 6) What could we do about homelessness?
 * 7) Find an example of someone who is homeless. Name,nationality, how/why they became homeless, any other important information.


 * Part B **
 * Watch this video about homelessness in Australia.
 * Go the the forum and respond to the discussion post.


 * Lesson 3: Assessing Websites **

//** Question: ** How do you search for useful information? // //**Answer**//: You must learn how to assess a website for its //**validity**// and //**reliability**//. Translation here


 * 5 Questions to check a website's reliability and validity **

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 * 1) **Who made it?** Can you find information about them on the site? Do you trust them?
 * 1) **Why?** What is the purpose of this website? Is it to teach you, inform you, persuade you or get you to buy something?
 * 2) **What kind of information?** Does the site just give opinions or is the information supported by facts, interviews, research, books or documents?
 * 3) **Where did the website come from?** - look at the URL for the domain name
 * 4) **When was this website published**? recently or years ago?

**Task 1**. Use the 5 questions to assess the Youth for Human Rights website

**1.** Who made the website? 2. Why? the **purpose** of this website 3. What kind of information? Can you see examples of how YforHR educates? 4. Where did the website come from? - look at the domain name in the URL.
 * What is the name of the organization that started this website? Y_ f __H__ R.
 * When was the organisation founded? (History page)
 * Who is the founder of the organization? (//Look in 'Executive Staff')//

The URL (address) of Google ** http://www.google.com. ** is broken into four parts:
 * What is the URL and what information can it tell me about the website?**
 * **HTTP ** : the way information is sent over the internet
 * **://** : Separator
 * **www**: World Wide Web
 * **Google**:The website name
 * **com **: domain name (.com for commercial.)

Other domain names. Which ones would be **reliable** for your research.
 * **.com** initially related to commercial companies. Very common.
 * **.edu** relates to educational organisations;
 * **.gov** relates to governmental organisations;
 * **.net** initially related to networks.
 * **.org** usually relate to **//not for profit//** organisations
 * **.biz** (//business//) relating to commercial companies

5. When was this website published? recently or years ago? (Look at the bottom of the page for a date)

**Task 2**. Learn about assessing websites here Which 3 questions do you think are the most important for you in your research?

**Task 1**. Learn about assessing websites here Which 3 questions do you think are the most important for you in your research?

**Task 2**. Use the checklist to assess the Youth for Human Rights website.


 * 1) What is this website's name?
 * 2) What is the domain name?
 * 3) Who made the website?
 * 4) Why did they make the site?
 * 5) "What's in it for them?' - How do the website creators benefit from making this website?
 * 6) Is the creator trying to inform and educate you or are they trying to persuade you to do/buy something?
 * 7) When was the site last updated?

**Task 3.** Revise your learning of this lesson in your own words. What have you learned today about researching for information on the internet?

**Task 4**

OK, it's time to start researching for information on your topic.
 * Lesson 4: Research your topic **

Before research questions:
 * What do I already know about the topic?
 * What do I need to research to be able to do this assessment task?

During research questions:
 * Don’t take notes during your first reading . If you are reading photocopies, underline or highlight relevant information.
 * Always make notes with the question clearly in mind . Collect some direct quotes from texts and useful examples or statistics.
 * Reference all books: Include author, date, title, publisher and place of publication.
 * Reference all websites:

Start your search here: Sweet Search for students

Exposition videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVuScVCF1Ws&feature=related Nike sweatshop and child labour Child Labour in India world poverty refugees in detention- protest Australian Human Rights examples Australian Human Rights issues Australia before the Human Rights commission Great Australian refugees


 * Think of a problem in our world. For example: child labour, human trafficking,
 * Ask some questions about the issue that you would like to explore. (who, what, where, when, why?)
 * What do you think? (hypothesis)
 * Research
 * Transform your research into a presentation
 * Present your topic to your classmates and persuade us to do something about it.

Learning: Rudd's apology

Uniform Resource Locator. The unique address of any Web document.
 * **Type of file (could say ftp: //or telnet://)** || **Domain name (computer file is on and its location on the Internet)** || **Path or directory on the computer to this file** || **Name of file, and its file extension (usually ending in .html or .htm**) ||
 * http: || www.lib.berkeley.edu/ || TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/ || FindInfo.html ||

More at the Berkley website

**Citing sources from the Internet//** Note that the article is italicised. The URL is listed along with its date and the date you accessed it. The URL is in brackets < > For example: Quinion, Michael B. (1999). Citing online sources: Advice on online citation formats , (updated 21 June 1999, accessed 12 Aug. 1999).

Author Article in italics URL Date updated Date accessed by you

Research hints

Assess:

Information skills Communication Working cooperatively Social responsibility Creativity Creating solutions Applying tecghnology Decision making Task management

Aquiring information

Initiates an inquiry Uses technology to locate information Use library, books etc Identifies bias in information Examines information from different perspectives Critically reflects on the audience, purpose and subject ,matter Discusses the usefullness of the information source Examine the purpose of the information source Evaluate the skill they have used

** The inquiry process **

Poses questions about the information' Identifies necessary info Gathers information appropriate to the task Analyse and record information <span style="font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; margin: 0px;">Use a timeline, graph or matrix <span style="font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; margin: 0px;">Synthesise and communicate information <span style="font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; margin: 0px;">Apply informatio to different situations <span style="font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; margin: 0px;">Plan and contribute to grouo activities <span style="font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; margin: 0px;">Reflect own learning

<span style="font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; margin: 0px;">Participation

<span style="font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; margin: 0px;">Works with others to achieve a common goal <span style="font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; margin: 0px;">Considers peoples rights <span style="font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; margin: 0px;">Assists in decision making <span style="font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; margin: 0px;">Reflects on the impacts of decisions <span style="font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; margin: 0px;">Is a responsible member of the team <span style="font-size: 110%; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; margin: 0px;">Participates in social group to solve problems and improve conditions