We Need to Rethink How We Teach Research
Curtis Chandler
We Need to Rethink How We Teach Research
A MiddleWeb Blog
For years, many of us have assigned research projects assuming students already know how to do the work involved. When students turn in copied paragraphs from a website or shaky AI summaries, it’s tempting to see it as laziness.
More often, though, it reflects something else entirely: the actual ‘work’ of research – the searching, vetting, and critical thinking – is invisible and inaccessible to them.
Lately, I’ve been working with...