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Re search ing: Helping Students navigate a mountain of knowledge

Re search ing: Helping Students navigate a mountain of knowledge. Digital Learning Series Digital Citizen Skills - Librarian Edition. Questions?. At anytime during the presentation please feel free to key in a question in the chat window. I will read and respond as they come in!

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Re search ing: Helping Students navigate a mountain of knowledge

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  1. Researching: Helping Students navigate a mountain of knowledge Digital Learning Series Digital Citizen Skills - Librarian Edition

  2. Questions? At anytime during the presentation please feel free to key in a question in the chat window. I will read and respond as they come in! If I am going to fast please help me to press pause!

  3. What does it mean to be a 21st Century learner?

  4. Challenge Based Learning

  5. Critical Thinking Skills

  6. Inquiry Based Learning

  7. Connected Learning

  8. Project Based Learning

  9. The “4Cs” • collaboration, communication, critical thinking, & creativity • Think … How can I as a librarian accommodate the 4Cs?

  10. Changing face of education. • Students are not just looking for an answer anymore. • We are asking students to look at the facts, think, make judgments and share their findings. (more of this in the inquiry presentation I am sure!) • This is where we as teachers and librarians can play a huge role.

  11. Digital Citizenship

  12. In light of searching • If it can be googled is it worth learning? • Is googlingdumbing us down? Points to ponder as a result of a discussion with George Krahn (aka Joe).

  13. Learning to search • One can not assume a student knows how to search. • Often they don’t even question the search results– if it’s on the internet it must be true! • Often they never consider the validity or authenticity of a website.

  14. Searching • There is a strong need to explicitly teach search skills to students. • They need to know legitimate online research involves much more than 10 seconds with Google and copy-pasting the Wikipedia links. • Do not assume anything.

  15. Starting with spears! • An ancient tools project. Students are expected to build a tool that early humans may have constructed and used.

  16. Ask no questions • How can I go about making an ancient spear for my social studies project? • Every word is included in a search. • Students need to think about refining a search to the most important words for the topic • Well thought search  ancient spears materials

  17. Getting rid of the unwanted • A basic search of spears • A better search spear –britney

  18. The Exact Phrase • Want to be more specific? • A search for ancient spears would find all the pages of both or either term. • Add quote around words and Google searches for that exact phrase. • ie. “ancient spears” • At times the results differences can be subtle with the non quote top hits simply being more general.

  19. A needle in a hay stack! • Imagine searching for someone named Michael Kenny Jackson. • Try with or without the quotation marks (“ ”) – any difference?

  20. Search word precision is key! • To the student explicitly … • Precise key terms and eliminating unwanted key terms (-) generates great search results.

  21. Refining the results further • To keep our search confined to the field of education we may also add site: in our search • for a search of all education sites • site:edu spears – yields articles on spears from educational .edu sites only. • for a search of a single site • site:cbc.ca spears – yields articles on spears from cbc.ca only.

  22. More on refining your search • Google search tricks explained.* • Tips for searching like a pro from Google. • Google made Classroom posters (the first and last one are good!) Print and post!

  23. More searching tips • Watch Google’s search suggestions assistant for proper wording and keyword suggestion. • Great for humor as well.

  24. Narrowing the search • Google has a pile of interesting ways to search. You can even narrow your search by using the left side search options or clicking on the advanced search on settings icon. • Ie. File type or currency. • Consider a visual media view using What do you love? (by Google) • http://www.wdyl.com/# • eg.

  25. Go even deeper … • How proper online research works. • Help your students become better searchers with lesson plans and activities from google. • http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/index.html

  26. Beyond google search • Consider one of these search tools the next time a student asks for assistance to look something up. • http://duckduckgo.com/ (a non tracking search) • The best of 2012 search engines • Search engines for kids – awesome list

  27. Assessing Web Site Credibility • Often the best way to teach website credibility is to show by example. • For example if students are asked to research an Endangered Species of their choice …

  28. Bogus site http://www.sudftw.com/jackcon.htm

  29. Credible site http://worldwildlife.org/species

  30. The concept of Credibility • Credibility criteria. The list may include: • Authorship – Author vs. Authority • perspective • consistency with experts • documentation of sources • currency • mechanics • Usability • Evaluating Web Site Credibility • Full teacher tool kit available @ Learn Alberta http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/ssmt/html/assessingwebsitecredibility_mt.html

  31. Tools to determine Web Site Credibility • Tools to determine Web Site Credibility are listed on

  32. Sask Learning’s Online Databases • http://www.education.gov.sk.ca/ • A nice collection of Magazines, Journals and Newspapers that are credible. • Many of the sites are only accessible within our schools.

  33. Consider using sweetsearch • Sweet Search is a search engine for students that searches 35,000 websites that research experts, librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved. • http://www.sweetsearch.com/

  34. Citing Websites http://www.bibme.org/

  35. Citing Websites http://www.easybib.com/

  36. Questions? • As learning technologists we are eager to assist you as well: • Small steps to becoming cybrarians! • Springshare by Saskatoon Public • There is plenty more on Digital Citizenship as well!

  37. @jrswanster • Find this presentation @ ubershare.wikispaces.com/libraries!

  38. Cited sources • http://leadinginnovation2012.wikispaces.com/Digital+Citizenship • http://nets-implementation.iste.wikispaces.net/Digital+Citizenship • http://www.byrdseed.com/teaching-search-skills/ • http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/ssmt/html/assessingwebsitecredibility_mt.html • http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/navigatingthenet/tp/How-to-Properly-Research-Online.htm

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