The video highlighted the very real fact that our ability to provide children with the appropriate search skills, is lacking.
I had underestimated the significance of searching for information for students. Admittedly, as a teacher who uses technology frequently both in and outside of school, I am not as competent as I should be when searching. In fact, the students often understand more about how to search for information than I do!
It is therefore no wonder that we are doing our children a disservice by not teaching them how to effectively search! This will be my motivation to learn how to effectively search for everything online!
Mary does a really good lesson where she teaches search skills. And, more importantly perhaps, to validate the source. We were just talking about this today, actually. She was saying that it's not an exact science and can be difficult. But one thing she suggested to me was to check the facts in a document by trying to find the same facts cited in another article, for example. I thought this a pretty good idea.
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