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Digital Literacy - Internet - Searching Skills

Page history last edited by Teachesict 11 years, 9 months ago

BACK TO DIGITAL LITERACY HOMEPAGE

 

Browse the lists below to find resources to help you deliver this section of #digitalstudies

Resources are not added in any order; however, to make it easier to find something that you can use in the classroom, each column can be sorted by simply clicking on the top row.

 

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Article   Why can't kids search? Free

So what is it that our students need to conquer to be able and capable searchers?  I suspect that these ten points are just the tip of the iceberg:

Useful short article giving some points as to what pupils should be doing @novanews19 @teachesict
Article - Wired.com   Why kids can't search Free His team gathered a group of college students and asked them to look up the answers to a handful of questions. Perhaps not surprisingly, the students generally relied on the web pages at the top of Google’s results list. But Pan pulled a trick: He changed the order of the results for some students. More often than not, those kids went for the bait and also used the (falsely) top-ranked pages. Pan grimly concluded that students aren’t assessing information sources on their own merit—they’re putting too much trust in the machine. Shows that pupils tend to just pick from the first websites returned when using google @wired @teachesict
Website - BBC Webswise Y Searching Free Excellent collection of webpages and videos to teach your pupils about search engines and search techniques   @teachesict
Video   Search Strategies Free

This video introduces the best ways to use search engines to find information on the Web. It uses real-world examples that illustrate ways to reduce useless results

  @commoncraft @teachesict

 

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