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Teach Students to Search Correctly on Google. Basic Search Education Lesson Plans - GoogleWebSearchEducation. 8 Google Search Skills Every Student Should Have. March 15, 2014 Teaching students how to become smart consumers of digital content starts with teaching them first how to effectively search the web and find what they are looking for. One wonderful resource I have been consulting for the last couple of years is Daniel Russell's blog SearResearch where he provides tips, ideas, activities, and lesson plans on how to engage and improve students search literacy.
A few months ago Russell shared a detailed article explaining some aspects of advanced Google searching.This TipSheet as he called it contains 8 skills students should develop in order for them to be able to conduct effective online searching. With each of these skills Russel provided a set of activities and a lesson plan to teach that skill to your students. I highly recommend that you have a look at his work and probably adapt some of his ideas with your students in your class. Below is a quick rou-up of these 8 search skills and you can access the regional article here . 'SMART' Goals Can Sometimes Be Dumb. Every company in existence has set its share of SMART goals (most commonly defined as Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-bound).
Now, some of those criteria (like Specific and Measurable) are perfectly fine. But other parts (like Achievable and Realistic) make SMART goals pretty dumb. Why? Because too often they act as impediments to, not enablers of, bold action, and actually encourage mediocre and poor performance. “Hold on a minute,” achievable and realistic SMART goals seem to say. Think about it for a second; the late Steve Jobs exhorted his people to greatness with rallying cries like “We’re here to put a dent in the universe.” Consider the most significant goal you’ve ever achieved.
Was that accomplishment easy or hard to achieve? What did this simple exercise just tell you about your history with really significant goals (what I call HARD Goals)? This is quite the opposite of what SMART Goals tell us (i.e. goals should be achievable and realistic). Setting SMART Goals. Setting SMART goals allow you the best chance of success. SMART goals are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time bound.
Specific Specifics help us to focus our efforts and clearly define what we want to accomplish. "I want to lose 10 pounds" is better than "I want to lose weight. " Measurable Your goals must be measurable. Achievable Nothing happens without action. If you can't control the outcome of your goal (I want to win the lottery), it's not a real goal. Relevant Your goals should inspire you. Time Specific Anybody who starts a goal with "someday I want to... " will never achieve the goal. Personal Goal Setting - How to Set SMART Goals - from MindTools.com. Planning to Live Your Life Your Way Learn how to set effective personal goals.
Many people feel as if they're adrift in the world. They work hard, but they don't seem to get anywhere worthwhile. A key reason that they feel this way is that they haven't spent enough time thinking about what they want from life, and haven't set themselves formal goals. Goal setting is a powerful process for thinking about your ideal future, and for motivating yourself to turn your vision of this future into reality. The process of setting goals helps you choose where you want to go in life. Why Set Goals? Top-level athletes, successful business-people and achievers in all fields all set goals. By setting sharp, clearly defined goals, you can measure and take pride in the achievement of those goals, and you'll see forward progress in what might previously have seemed a long pointless grind. Starting to Set Personal Goals You set your goals on a number of levels: Step 1: Setting Lifetime Goals Tip: SMART Goals.
Writing SMART Goals. Search Education – Google.