Dan Russell has actually supplied the motivation for a number of the web research lessons that I have actually conducted with students over the years. Every week he posts a fascinating search obstacle for readers then provides the responses a couple of days later. The challenges vary in problem, but I always learn something from them regardless of how hard they are. A couple of years ago he published a challenge called
Whats In Common? In the years given that, Ive used numerous modifications of that difficulty to assist students find and practice making use of a range of search tools and techniques.
The Whats In Common? obstacle asks you to identify the shared qualities of 2 or more pictures, occasions, and or scenarios. In Dans original post he asked readers to find the commonalities between three floods and he asked readers to find the commonalities between 3 plants.

What do these two share besides being pet dogs?

Applications for Education
What I like about the
Whats In Common? difficulty is that I can make it as simple or as tough as I need it to be based on my students present ability levels. For example, I may make one challenge based upon checking out the material of web pages that students find while searching and make another obstacle based on being able to find and use the meta data in images.

Every week he posts a fascinating search challenge for readers then offers the answers a few days later on. The challenges vary in problem, however I always find out something from them regardless of how challenging they are. A few years ago he posted an obstacle called
I may make one challenge based on checking out the content of web pages that students find while searching and make another obstacle based on being able to find and utilize the meta data in images.

In addition to his blog site, Dan Russell has a great book titled
The Joy of Search. That book is packed with ideas for ending up being a better users of online search engine..

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