Educating for Search: Understanding the Past and Present Search Technology to Teach for Future Resilience
This essay explores search engines’ technological advancements to present recommendations for related instruction. It begins by introducing basic and advanced Boolean Logic concepts, and how Boolean logic is applied to search engines’ external and internal operation. It then presents the significant information challenges search engine providers face in delivering quality results to users, and explains related innovations. Based on these descriptions, the essay concludes by discussing educational and instructional implications for library educators who teach students how to perform online searches.
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Data, Exploration, and the ELA & History Standards
The inspiration begins with a secret only you and your students can unlock. The secret (there may be several) is within the content of the lesson plan you delivered yesterday, or will deliver tomorrow. These are treasures unearthed through basic web tools, although they may require a new approach to investigating familiar, time-worn content.
However far-fetched it may seem, much of our instructional content can be analyzed, explored and teased as data — all to learn something new and incredible.