How to search the Internet effectively
In education, the Internet is as important to our students as books are. But knowing how to travel throughout the Internet is just as important as learning how to comprehend words in the book.
Teachers need to prepare for their classes to be able to search on the Internet. To allow students who might have some technology ability to just go out in search will be a futile and frustrating experience not only for the students, but the teacher also. Most students will spend their time searching around websites that are not productive .
Before students are asked to go to a computer lab to search for information lesson that teachers should prepare as a lesson, how to search on the Internet. Use Boolean, keywords, and quotation marks are important for successful searches. A lesson to prepare the students in this manner will help the teacher throughout the year and the students to be successful in any type of research through the Internet that they might have.
1 comment:
Learning how to search is a VERY important skill. I used to wonder why everyone liked to do research on the internet so much when you have to search through 1000's of sights to find the one you want. Students should be given a class on how to search correctly on the internet. They might have been shown in grade school, but it should be part of the curriculum as freshman just to stregthen the knowledge.
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