"Seek in order to find: the pupils' space", information searching tool

Information and communication technologies (ITC), teaching by projects, frames of reference for an approach to information searching: these three expressions are interlinked. The arrival of the Internet and the progressive establishment of ITC in schools have re-launched interest in the information searching. The "project teaching" approach, which makes pupils actors in their own apprenticeships, is often used in conjunction with an approach to information searching, such as that presented on the site "Chercher pour trouver : L'espace des élèves". We retrace here the origins of the site, explain the insertion of a problem solving course in a policy for pupil training, suggest resources proposed for the site and show how this tool has been integrated into the Form@net project.
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