school kids search too ......

School Kids Search Too ......

From an article (Contributed By: Jim Hedger) within ISEDB.com

http://www.isedb.com/news/article/1250

“First of all, though my brother does not keep a computer at home and the two boys attend different schools, both claim that Google is the only search engine worth using”

“According to my public-school aged nephews, Justin and Tyler, libraries are entirely organized alphabetically and the proper way to find information is to look it up on Google.”

< Mention of the wonders of the Dewey Decimal System brought blank stares until Tyler tried to brazen his way through… >

http://www.looksmartcollege.com/p/search?f...System+&tb=web& x=22&y=5

http://www.looksmartjrhigh.com/p/search?fr...ystem+&tb=web&x =15&y=5

“I noticed how he compensated for a lack of clarity by drilling down in search results until he found what he was looking for, sometimes on the third, fourth or even fifth pages of results. He didn't seem to mind”.

Tyler (age 8) even commented: "Yahoo doesn't give me much information but Google gives me pages and pages." – Does he need all that??

Looksmart’s David Hills explains LOOK’s Verticals best, as ……”Essential, not exhaustive” search.

< Forgetting they didn't have a computer at home, I asked why they just didn't bookmark the pages to reference later.

"There are a lot of other kids using the computers in the library", said Justin, "the bookmarks are too full to find anything." Tyler agreed, adding that most of the bookmarks on computers in his schools were for game sites. >

“ FIND IT – SAVE IT & SHARE IT” should you wish to do so, with Furl.Net

< In a few years, Justin will hopefully be entering college or university. Tyler is sure to follow. >

(I’m sure they will want to find it quicker, save it for future reference or, share it, should they please to.)

< That's about the time my cell phone rang. It was a local radio station from back home in Victoria BC wanting to do an interview with me. I stepped outside, leaving Justin in charge. The interview lasted about fifteen minutes and when I came back in, Justin (aged 14) was surfing a Marilyn Manson site that could have passed as a fan site from the movie A Clockwork Orange. Two feet to the left of him, Tyler (aged 8) had found a page full of dirty and/or corny jokes and was cracking up reading them out loud to the chagrin of some of the other patrons. It was obviously time to leave. >

MMmmm?? – Library’s & Schools. - I wonder if Uncle Jim has had a play with LOOK’s Study Verticals and Furl, as yet????

:)
LC