Tech Talk Roundtable 07-04 | Why Google Can’t Save Us
Concordia Ed Tech Podcast
English - March 01, 2020 06:25 - 31.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsEducation Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Description
Can you imagine a world without Google? Our students just can’t even. For those of us who remember the days when you actually had to go to a library to do research, or remember how to use a card catalog or an ERIC search, we think kids these days have it so easy. But is it? Is Google the savior it is purported to be? Or has it just made us lazy?
Lessons Learned
Dennis - Google “Wizard of Oz” Click the shoes then click the tornado
Chris - Google “Thanos,” click on the cartoon glove, and watch what happens.
Daniel - ctrl+two finger scroll - (Mac) You can zoom closer on your screen wherever you put the mouse.
Fun Fact
(From our Corrections & Retractions department)
Our fun fact from last week was not accurate. The 7% we quoted from John Borg, is a misinterpretation of the “7-38-55 rule” postulated by Albert Mehrabian
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/misinterpretation-7-38-55-rule-pedja-jovanovic/
It is more accurate to say the 60-70% is body language, and that “What we say is less important than how we say it.”
Notes & Links
Digital natives are not better at sniffing out fake news!
The information for how to spot misleading websites is often from a document created in 1998
Adults (56% in a trial study) could not tell fake news from real news
Esteemed Historians failed to sniff out a highly biased site from a mainstream site.
Learn & Teach, do not filter
WHOIS IP Lookup (for free!)
https://www.ultratools.com/tools/ipWhoisLookup
Positive Learning in the Age of Information
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783658195663
Why Google Can’t Save Us
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-19567-0_13
Sam Wineburg
https://ed.stanford.edu/faculty/wineburg
Description
Can you imagine a world without Google? Our students just can’t even. For those of us who remember the days when you actually had to go to a library to do research, or remember how to use a card catalog or an ERIC search, we think kids these days have it so easy. But is it? Is Google the savior it is purported to be? Or has it just made us lazy?
Lessons Learned
Dennis - Google “Wizard of Oz” Click the shoes then click the tornado
Chris - Google “Thanos,” click on the cartoon glove, and watch what happens.
Daniel - ctrl+two finger scroll - (Mac) You can zoom closer on your screen wherever you put the mouse.
Fun Fact
(From our Corrections & Retractions department)
Our fun fact from last week was not accurate. The 7% we quoted from John Borg, is a misinterpretation of the “7-38-55 rule” postulated by Albert Mehrabian
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/misinterpretation-7-38-55-rule-pedja-jovanovic/
It is more accurate to say the 60-70% is body language, and that “What we say is less important than how we say it.”
Notes & Links
Digital natives are not better at sniffing out fake news!
The information for how to spot misleading websites is often from a document created in 1998
Adults (56% in a trial study) could not tell fake news from real news
Esteemed Historians failed to sniff out a highly biased site from a mainstream site.
Learn & Teach, do not filter
WHOIS IP Lookup (for free!)
https://www.ultratools.com/tools/ipWhoisLookup
Positive Learning in the Age of Information
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783658195663
Why Google Can’t Save Us
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-19567-0_13
Sam Wineburg