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Inquiry Project 1

Frustrations of conducting asearch on the web

By: Michalle Meyers

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Inquiry Plan

Create a Focus: Internet SearchFrustrations

Engage students in a educationalrich assignment, searching theInternet for web based terms.

Form educated predictions andexplanations.

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Inquiry Plan Cont.

Observations - observe studentsinteraction with search

assignment, record findings Survey/collect more data - using a

free web base survey tool, supportor disprove predictions.

Disseminate data/review

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Inquiry Plan Cont.

Follow up inquiry - havemeaningful conversations with

students, focus on searching theweb, narrow down whats the mostimportant issue.

Create an educational experiencefor students - intertwine curriculumwith web searches/resources.

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Project Focus/Investigation

How do kids go about searching for

information on the Internet? What aretheir frustrations and how can we learn

from them and help eliminate them!

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The Issue: Kids inability tosearch the websuccessfully!

Responses from kids (Survey taken9/10/08 polldaddy.com):

Why do I have to look through somuch junk to find what I want!

What do I type in the search window?

How do I word things?

How do I verify my information?

How do I narrow down my search?

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My Ideas

Prediction - Mosthigh school

students onlysearch theInternet usingbasic techniques.

Explanation - As aresult of direct

observations ofstudentssearching foritems on the web,

most have noknowledge ofusing advancesearches.

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My Ideas

Prediction:Student

frustrations areheightened, thusgiving up, whenInternet searches

are repeated withlittle or nopositive results.

Explanation: As aresult of directobservations, moststudents get a lowlevel frustrationpoint when asearch result has

to be repeated forthe lack ofpertinentinformation. They

begin to ask for

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Observation 9/4/08

Observations made when watchingstudents conducting internet searchesfor web terminology.Typing of whole questions into search

windows

Inputting terms to search in the addresswindow instead of a search enginewindow.

Students getting frustrated siftingthrou h lots of search results.

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Observation 9/4/08

Many students taking 40-45minutes to search 10 web terms.

Many students using Wikipedia

3-5 students in each of the fourclasses did not finish assignment.

Some students ask for teacherapproval of search results beforewriting their answer.

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Observation 9/4/08

Some students choose the first or

second search result assuming itwas correct because it was at thetop.

Some students use more than onesearch engine as a result of notgetting desired answers.

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Inquiry

According to the METS (MichiganEducational Technology Standards)

at what age are students expectedto competently identify searchstrategies for locating needed

information on the internet?

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Click one to see if you canguess where the state

expectation is!s By the end of 3rd grade.

s By the end of 5th grade.

s By the end of 7th grade.

s By the end of 9th grade.

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Congratulation!

These are Technology Standards andExpectations for the State of Michigan bythe end of Grade 5!

Students identify search strategies forlocating needed information on theinternet.

Students discuss the accuracy,relevance, appropriateness, and bias ofelectronic information sources.

Continue

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Nice Try but go back

and try again!

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The Survey - 9/8/08(Created with: Polldaddy)

The purpose of this survey was toask basic questions about how

students perform their internetsearches.

What are their frustrations andneeds when it comes to searchingfor educational rich information onthe web.

8 multiple choice, 1 free response

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Question 1

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Question 2

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Question 3

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Question 4

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Question 5

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Question 6

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Question 7

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Question 8

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Question 9

How can I be more specific?

How to narrow down the search so I dont get somuch junk!

Finding the right answer, faster.

Where the information comes from.

How to complete a more advanced searchHow to verify the material I am finding.

How to get more relevant results.

Ability to clarify and narrow my search.

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The most interesting feed

back in my opinion was: Question #6 - 56% responded that they

think it is important to learn about web

searching in 4th or 5th grade. Does this say: our school district has

high expectations of students skills butare not effectively teaching those web

skills? Are teachers engaging their students

with web activities with assumptions

about their skills?

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Follow-up to the survey

9/12/08 Google assignment - completing an

informational worksheet/guide on

searching with Google. Accessingthe website resource pages,collecting information, applying toexamples.

Basic Search Informational Site Advance Search Informational Site

http://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=searchguides.html&ctx=basicshttp://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=searchguides.html&ctx=advancedhttp://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=searchguides.html&ctx=advancedhttp://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=searchguides.html&ctx=basics

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Meaningful Reflection(Jeff Wilhelm, University of Maine, Orono)

"Literacy has always been aboutusing the most powerful cultural

tools available to make andcommunicate meaning.

If we or our students don't know

how to critically use these tools totheir fullest meaning-constructivepotential, then we--and they--are

illiterate.

http://www.teachnet-lab.org/fklane/wilhelm.htmhttp://www.teachnet-lab.org/fklane/wilhelm.htmhttp://www.teachnet-lab.org/fklane/wilhelm.htm

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Resources used:

My four technology classes, (Icurrently am not teaching science)

Polldaddy survey instrument

Google Instruction

Article: Literacy by Design: Why Is

All This Technology So Important? METS

http://www.polldaddy.com/http://www.teachnet-lab.org/fklane/wilhelm.htmhttp://www.techplan.org/http://www.techplan.org/http://www.teachnet-lab.org/fklane/wilhelm.htmhttp://www.teachnet-lab.org/fklane/wilhelm.htmhttp://www.polldaddy.com/