Research life after google Matakana Workshop

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

Search Engines

http://www.sortfix.com/

http://www.refseek.com/

Bing http://www.bing.com

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.