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Finding Knowledge - young people's use of search engines

Some thoughts on my practical experiences of field work (and preliminary outcomes!)

I’ve now done three runs of my field work and started analysing the data.  So today I thought I’d discuss some of the preliminary findings, and their implications.  The findings are interesting in themselves, but I also want to highlight some of the benefits of the methods I used – recording talk, and ‘on-screen’ behaviours of groups of children completing search engine tasks.

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Edu-browse – a browser for education?

This fortnight I want to talk about two things – firstly carrying on from my discussion of BETT and LWF; secondly I thought I’d share some of the education blogs which I find inspiration from, and often share great tools.

Edu-browse

One of the most depressing statistics from a couple of years ago indicated that a large number of schools had not updated from Internet Explorer 6.  This left their security vulnerable, but it also meant that many resources couldn’t be accessed and – an idea that fills my constant 100+ tab self with horror – they were bereft of many of the updates that modern browsers ushered in, tabbed browsing and in-browser search bars included. more >