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Magazine article
Don’t ‘just Google it’: 3 ways students can get the most from searching online
The Conversation, Vol.12 February 2020
2020
Appears in The Conversation
Abstract
Searching online has many educational benefits. For instance, one study found students who used advanced online search strategies also had higher grades at university.
But spending more time online does not guarantee better online skills. Instead, a student’s ability to successfully search online increases with guidance and explicit instruction.
Young people tend to assume they are already competent searchers. Their teachers and parents often assume this too. This assumption, and the misguided belief that searching always results in learning, means much classroom practice focuses on searching to learn, rarely on learning to search.
Details
- Title
- Don’t ‘just Google it’: 3 ways students can get the most from searching online
- Authors
- Renee Morrison (Author) - University of Tasmania
- Publication details
- The Conversation, Vol.12 February 2020
- Publisher
- Conversation Media Group
- Date published
- 2020
- DOI
- 10.64628/AA.pxumkp9a3
- ISSN
- 2201-5639
- Copyright note
- The Conversation Media Group. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99706798602621
- Output Type
- Magazine article
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