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Meaning Making Connections

Effective search strategies in classroom project-based learning involve multiple steps and considerations. Firstly, teachers should instruct students to be specific when using search engines and to decide whether a search engine or subject directory suits their needs better.

Meaning Making Connections

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How do (J/I) teachers use effective search strategies in classroom project based learning?

Strategies

Try different search engines
Read the help and tips files for each search engine
Be as specific as possible when using a search engine
Decide whether you need a subject directory or search engine

Critical Digital Literacies

Decoding
Modalities
Stylistics
Operations

Check your spelling

Conventions
Navigation

Know how to use your browser

Analysing
Interrogating
Selecting
Deconstructing
Persona
Participating
Managing reputation
Identity building
21st century skills
Leadership
Collaboration and teamwork
Creativity and imagination
Critical Thinking

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Education

Ontario curriculum

Learning skills

Modern learning

Integration of technology

Digital media liteacy

Media literacy

Project-based learning with real-life examples

Teacher

Professionalism

Role

Prepare students for world

Lifelong learner

Beliefs

Integrity

Inclusion

Best practices

Global citizenship education

OCT code of conduct

Meaning Making
Reading

Create blog with suggested resource hyperlinks

Relating
Expressing

Formulate search question carefully

Identify key words

Start with a title search

Make it a multi-step process

Search only your results

Select synonyms and other word forms

Using
Problem solving
Applying

Try Boolean searching

Use wildcards to combine variant word forms

Learn about wildcard searches

Dieting method search string

Improve search engine use by: read the help files

Creating
Finding

Unified search interface: Users enter search queries to several search engines/directories within the same interface

Ask.com

Search engines differ: detail, relevancy and sophistication

Student search patterns can change according to types of tasks

Study findings show time spent, scan type, number of keywords, and reading styles differred in all tasks

Sources for further learning

Search Engine Watch

Search Engine Showdown

Tips on effective usage: no search engine covers more than approximately 20% of the Web

Make use of the “Advanced Search” page

Use multiple search engines if you wish to approach a thorough or comprehensive search

Meta search engine: searches the databases of other engines, allows you to sift and see what is out there.

Con: most retrieve only the top 10-50 matches from each search engine, the total number of sites retrieved may be considerably less than found by doing a direct search on one of the search engines.

MIxquick, DogPile, MetaCrawler, Mamma: The Mother of all Search Engines

Considerations: time of day, search engines are in competition

Broaden or narrow a search using "and", "not", "or", "near"

Use "and" twice to narrow search even more

Google, HotBot, Clusty

Google advanced search

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