Skip to main content

Home/ Groups/ Radney's Study Skills Group
Rss Feed
Sort By: Most Recent | Popular Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
J.Randolph Radney

Building Good Search Skills: What Students Need to Know | MindShift - 0 views

mindshift.kqed.org/...lls-what-students-need-to-know

search skills students 21stcentury web2.0

shared by J.Randolph Radney on 20 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Internet has made researching subjects deceptively effortless for students — or so it may seem to them at first. Truth is, students who haven’t been taught the skills to conduct good research will invariably come up short
  • His article is responding to a larger, ongoing conversation about whether the ubiquity of Web search is good or bad for serious research. The false dichotomy short-circuits the real question: “What do students really need to know about online search to do it well?” As long as we’re not talking about this question, we’re essentially ignoring the subtleties of Web search rather than teaching students how to do it expertly.
  • Search competency is a form of literacy, like learning a language or subject.
  • ...4 more annotations...
  • Research is not a one-step process. It has distinct phases, each with its own requirements.
  • What students need to be competent at is identifying the kind of source they’re finding, decoding what types of evidence it can appropriately provide, and making an educated choice about whether it matches their task.
  • It’s important for students to ask themselves early on in their search, “When I type in these words, what do I expect to see in my results?” and then evaluate whether the results that appear match those expectations. Identifying problems or patterns in results is one of the most important skills educators can help students develop, along with evaluating credibility.
  • Knowing what tools and filters are available and how they work allows students to find what they seek
1 - 9 of 9
Showing 20▼ items per page