Post on 13-Jan-2015
description
Encouraging Students to be
better Researchers
Is there life after Google?
http://childrenasresearchers.wikispaces.com/
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/reppres/gg_final_keynote_11012008.pdf
Information behaviour ofthe researcher of the future11 January 2008
Listed
Demonstrated
Labelled
Mimed
Mindmapped
Gathered
Timelined
DrawnMapped
Collected
Identified
Discussed Brainstormed
Interviewed
Described
Explained
Questioned
Matched
Stated
Classified
Graphed
Surveyed
Made Modelled
Photographed
SortedVideoed
Written
Created
Analysed
In schools now
Go to the computer and
find some information about the
‘Kiwi’
Stage One
20 million hits later…
“Go onto Google and find out some information about the kiwi.Write 5 facts!”
Still 20 million hits… no facts at the end of the lab session!
But somebodyfound a
website with lots of cool
gameshttp://www.sandiegozoo.org/kids/games/index.html
“Go onto Google and find out some information about Kiwis inNew ZealandWrite 5 facts!”
5 million hits!
Stage 4
http://www.chemistry.co.nz/kiwibird.htm
Who wrote the site? Are they an expert? What are their credentials? Does the website contain links that supports the information?
The technology behind Google’s great resultshttp://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
Keywords• keyword also key word ( ) n.
A word that serves as a key to a code or cipher. A significant or descriptive word. (www.answers.com )
• Is a word that is associated with a site or contents of a site. Keywords are used to categorize and search for specific web sites. (http://www.mantis.biz/glossary/#k )
What are keywords?
Keywords• The more keywords you have (most
of the time) the less the ‘hits’ • Try these examples and record the
number of hits
– Kiwi
– Kiwi New Zealand
– Kiwi brown spotted New Zealand
Hits
25,000,000
56,300
8,320,00Click on pages from New Zealand
Keywords• Dinosaur• Dinosaur carnivore• Dinosaur carnivore Triassic
• Tyrannosaurus • Tyrannosaurus Rex• Tyrannosaurus Rex prey
Hits• 20,300,000• 372,000• 101,000
• 13,400,000• 958,000• 78,100
Searching Google
ImagesVideos
NewZealand
Google Wonder Wheel
TimelineClick on a date in the Timeline to be directedto the Google hitsof that time
“Go onto Google, type in your keywords and find out some information about brown spotted Kiwis inNew Zealand”
Google Advanced search
Hits
But where do the Keywords come from?
Knowledge Question Keywords
Knowledge
Fact Recall
• Developing questions & keywords for research– Writing the Question– What do we know about?
• Create basic mindmaps• Save online• Others can edit it• Can be embedded into wikis and blogs
http://jacquisharp.blogspot.com/2008/06/bubblus-online-collaborative.html
http://www.bubbl.us/index
http://jacquisharp.blogspot.com/search/label/mindmapping
http://delicious.com/sharpjacqui/mindmapping
FINDING KEYWORDS
Finding Keywords can be one of the most difficult tasks for children.It is easier to think in sentence chunks or type in the whole question!
Break up the question. When choosing a keyword from the answers, check that it answers the main Question!
Internet Addresses and What they mean
Breaking down internet addresses to understand who made the website.
Fact or Opinion
• People’s first response is to believe what they see and what they hear
• Students need to be critical viewers
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBfi8OEz0rA&eurl
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hibyAJOSW8U&eurlIdeas adapted from
http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/03/11/dont-believe-everything-you-see-online/
• Use this website to guide your students to critically assess the information provided to them
• http://allaboutexplorers.com/
Ideas adapted from http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/03/11/dont-believe-everything-you-see-online/
• http://www.brookview.karoo.net/Sellafield_Zoo/ a zoo with a difference
• http://www.rythospital.com/clyven/ intelligent mouse
• http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html is this dangerous?
• http://haggishunt.scotsman.com/ hunt the haggis• http://www.genochoice.com/ designer babies• http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/
Fact or Opinion?Students will often go to any website that is offered in Google and take what they need from it without considering the authenticity of the site.
SIFTINGUse Ctrl – F (- F for Mac)
Type in one of the keywords, press Enter on KeyboardFirst instance of the word will be highlighted
Internet Explorer 8
Firefox 3
Explorer 7
Skimming & Scanning through the information
Tsunamis are unlike wind-generated waves, which many of us may have observed on a local lake or at a coastal beach, in that they are characterized as shallow-water waves, with long periods and wave lengths.
If yes, then copyand paste that sentence only intoyour notes page
EXTENDING THE RESEARCH PROCESS
Search Engines, Web2.0, Youtube, news feeds…
Be Smart with Googlehttp://childrenasresearchers.wikispaces.com/Be+Smart+with+Google
Single word search
• Set up a bundle• Under the bundle name
of Social Studies (or perhaps the name of the topic
Set up a class delicious pagewith links to different curriculumareas, games and resources
Bookmark suitable sites for children to go to
http://wheretostartwithwikisandblogs.wikispaces.com/Delicious
To set up a Delicious account you need a Yahoo account. If you have an ‘xtra’ account then you will be able to
use that.
Don’t completely avoid Wikipedia
• Use your keywords • browse the
– Footnotes – References– External Links– Images and video
http://search.creativecommons.org/
Videos on what Creative Commons is http://creativecommons.org/videos/#wwt
Free content on the Internet
http://jacquiscourses.blogspot.com/2009/11/download-youtube-movies.html
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharpjacqui• Accesses images on any computer that has internet
access
• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/reppres/gg_final_keynote_11012008.pdf What do we know about young peoples information behaviour
• http://www.morguefile.com/ free photos• http://www.freephotosbank.com/ free photos• http://school.discovery.com/clipart/ free clipart• Hot Potatoes download
http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/hot_pot_download.php• Youtubehttp://youtube.com/ Teacher tube http://teachertube.com/• Artragehttp://www.ambientdesign.com• Comic Life http://http://plasq.com/comiclife• Web2.0 and Education http://jacquisharp.blogspot.com• Sharp, J. (2006). Graphic Organisers. Ideas and activities with CD.