Reflective Searching

Last full week of school! What a great year with some great kidos!! 

With so much information out there it really is getting harder to sift through creditable recourses and information. I see my students all the time trying to copy and past USATestPrep questions into google during study hall. I do feel that many of these habits have stemmed from the massive overload of online course assignments this year due to our restrictions from the pandemic. This is troubling because many times students wont even fact check the information but trust it is "good" information because it was the top search result. In the begging of the online learning days of this school year I had to re-teach search engine skills for projects in my class.  In the study, information behavior of the researcher of the future, I can relate to how the digital transition is affecting libraries. My school has a vast selection of books in its library, but after talking with my media specialist she says the number of physical book checkouts is on the decline while the number of digital resources being checked out is on the rise at a rapid pace.  

As for myself I have seen how much information has taken over our devices and lives. As an educator I pride myself on making sure I have and am able to provide creditable information and resources to my students. This made taking the Google Challenge much easier. I never knew Google offered this and it really does put your searching skills to the test! I also learned that, The Brick, was a furniture company owned by the family of the husband of the actress who played the role of Lizzie McGuire. The more you know, LOL!