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Using the Tools Gave Ya !

Using the Tools Gave Ya !. Carina Pierce, Teacher-Librarian Cougar Mt. Jr. High Bethel School District. “We are all Google generation now: the demographics of Internet and media consumption are rapidly eroding this presumed generational difference” (Rowlands, et al., 2008).

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Using the Tools Gave Ya !

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  1. Using the ToolsGave Ya! Carina Pierce, Teacher-Librarian Cougar Mt. Jr. High Bethel School District

  2. “We are all Google generation now: the demographics of Internet and media consumption are rapidly eroding this presumed generational difference” (Rowlands, et al., 2008)

  3. Head & Eisenberg, University of Washington, 2009~students, and not only young ones, see the “Internet as an all-inclusive information resource” ~students most often used the Internet (Google and Wikipedia) for pre-search, a means to determine a big picture context of an issue, a summary, or background on a topic. In fact, almost all students surveyed relied on the same few resources (99% reported always using Google)

  4. Head & Eisenberg, cont’d • Interestingly, they (the students) also noted the drawbacks to using the Internet: • not helpful for narrowing topics, • difficult to determine relevant resources, • too many results, and • credibility is always a concern. • All of these concerns did not, however, keep 99% of those surveyed from using the Internet as a scholarly resource.

  5. * 55 WLMA Members identified as Secondary TL’s, 54 responses

  6. Google Tools Surveyed • Google Basic Search • Google Advanced Search • Google Custom Search • Google News • Google Maps • Google Earth • Google Wonder Wheel • Google Timeline • Google Books • Google Scholar

  7. * 51 high school classroom teachers, 50 responses

  8. This generation [the Net Generation] is all about saving time: “they are open to instruction only if it saves them time.” ~Joyce Valenza, “They Might be Gurus” (2006)

  9. Do Now: Choose a broad research topic Ideas:MLB World SeriesBP Oil Spill/Gulf of Mexico Oil SpillMid-term ElectionsChilean MinersCBA’sSeptember 11th, 9/11Patriot ActYour own idea?

  10. Google Wonder Wheel Educational Application: Keywords, focus, visual learners

  11. Google Timeline Educational Applications: History, Biographies, Context (literary, historical), Current Events, Decades/Eras • Chronological articles • Focus deeper and deeper on dates

  12. Google Blogs In the year 2000, there were 12,000 active blogs. In 2010, there are 141 million (Steven St. James, The Jammer with the Hammer blog). Educational Applications: current events, point of view, persuasion, credibility, purpose, writing, publishing.

  13. GoogleNews “Add a section” to personalize your news!

  14. Google Books • How can they publish entire books? • Public Domain • Why would we need partial books? -- quotes, summary of book, can hear/experience voice, tone, syntax of author

  15. Google Scholar “a simple way to search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites” -from “About Google Scholar”, 2010 • Why would we NOT use a tool that has all of this in one place? • Not discipline-specific • Sorting results limited • Many results are abstracts only • Still need access to paid database for number of results, BUT…

  16. Google Videoshttp://video.google.com/ • For Teachers and You! • Free, downloadable videos…your library does not need to have everything there is about the human cell (or Hiroshima, or the Harlem Renaissance, or…)! • Use Advanced Search to limit domain (NOT youtube.com, etc.) if you can’t run it (Youtube is blocked) • Choose duration, date uploaded, quality, source

  17. Resources:Google for EducatorsFree Technology for TeachersPostersGoogle Search Cheat SheetTip Sheetlesson plans

  18. Over-the-shoulder Tips • “Go to Advanced Search and use the boxes to limit your search” • “Now that you have those results to start with, try going to “More Options” then click on “Wonder Wheel”. Does that help you focus? • “You are working on something that is sensitive to the time period it occurred. Have you tried Google’s Timeline?” • “If you need a current event, one of the best places to start would be Google News or Blogs. Do you need an opinion on something, or just the facts?”

  19. References • About Google Scholar. (2010). Retrieved February 14, 2010, from http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/about.html. • Head, A. J., Ph.D, & Eisenberg, M. B., PH.D. (2009). Lessons learned: How college students seek information in the digital age (Project Information Literacy Progress Report. Seattle: The Information School, University of Washington. • Rowlands, I., Nicholas, D., Williams, P., Huntington, P., Fieldhouse, M., Gunter, B., et al. (2008). The Google generation: The information behavior of the researcher of the future. London: CIBER, School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, University College London. • Valenza, J. K. (2006). They might be gurus. Teacher Librarian, 34(1), 18-27.

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