Technology Integration

Two weeks ago, a 6th grade science teacher and I worked with his students as they learned about the solar system. On of our first tasks was learning how to modify a search. We googled the phrase “solar system.” On Tuesday noon, the Google search gave 40 million sites. The next day at 10 AM, we worked with a different group. Then, Google search gave 40,200,000 sites. Three hours later, the number was up to 41 million. This morning, two weeks later, I did another google search and found 43,100,000 sites. Makes me wonder about the incredibly increasing information stacks out there. (at the University of Maine, as I am sure at other universities and colleges, we called the library book shelves the “stacks.”)

Such expanding information is the reason why we need to teach our students about smart searching. Some of us digital immigrants are still wondering where the card files went to! -:)