Eclectic Technology

What can we do to make our students better at online searching? Here is an article that provides tools to help your students learn to be better online researchers. Students need to lear to focus and 'distill [the] idea into a few key specific search terms', a skill we must teach.

The post provides suggestions on how to teach digital literacy skills. The levels that need to be taught are (quoting from the post):

* It begins as a critical thinking and language skill...

* Utilizing various "search help" tools that may search engines offer...

* Critically sorting through the results...

* Sometimes, supply your kids with the internet resources you want then to use...

A list of useful links is also included.

"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...

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. If you don’t know what ‘boolean’ means, then you probably should start with the more basic stuff.

The following are just some of the many lesson plans brought to you by Google. Check out the site for more info!"