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How College Students Seek Information in the Digital Age
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PDF research paper: Using the technology of cognitive learning to model online searching
Research paper behind news stories about search helping learning
Networked Learners | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project
"In the opening keynote, “Networked Learners,” Lee Rainie discusses the latest findings of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project about how teenagers and young adults have embraced technology of all kinds — including broadband, cell phones, gaming devices and MP3 players. He describes how technology has affected the way “digital natives” search for, gather and act on information."
Search engines are source of learning
"Search engine use is not just part of our daily routines; it is also becoming part of our learning process, according to Penn State researchers.
The researchers sought to discover the cognitive processes underlying searching. They examined the search habits of 72 participants while conducting a total of 426 searching tasks. They found that search engines are primarily used for fact checking users' own internal knowledge, meaning that they are part of the learning process rather than simply a source for information. They also found that people's learning styles can affect how they use search engines."
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Search engine use is not just part of our daily routines; it is also becoming part of our learning process, according to Penn State researchers.
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The researchers sought to discover the cognitive processes underlying searching. They examined the search habits of 72 participants while conducting a total of 426 searching tasks. They found that search engines are primarily used for fact checking users' own internal knowledge, meaning that they are part of the learning process rather than simply a source for information. They also found that people's learning styles can affect how they use search engines.
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Most Searchers Use Three or More Keywords - The Steve Rubel Lifestream
"According to Experian, the majority of US searches (at least those that generate clicks) incorporate more three or more keywords. This is likely being driven keyword suggestions, a feature that's now the default for virtually every search engine and every browser. "
Charlie Beckett, POLIS Director » Blog Archive » Cyburbia: How search engines are changing us
"Is it possible that this rapid information loop between sending out messages into Google and the responding feedback, is changing the way that we want to process and respond to information?"
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Is it possible that this rapid information loop between sending out messages into Google and the responding feedback, is changing the way that we want to process and respond to information?
Bing - Link building for smart webmasters (no dummies here) (SEM 101) - Webmaster Center Blog - Bing Community
"described link building earlier as hard work. But perhaps smart work is a better description. Check out a few of these smart ideas and determine how they apply to your site, your customers, and your industry's niche. Note that all of these ideas are predicated on the assumption that you've already created useful, original, expert content that users will want to read and webmasters of relevant sites will want to link to. That done, let's spread the news! Here's how:
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3 Flavors of Social Search: What to Expect
"With Google's Social Search experiment, Bing's integration with Twitter and Yahoo!'s partnership with One Riot, social search clearly has both potential and momentum. But what will social search look like, and will it help us search better? And if it will, how?
I've written previously about how social search won't replace traditional search, how social relevancy rank can be used to deliver good results, and why the concept of social search is a return to a familiar state rather than something to fear. Today, I'll get more specific about the three flavors of social search that will improve user search experiences."
GNIC.org
"The Digital Literacy Contest
...a competition of database and Internet research skill.
We created the DLC as a summer project in 2007. We were undergraduates at Purdue University. Since then, we've helped major universities across the country host the contest. We've tripled in size each semester because students and libraries love the DLC.
University libraries host the DLC in university computer labs. Students logon to our web-based contest and compete to find information online using the internet and library databases. They must provide sources and the highest total score wins.
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Short film 'Googled' by They're Using Tools! ©2009. Story written by Dave Chalker and B. Adam Russell. Narration by B. Adam Russell. Animation by Melinda Rainsberger. http://www.theyreusingtools.....
Short film 'Googled' by They're Using Tools! ©2009. Story written by Dave Chalker and B. Adam Russell. Narration by B. Adam Russell. Animation by Melinda Rainsberger."
Google Tutor’s Google Search Manual
"Note: to link to this page, use “http://www.googletutor/google-manual”. It’s important to understand that links to individual pages within the manual could possibly change in future."
Guerilla Search Contest | Carlos Seligo
"Answer the following 10 questions. The first player to stop the clock must have the answer to all parts of the question. S/he collects the points (in parentheses) for the correct answer to each part and loses the same number of points for each incorrect answer. If all parts are answered correctly s/he receives an additional bonus point for each part of the question. In addition, at this time anyone else who can offer an answer to a part of the question will win/lose the points if correct/incorrect. If no player stops the clock within 10 minutes, the clock stops automatically and the same rules apply, except that no one is elgible for the bonus points even if they have the correct answers to all parts of the question. "
List of Great Firefox Plugins for SEO | SEO.com
"Below is a list of some of my favorite SEO plugins"
Coming to Google Labs: Social search results | The Social - CNET News
"SAN FRANCISCO--Google Vice President Marissa Mayer made a surprise announcement at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday: "Social Search," a new Google Labs experiment that will bring in search results from a member's social-network contact circle.
It'll be launching as an opt-in project in the next few weeks. Then, you'll need to have a Google account and set up a Google Profile to fill in information about the social networks that you use. Google first launched Profiles about a year ago.
"What we've done here is inserted, on the bottom of the page, content written by people in your social network," Mayer said, adding that Google hopes this will "really improve the overall relevance, comprehensiveness, and quality" of search results. A search for a local restaurant, for example, could bring up your friends' Yelp reviews for the same establishment. A search for travel destinations could bring up a post from a friend's blog."
The Keyword Blog: Kermit the Frog Search Challenge (Information Literacy Games)
"Finding Kermit was the inspiration for one of the first Internet Search Challenges created by Dr. Carl Heine. The task is to track down a picture of Kermit ready for graduation in the least amount of time.
Many teachers use this as a whole class lab activity. Put up a search challenge and then it's off the races! This game is live, just click Google to start the timer.
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Filter Geeks Try to Solve Info Overload at the Real-Time Web Summit
"How do you create filters for the real-time web? From spam filtration to relevant discovery, the "filter geeks" at the Real-Time Web Summit today are all about creating simple, rich user experiences.
Hashtags for Twitter are a great start, but how are the startups moving and shaking the real-time web planning on giving users filters to control their streams in ways that make the ever-increasing volumes of information more usable? From Thing Labs and Twingly to PostRank and SocialText, read on for the problems these companies and their users have encountered and how they plan to solve information overload through clever curation and cooperation."
The powerful and mysterious brain circuitry that makes us love Google, Twitter, and texting. - By Emily Yoffe - Slate Magazine
It is an emotional state Panksepp tried many names for: curiosity, interest, foraging, anticipation, craving, expectancy. He finally settled on seeking. Panksepp has spent decades mapping the emotional systems of the brain he believes are shared by all mammals, and he says, "Seeking is the granddaddy of the systems." It is the mammalian motivational engine that each day gets us out of the bed, or den, or hole to venture forth into the world. It's why, as animal scientist Temple Grandin writes in Animals Make Us Human, experiments show that animals in captivity would prefer to have to search for their food than to have it delivered to them.
For humans, this desire to search is not just about fulfilling our physical needs. Panksepp says that humans can get just as excited about abstract rewards as tangible ones. He says that when we get thrilled about the world of ideas, about making intellectual connections, about divining meaning, it is the seeking circuits that are firing.
The juice that fuels the seeking system is the neurotransmitter dopamine. The dopamine circuits "promote states of eagerness and directed purpose," Panksepp writes. It's a state humans love to be in. So good does it feel that we seek out activities, or substances, that keep this system aroused—cocaine and amphetamines, drugs of stimulation, are particularly effective at stirring it.
Classroom 2.0 LIVE Resources-9-26-09 on gl·am - Link Group Service
Links to twelve separate pages on google search curriculum and study tips, resources, activities, lessons
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