למידה, אינטרנט ... ומה שביניהם

בעיניי, שימוש מושכל בגוגל, דורש הפעלה של שיקול דעתם של התלמידים ו/או הסטודנטים, שזה איננו דבר נלמד, אלא נרכש עצמאית וקיים אצל כל אחד ואחת מאיתנו.

אין איזשהו ״מערך״ שיעור לחיפוש בגוגל.

Ms. Rief worries that a new generation of teachers has been raised on standardized testing and thinks that is the norm. Ms. Rief fears that public schools where teachers are trusted to make learning fun are on the way out. Ms. Rief understands that packaged curriculums and standardized assessments offer schools an economy of scale that she and her kind cannot compete with.

תוויות: חיפוש, מידענות, רכישת מיומנויות

הבעיה מדווחת בספרות המקצועית כבר למעלה מעשור

Who’s to blame? Not the students. If they’re naive at Googling, it’s because the ability to judge information is almost never taught in school. Under 2001’s No Child Left Behind Act, elementary and high schools focus on prepping their pupils for reading and math exams. And by the time kids get to college, professors assume they already have this skill. The buck stops nowhere. This situation is surpassingly ironic, because not only is intelligent search a key to everyday problem-solving, it also offers a golden opportunity to train kids in critical thinking.

“Kids” are given some assignment and want to get it done as fast as possible, to satisfy what is being set in front of them. They give the top results ... because the question they are asked to “research” does not matter much to them.

When we talk of searching, we are talking the basic most bottom of the pyramid structure motivational task. Frankly, I don’t care if kids can “search”– I want to know what happens when they seek.

תוויות: חיפוש, מידענות, רכישת מיומנויות

תוויות: דיגיטאליות, חיפוש, כתיבה

תוויות: חיפוש

Searching for Educational Resources Online Is About to Get Much Easier

תוויות: חיפוש

תוויות: חיפוש, רכישת מיומנויות

What fascinates me the most about this and the earlier article is that there are apparently a huge number of people typing fully-formed questions into Google rather than just a string of keywords. What do they think Google is, the Oracle at Delphi?

To us librarians, this phenomenon has huge implications for what we do in our own little search engines aka catalogues.

You're a librarian, but it sounds like your searching strategies are about 4-5 years out of date. Search engines have gotten much better at natural language questions. Read the article again -- Google is not only answering natural language questions here; it's also making suggestions of other natural language questions!

The clear benefit of trying a natural language question first, then trying keywords strings, is that you might find the exact wording somewhere online. *Precision* is much greater. The "natural language doesn't work and entering stopwords is pointless" thing hasn't been true for years -- there are no stopwords anymore (or, more precisely, stopwords are handled differently today than they were 5 years ago, when they were just ignored).

The search strategies taught in library schools are often outdated. This is one example.

תוויות: חיפוש, מידענות

There was one BIG miss about this presentation. They felt you should provide students with a list of Internet resources, and NOT LET THEM USE GOOGLE ON THEIR OWN, because it’s not efficient, they don’t know what they are doing, and they will learn it later.

I was once of this opinion myself, but let me explain why this is NOT a good idea. You need to teach them how to search effectively and efficiently. They need to start learning by middle school, and not after otherwise, they will pick up bad habits, and not learn how to search effectively. Then, when they are older, they will already have bad search habits.

תוויות: חיפוש, מידענות

Through its voracious efforts to include more of everything under its brand, Google has fostered a more seamless, democratized global, cosmopolitan information ecosystem yet contributed to the steady commercialization of higher education and erosion of standards of information quality.

researchers are more likely to echo prevailing consensus and narrow the imagination on which research relies.

Popularity stands in for quality assessment.

Paradoxically, the very reliance on the principles of peer review within Google and reliance on the principles of peer review in the Google PageRank algorithm have undermined an appreciation for distinctions among information sources - at least among university students.

תוויות: אוריינויות, חיפוש

Study: Google does a brain good

Members of the technologically advanced group had more than twice the neural activation than their less experienced counterparts while searching online. Activity occurred in the region of the brain that controls decision-making and complex reasoning ....

that when we get good at some activity, our brains will react differently compared to people who aren’t good at it

Can't say I quite follow the leap to Google and online searching being good for our brains. I'm sure many educators (parents) wish it to be true: "Look, little Johnny is searching on Google. He's getting to be so smart".

I can’t help but get a little annoyed when studies that purport to show something end up showing us basically nothing.

תוויות: הרהורים, חיפוש

Just came from my first period English 10 class, and in the spirit of the instantaneous pouring forth of thoughts favored by the modern world, I thought I’d share something. On many Fridays, for our warm up, I give the class what I call a poetry song. Today the song was Vertical Horizon’s “Everything You Want,” which I like to use because its ambiguity usually sparks some discussion. Today the class stared at the lyrics mystified for a long time. Nothing. I finally asked, what sort of song is this – is it about politics? Relationships? Sports? A couple of brave souls ventured guesses: yes, it’s about a relationship. Maybe it’s about God. A brief discussion, then more silence. I asked, How could we figure this out? Their answer: Google. Meanwhile, I had a Macbeth assignment for them to work on, so I said, Maybe we can google this later in the class.

And then, from the back of the room came the voice of Steve saying, “I already have.”

Steve had fired up his iPhone or equivalent and searched for the song. He said he only found a couple of comments, and they just seemed to be someone’s opinion, not a definitive answer (such as, say, the band itself revealing what they really meant).

On the way back to the English office, several thoughts populated my mind:

Good thing I didn’t see Steve fiddling with his phone and take it away before he could contribute to class.

תוויות: בלוגים, חיפוש, סלולארי, שימוש בבתי ספר

Here's how to begin using the mouse:

1. Rest the heel of your hand on the table in front of the mouse.
2. Place your thumb on one side and your ring and little finger on the other side.
3. Use those fingers and your thumb to move the mouse around on the mouse pad.
4. Move the mouse until the cursor is positioned on the underlined number one below.

Recently at work we whiled away a coffee break discussing the controversy over writing famous people’s obituaries in advance. While we were having the discussion Anna Nicole Smith came up. Not her name; nobody could remember her name. We were totally stumped. We knew she had passed away shortly after her son, but that’s all we could remember.

Eventually someone went to Google and typed:

that woman who died after her son died

... and Anna Nicole Smith in a CNN story was the second result, and had her Wikipedia page on the first page of results.

I was rather surprised. After all, I do a lot of talking about how people should get as specific as possible. And while the query above presents a couple of facts, it was very generic.

In five years, Microsoft expects more Internet searches to be done through speech than through typing on a keyboard, Gates told about 1,200 students and faculty members Thursday at Carnegie Mellon University.

תוויות: הקנייה, חיפוש

The perfect page is out there somewhere. It's the page that has exactly the information you're looking for and to you it's beautiful and unattainable like a faraway star. If only you had a super-sized net for capturing it!

תוויות: חיפוש, מידענות