For this week I have learn a lot. Our professor gives us options to do a search topic of your choice using variety websites. I feel it is very interesting utilizing other sites beside our favorite search engines for example like Google, Yahoo, and Bing. I feel after doing a search on our topic using different sites, I prefer to use Worldcat.org because it is fast and simple. You don’t have to go to different pages to look for anything. With Worldcat.org site , it takes you straight to the main page and you just typed in the keyword that you are searching for and it give you all this results and you can narrow it down from format to years. I usually go to Yahoo and Google to get a quick search for my answered. Most of us would just go straight to the computer and go to our favorite sites such as Bing, Yahoo, Wekepida, and Google for our results. We should not believe what the internet gives us because sometime the answered is not correct.
I feel that today society made it easy for us just to have access to the computer. Since we have access to the technology now and day. We don’t take our time to do our research; we just go straight to our favorite sites and start typing our finger away. That is our main problem today. Some of the information that we are getting from the internet is not fully accurate but we still using it any way. It is quick and easy. How can we break our habit? I don’t think we can ever break our habit using search engine. Teacher should recommend student to go to a workshop to get a better understanding about using different sources of search.
Hi Kim,
ReplyDeleteI feel exactly the same way! I found last week's assignment utilizing various search engines very interesting. I'm thankful it introduced me to Worldcat, which is now my preferred search engine too. I agree that with all the hi-tech in today's world, it would be very hard to break the habit of heading straight to the internet for research.
Hey Quan,
DeleteThank you for replying to the post. Yes last week assingments was interesting because it made me open my eyes and say wow. Especially to Worldcat.org. Younger generation now and day prefere to use laptop for researching instead going to the library.
Hi Kim,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about how you feel that our society influence on technology greatly affects how we so our research easily through the internet.
I agree with you the habit of using search engines is here to stay. There is no way around it. The difference will be in helping to teach and educate people that using search engines for certain reasons is perfectly fine, but not in the case of doing research for school.
ReplyDeleteYou're not the only one to recommend starting the resource education process in the classroom. Many of us seem to be on the same page. And from the many blog responses I've read, it appears that the k-12 educational system has been inconsistent in teaching and incorporating it into their curriculum. It leads me to believe that media studies and library resources need to become more integral to standard education. Considering that the Educational Institution is a victim of collateral damage to these flailing economic times, proposing a class dedicated to this supplementary study may be too unrealistic, but perhaps these subjects could be taught as part of the standard curriculum, by simply supplementing it.
ReplyDeleteI really agree with you. That our search engines are pretty much our main go tos nowadays. Its just if we could have that resource education you spoke of in the classroom then it would help a lot of college youth these days.
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