Search Like a ProLucy Gray • Tech Forum Chicago 2012

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Google’s Mission

Online contentBillions of web pages

Offline contentBillions of items becoming

indexed

To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible

and useful.

A New Digital Divide• Those who know how to “think” about search

vs. those don’t.

• Those who know how to validate soft information vs. those don’t.

• Those who know where to find information in new “hot” channels vs. those don’t.

• Those who understand the current culture of informal languages vs. those don’t

A New Digital Divide• Those who know how to get information to

travel to them vs. those who still chase it.

• Those who have the knowledge and skills to create and re-mix digital media vs. those who don’t.

• Those that understand that learning is a continual process vs. those that view learning as achievement.

-Helen Blowers, Columbus Metropolitan Library

Guiding Thoughts• Search is the essential 21st century skill.

• The responsibility of teaching search to kids lies within the entire school community.

• How can educators help students to organize, access, and leverage their collection of information in useful ways?

Did You Know?

Parisian Love Story

What’s Your Search Story?

http://www.youtube.com/user/SearchStories

Inside Web Search8

A Google A Day9

Chrome App10

Search Stories11

Search Education Hub12

New!

Dan Russell

Control + F

Organizing a Search• What is it I’m looking for?

(think about common keywords)

• How would someone else talk about it? (what words would they use? how would THEY describe it?)

• Which of those terms would be most common?

• Which of those terms would be very specialized to this topic?

• What kind of thing would make me happy? (do I want a single web page, a definition, a collection, an image.... or … ?)

http://youtu.be/F9dBn3aK4rw

https://sites.google.com/site/gwebsearcheducation/

Web Search Lessons18

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/search/

Help & Resources

• Google Inside Search• Google Search Basics• Google Guide Quick Reference• Google in Education Diigo Group

Conclusion• Plan on learning new skills.

• Nothing stays constant on the web.

• Search engines are continually improving.

• New search tools are always being developed

• Make research to be a part of everything that you do in the classroom. Teach and model this attitude to your students.

• Help students and colleagues develop a research stance across content areas using News, Scholar, and Book Search.

• Encourage your school or district to adopt search tools and strategies globally.