Beyond Search - GAFE IL Summit

Beyond SearchLucy Gray • METC 2013http://www.lucygray.org

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Google’s Mission

Online contentBillions of web pages

Offline contentBillions of items becoming

indexed

To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible

and useful.

A New Digital Divide• Those who know how to “think” about search

vs. those don’t.

• Those who know how to validate soft information vs. those don’t.

• Those who know where to find information in new “hot” channels vs. those don’t.

• Those who understand the current culture of informal languages vs. those don’t

A New Digital Divide• Those who know how to get information to

travel to them vs. those who still chase it.

• Those who have the knowledge and skills to create and re-mix digital media vs. those who don’t.

• Those that understand that learning is a continual process vs. those that view learning as achievement.

-Helen Blowers, Columbus Metropolitan Library

Guiding Thoughts• Search is the essential 21st century skill.

• The responsibility of teaching search to kids lies within the entire school community.

• How can educators help students to organize, access, and leverage their collection of information in useful ways?

Inside Web Search9

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/howsearchworks/thestory/index.html

Tips & Tricks11

Features: Search App12

Features: Handwrite13

Features: Knowledge Graph

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Search Stories15

Did You Know?

Parisian Love Story

What’s Your Search Story?

http://www.youtube.com/user/SearchStories

Playground18

Playground: A Google A Day

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Blog

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Help

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Search Education Hub22

Lesson Plans & Activities

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Lesson Plans & Activities

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Lesson Plans & Activities

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Power Searching Classes

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Dan Russell

Control + F

Organizing a SearchWhat is it I’m looking for?

(think about common keywords)

How would someone else talk about it?

(what words would they use? how would THEY describe it?)

Which of those terms would be most common?

Which of those terms would be very specialized to this topic?

What kind of thing would make me happy?

(do I want a single web page, a definition, a collection, an image.... or … ?)

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Keyword Choice

Think about what you are trying to find

Choose words that you think will appear on the page

Put yourself in the mindset of the author of those words

Use synonyms

Start broad and use just a few words, then go deep

Use contextual terms

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Other Search TipsUse specifiers

Example: [Illinois population wikipedia]

Try an image search when normal means fail, you might find something that will be useful or spark your interest in a different way.

Word order matters—when it’s not working one way, try another.

When searching for common phrases, don’t leave out the “stop words.”

Use double quotes to find a particular sequence of words

Example: “Daniel M Russell” , “L Frank Baum”, “Chicago Bulls”

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Search Tools

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Search Options

News

Scholar

Books

Keep in Mind

Everything is searchable.

Control + F is incredibly useful.

Nothing stays constant on the web.

Advanced Search and Preferences are available with each product.

RSS feeds are usually also available.

Just about every product has a team blog.

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Search Optionsand

Search Tools

Web

Search Tools

Images

Maps

Shopping

Video

News

Places

Discussions

Flights

Recipes

Applications

Patents

Try Search Featureseducation resources k12

science fair volcanoes

Garageband tutorials

weather Northbrook IL

Chicago Cubs

DIS, KO or PEP

earthquake

sunrise Chicago IL

Studs Terkel was born in *

2000 dollars in pesos

Chicago IL

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News

Try Google News

Go to http://news.google.com

Type in a search term.

Click on Advanced Search.

Restrict your search to a particular news source.

Set up a Google News alert for your school. Do a search for your school’s name and look for the Google Alert link at the bottom of the page. (http://www.google.com/alerts)

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Scholar

Try Google ScholarGo to http://scholar.google.com

Enter a search term such as John Dewey, Brown vs. Board of Education, or NASA and see what you can find.

Customize your results. For instance, see if you can select Illinois courts and search for using a term of your choice.

Do another search using the keyword mobile.

Click on Advanced Scholar Search.

Narrow your results by entering “Learning and Leading with Technology” in the publication field.

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Book Search

Try Google Book Search

Do a search for the following authors, pick a title, and click on About This Book and explore:

Gwendolyn Brooks

Abraham Lincoln

Ernest Hemingway

Ray Bradbury

Scott Turow

Studs Terkel

Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Make sure you are logged into your Google account and search for your favorite books. Create shelves and add books to your shelves. You can link to your My Library to share your collections with others.

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Help & Resources

• Google Inside Search• Google Search Basics• Google Guide Quick Reference• Google in Education Diigo Group

Conclusion• Plan on learning new skills.

• Nothing stays constant on the web.

• Remember to check settings and advanced search functions within Google Products.

• Search engines are continually improving.

• New search tools are always being developed

• Make research to be a part of everything that you do in the classroom. Teach and model this attitude to your students.

• Help students and colleagues develop a research stance across content areas using News, Scholar, and Book Search.

• Encourage your school or district to adopt search tools and strategies globally.