mets 2014 finding information
DESCRIPTION
A workshop exploring how we can introduce the skills of finding and selecting information using ICTTRANSCRIPT
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Searching for and using online information
Seán GallagherPDST Technology in Education
www.pdst.ie www.pdsttechnologyineducation.ie
@sgpdst
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? T.S. Eliot
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Search for the answers!
• What film company gave George Lucas his first job?
• Who founded the company?
• Where was he from?
• The father of which Irish President was executed for gun-running on the Asgard?
• Name the sea stack just off Downpatrick Head in North Mayo?
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Comprehension strategies
• Lost by the convenience of search engines?
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Primary sources
• Journals
• Newspapers
• Magazines
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Dictionary on demand
• Embedded sound files
• Can be added directly to a browser
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www.focloir.ie
• Canuintí
• Connacht; Mumhan; Uladh
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How to search
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• Trusted source
• Reference the source
• Start with one source initially
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www.scoilnet.ie
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• Age appropriate resources
• Factual information; related multimedia and interactivity
• Text to speech for reluctant readers
• Double click a word to initiate inbuilt dictionary
• Learn the skills of searching safely
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Search engines for students
• www.sweetsearch.com
• www.refseek.com
• duckduckgo.com
• www.instagrok.com
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Getting the most out of google
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Conducting a well-executed search on Google
Using search ‘operators’ can lead to more specific results. We will explore some of the more useful ones now!
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Operators• Use ‘site:’ followed by a website name to confine
your search to a given site
• Use ‘~’ followed by a search term to find related words
• Use quotations marks “ “ around words to search for use of those words together
• Use ‘-’ followed by a search term to exclude that term from the search
• Use ‘…’ between parameters to return searches from that range
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Search for
Irish Times articles in relation to Junior Cycle reform in secondary schools but without reference to Leaving Certificate – confine it from 2011 to 2014
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Possibility
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More specific return?
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More operatorsSearch for a specific filetype by using ‘filetype:’
followed by the extension to specify the file required – pdf, doc, docx etc
Use ‘intitle:’ followed by a search item to return a search with specified title items
Use ‘*’ followed by a search item to return a search of terms that are similar
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Another example…
Find an article in pdf format detailing primary school athletics
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Google Scholar
Library of reference material
Cite
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Other functions
Definitions – define:
Calculator – operation in search box
Unit converter – directly in search box
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Comprehension strategies
• Lost by the convenience of search engines?
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ConclusionWe are drowning in information, while starving in for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by
synthesisers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about
it, and make important choices wisely…….. E.O Wilson