Smart+Searching

Smart Searching


 * Smart Searching Page** **(add the information below)**
 * 1) Link to Google: @http://www.google.com/
 * 2) **Description of why students need to learn "smart searching skills"** It will be great to give students the strategies to "smart search" because it can help narrow their search so that they get more relevant information. Rather than finding a needle in 100 haystacks, they can find a needle in one haystack. Finding research on the internet can be very daunting because there is so much out there, but smart searching can help pinpoint the type of information that you are looking for. I especially like searching within one specific domain to get the perspective of a different country.
 * 3) **Application: How are you going to use this with students/lesson idea**? I do a "Musical" project with my students in which they choose and research a musical, find some video clips of live performances, and create a presentation on that musical that they will present to the rest of the class. It seems in the past, the only research web sight that some feel comfortable with is Wikipedea. These strategies will help them find many credible sources for their research project. I believe that their projects will continue to involve more technology as I show them new 21st Century tools.
 * 4) There are many 21st Century Skill addressed in this project such as, planning, thinking creatively, reflecting, and communicating with machines and others.