18 11 / 2011
18 11 / 2011
Yay Ed Tech Tools!
Another awesome list of what’s cool and happening in the ed tech world.
09 11 / 2011
7 Good Screen Capture Tools for Teachers
Tried out jing, which was great! Looking forward to trying out the others listed here.
09 11 / 2011
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Clive Thompson on Why Kids Can’t Search - Wired.com
High school and college students may be “digital natives,” but they’re wretched at searching. In a recent experiment at Northwestern, when 102 undergraduates were asked to do some research online, none went to the trouble of checking the authors’ credentials. In 1955, we wondered why Johnny can’t read. Today the question is, why can’t Johnny search?
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Consider the efforts of Frances Harris, librarian at the magnet University Laboratory High School in Urbana, Illinois. (Librarians are our national leaders in this fight; they’re the main ones trying to teach search skills to kids today.) Harris educates eighth and ninth graders in how to format nuanced queries using Boolean logic and advanced settings. She steers them away from raw Google searches and has them use academic and news databases, too.
In my experience, there is a MAJOR problem with the assumption that teenagers are ‘digital natives.’ Hardly any of the youth I work with are competent with a keyboard. They are uncertain how to navigate to websites, they continually ask Google questions rather than searching by keyword, and they have no visual literacy skills in recognizing legitimate websites. We assume too much about kids’ experience with computers rather than creating information/tech literacy curricula that supports our students through primary and secondary school.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lud25uzgHy1r5wtflo1_400.jpg)
Clive Thompson on Why Kids Can’t Search - Wired.com
High school and college students may be “digital natives,” but they’re wretched at searching. In a recent experiment at Northwestern, when 102 undergraduates were asked to do some research online, none went to the trouble of checking the authors’ credentials. In 1955, we wondered why Johnny can’t read. Today the question is, why can’t Johnny search?
[…]
Consider the efforts of Frances Harris, librarian at the magnet University Laboratory High School in Urbana, Illinois. (Librarians are our national leaders in this fight; they’re the main ones trying to teach search skills to kids today.) Harris educates eighth and ninth graders in how to format nuanced queries using Boolean logic and advanced settings. She steers them away from raw Google searches and has them use academic and news databases, too.
In my experience, there is a MAJOR problem with the assumption that teenagers are ‘digital natives.’ Hardly any of the youth I work with are competent with a keyboard. They are uncertain how to navigate to websites, they continually ask Google questions rather than searching by keyword, and they have no visual literacy skills in recognizing legitimate websites. We assume too much about kids’ experience with computers rather than creating information/tech literacy curricula that supports our students through primary and secondary school.
(via libraryjournal)
09 11 / 2011
Storify.com: An Awesome New Journalism Tool
On Storify.com, you can create your own news story using social media. It’s the Web 2.0’s person-on-the-street story without the hassle of actually convincing people to share their opinions with you and your media outlet. A journalist can just mine the vast wealth of tweets, Facebook posts, Youtube videos, and Flickr photos to capture the everyman’s opinion on a story. Storify is also great for amalgamating what other news outlets have reported. So check out my post on the Penn State sex abuse scandal!
01 11 / 2011
Libraries and learning communities (video & slides) | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project
Via Scoop.it - Buffy Hamilton’s Unquiet Commonplace “Book”
Director Lee Rainie gave a keynote address at the Internet Librarian conference that examined the potential role librarians can play in “learning communities” – both physical and virtual. Includes video and slides.
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01 11 / 2011
