Strategic Searching
Post date: Apr 27, 2015 5:17:15 PM
Students will be able to ...Understand the importance of using a variety of search strategies.
Master new strategies for effective and efficient online searches.
Learn to create and execute a five-step plan for conducting an online search.
Vocabulary
Effective: achieving the desired goal or result efficiently: doing something in a way that saves you time and energy
strategy: a course of action designed to help you reach a specific goal or result
How do you find something online? What kinds of things do you search for?
An effective online search is one that yields the precise results they are looking for. An efficient search does so without a lot of wasted time or energy – for example, having to scroll through a lot of search results that don’t relate to their desired topic. We need a strategy, search strategies can help you search effectively and efficiently. It all comes down to terminology and not "Questions" A search engine will pull up web pages that have your words listed on the web page. The more your word shows up on the page, the higher up on the list it goes. Internet Searching
Plan and Perform a Search
SELECT research questions and search tools. (Explain to students that they should have one or more questions that get to the core of what they want to find out in their search. They should also choose search engines and tools that are most relevant to what they are looking for.)
EXTRACT keywords and terms. (Students should understand that they can find effective keywords by highlighting the key terms of their research questions.)
APPLY search strategies. (Students should apply some of the search strategies they learned – for example, adding quotation marks or a minus sign, or specifying what type of information they need.) RUN your search. (Students should run a search on the terms they have chosen and review the results. Remind students that they should check out multiple sources.)
CHART your search. (Students can avoid repeating work they have already done by jotting down what they’ve searched for and where they’ve searched for it.)
Download the Make a Search Plan document to your DocHub.
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