Students engage the audience’s attention, convey ideas in a logical manner and use reliable evidence to support a point of view. (5)
INFORMATION HAS VALUE
Information possesses several dimensions of value, including as a commodity, as a means of education, as a means to influence, and as a means of negotiating and understanding the world. Legal and socioeconomic interests influence information production and dissemination.
KNOWLEDGE PRACTICES
• value the original ideas of others;
RESEARCH AS INQUIRY
Research is iterative and depends upon asking increasingly complex or new questions whose answers in turn develop additional questions or lines of inquiry in any field.
KNOWLEDGE PRACTICES
• organize information in meaningful ways;
• synthesize ideas gathered from multiple sources;