Building Research Skills for Finding Compelling Data. How about those research skills of students nowadays? I remember as a child watching TV and seeing ads for toys, my eyes bulging out and exclaiming, “I want that!” I can recall parsing through “best” catalogues and dog-earing pages for stuff that my siblings and I wanted was a precursor to our childhood Christmases. Fast forward to now. Being older and wiser, I am well aware of the hold that advertisement and marketing has on entertainment, education, and arguably all parts of our lives. Enter your innocent student child, needing to use their research skills for one assignment or another. How does one help him sift through so much information to get at the best and most reliable content? Let’s have a discussion about how to teach that. Teach Your Children Well Prepare to guide them through this process daily if not weekly, and not just in the library.
Kids need to understand the age of information and how the Internet is used in marketing. Employ Tutorials Contrast, Compare, and Challenge. 12 Ways To Use Google Search In School, By Degree Of Difficulty. Sunday, May 6, 2012 8:15 am, Posted by | Updates Topics: , , , , , , I’ve been completely obsessed with Google’s new mini-site devoted to finding better ways to incorporate proper web searches into the classroom.
Dubbed ‘ Search Education ,’Google’s new site has an array of lesson plans, videos (check a sample out below), concept maps, and other tools designed to help any educator properly integrate Google. This is just the logical next step for the search (and basically everything else) behemoth as Google pushes its way into the classroom. As part of Search Education, Google has shared a bunch of lesson plans that are organized by degree of difficulty. So, if you consider yourself and / or your students Google experts, you should try out the more advanced plans.
The following are just some of the many lesson plans brought to you by Google. Picking the right search terms Identify unique search terms to locate targeted sources and to use “context terms” to uncover appropriate evidence. KidsClick! Web Search. Interesting Search Engines.
15 Lesson Plans For Making Students Better Online Researchers.