In this Digital Citizenship video, a middle school class is showcased who are learning about being more precise with their online searches. The video shows the teacher engage the students in three learning activities to help them achieve this goal. First, they play a game similar to Taboo where the students must precisely describe a word without saying the word itself. Next, they must research a topic beginning with only one key word and then adding more adjectives and nouns to make the search more precise. Finally, they partner up to research a different topic.
I believe this is a great strategy in teaching students the importance of precision in making searches. The sciences are a very research heavy field. Thus, it is imperative that students learn early on how crucial it is for them to be as precise as possible with their research. This will ensure that they spend less time finding the right information and more time extracting the information and using it to achieve their goal. Often times, students will also give up on doing research because they cannot find the information that they seek. This is usually due to their search not being precise enough. However, sometimes it is also the database that they are using that may be inappropriate for the type of research the students are doing. Thus, it is important to teach students about appropriate database use in conjunction with this lesson on precision.
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