I found the website, Teaching Students to Use the Internet as a Research Tool, to be a valuable resource for students who want to learn how to conduct proper research from the internet. There are so many sources on the internet that are not credible. It is important for teachers and students alike to know what sources are considered credible and what sources we should stay away from. One way to search a topic, we actually learned to do from this class and that is the advanced search option from google. I have found that the area that asks for domain is a good place to specify what type of website the student is looking for, such as, .edu or .gov. By typing in these keywords the search engine will only take you to these sights. Also, I recently visited the Kellogg library with one of my classes and the librarian taught us how to conduct research from the internet. Basically, if you go to the library link from our CSUSM website it has many links to good resources and you can even email the librarians to ask them for help. Once again, I thought this website gave good information on how to locate and evaluate resources from the internet.
Now, about that excel quiz… I will admit that I had to take it several times in order to get a somewhat passing grade. As you can see, I have had no experience using excel other than studying it to pass the CCR test. I found the tutorial to be a little confusing in the section about the formulas. I thought it was easier when we were hands-on and did the spreadsheet in class. However, after completing the Excel assignment we had to do for this class, I definitely plan on using Excel in the future. I thought it was so convenient and easy to be able to figure out student grades.
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I agree that the internet is full of information that is not credible, and if you are not wise about that you may very well believe anything you read! I also am happy that I learned about the advanced search on google! I always knew it was there but I never used it, and I guess I didn't really know how before our assignment.
As a students and future educator, one of the things that plagues me the most is how to separate fact from fiction. I want to teach my students how to find the hard facts on the internet. There are some really amazing resources on the internet, we just have to teacher out children where to find them and how to use them. I think the advanced search on google is an amazing new tool! I knew about it, but never knew how to use it!
I found excel very confusing at first but it's like everything else the more that you practice the better it gets. I still do not know everything and that was the one part on the CCR that took me like 3 times to pass. I finally watched a tutorial cd on it and then was able to pass it. Oh well though, everything is a learning process.
Hi Tiffany, well this article will be of great help for us entering into the field of education. As you mentioned, the Internet offers us a great deal of information. In there we can find articles, magazines, newspapers, however, one must be able to recognize which material has the highest credebility in terms of its usage for a research paper. Therefore, the reading did a tremendous job in aiding students and educators into acquiring the most valuble information in the Internet. I really enjoyed the reading.
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