In my new role as Middle School Tech Integration Specialist, I was looking for some ways that I could help the students and teachers. I found this article from last year about skills we should be teaching students in the first five days. This quote from Alan November stuck with me the most:
“It’s my observation that we are not instilling a discipline and rigor of the grammar and syntax of the tool they are going to use more than anything else for homework.”
I think he is correct in his observation that search engines are probably the most widely used tool for completing homework so I decided to make a lesson that can be used to teach Middle School students some good search engine habits. I found this site created by Kurt Wismer and adapted it to make my own lesson on improving Search techniques.
How to get more out of Google:
How to evaluate search results:
How to filter results using Search Tools:
This is the link to the Google Doc that is shared with the students. I am happy with how this went and look forward to expanding on this topic as the school year progresses.
The Physics Boss 