Students as 21st century users of information

1.Students as 21st Century Users of Information
IPSD 204 Institute Day
February 25, 2011
Presented by Laurie May
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2. 3. 4. Charlotte danielsonProfessional framework
The Classroom Environment
Planning and Preparation
Domain 1: Planning and Preparation
Component 1d: Demonstrating Knowledge of Resources
Resources for teaching
Resources for students

Professional Responsibility
Instruction
5. Three keys to a great search
Ask the right questions
Look in the right places
Look critically your findings
6. 7. Excerpt from Dialog Search Manual
8. = 20 quality results
9. = 1,620,000quality results
10. 11. Common craft search strategies
12. The ERIAL Project, a study conducted by 5 Illinois universities, found that students:

dont know how to form a sound search query;

13. dont have a strategy for dealing with poor results; 14. cant articulate how they know content is credible; 15. dont check the author or date of an article. (Finding Dulcinea, 2010)
16. what can we do?
Teach students that searching starts before they sit down at the computer.
Provide students with an arsenal of reliable information sources.
Teach students to become critical users of information.
Model these practices on a regular basis.
17. Formulating the Question
Whats up with that volcano in Italy?
Natural Language
Visuvius?
Vusuvios
Vesuevius?
Boolean Logic
Pre-searching
18. Where do I start?
Ask, What do I hope to find?
19. Before you start:
Develop background knowledge
Formulate keyword list
Start your search with 2 or 3 relevant words.
20. Activity Time
Do a Google search using the search terms on your worksheet. Write down the number of hits that you get with each
volcano *111,000,000
volcano..32,800,000
volcano italy...4,450,000
vesuvius 2,730,000
volcano italyvesuvius .304,000
volcano italyvesuviusnaples169,000
21. Basic strategies:
No CAPITALS
No articles(the, a, an)
Use wildcards (Usually * or ?).
Use quotation marks to search phrases.
Be systematic. Start with 2 or 3 words, then add
one at a time to narrow your topic.
22. Great! Now I only have 150,000 sites to look at!
23. Are you looking in the right place?
24. Google alternatives

Other search engines

25. Bing 26. Yahoo 27. Ask 28. Meta search engines 29. Excite 30. Dogpile