Reflection4

There was so much great material in this playlist, I would also like to mention the bubble reference, that I knew our searching was being “monitored” to some degree, but I never realized it had become so intrusive. This explains the completely different results I get from others even in my own family (we each have our own laptops) when we occasionally cyber race to get an answer to a question. Fascinating, but a little eerie. I have always tried to be cognizant of all perspectives when researching, especially politically sensitive issues, and now I am not sure I am getting totally unbiased results.

I also was happy to be exposed to Free Tech for Teachers (which I knew about, but happy to be reminded) the Google lesson plan helpers, and the Information Seeking Fluency, which I tweeted I like it so much! I was a great model for a lesson to give to my students to help them see the steps to identifying and gathering good research information, how to keep it organized, and how to plan to capture citation information in case you use a source later. I never realized about the Tagging feature he mentioned in Web 2.0 sites, I want to look into the various ways I can use this with the students. Another item of interest was Digital Citizenship, which I usually start my students early with Library Citizenship, but this concept is so important. Many students grew up not realizing it is illegal to download music and videos that are original content, and now that most information is available digitally, there are a host of new regulations to be aware of. Ethics must be visited over and over again in our new era.