Class discussion
I have little doubt that you frequently hear about problems, such as the poor quality and accuracy of information, and the information overload on the Web. About the information overload, sources below (#1 and #2) will give balanced perspectives (they say overload is a 'wrong' perspective. #3 and #4 clarify that the major innovations for the next generation of the Web are driven by 'post-filtering' and search algorithms (to improve search effectiveness and efficiency). On Monday, everyone will compare two different search procedures for his/her own topic of interests - online library database search (if you are not a student in IDT 351, try finding a journal article or magazine using an online library service (e.g., local university or city library, get help if necessary) vs. Web search (e.g., using Google search, Google scholar, YouTube, Slideshare.net, or professional association web site). Then on W, you will do a scavenger hunt to find and improve a rubric to evaluate the quality of retrieved search results using Rubistar (last resource on the list below). The goal is to learn how to find quality information when you have a topic that you don't know much, and how to evaluate the quality of such sources retrieved.
As a class, it will be also very useful to brainstorm which filtering (e.g., like, # of views, tags, rating, indices, impact factor, selection of reactions on Slashdot.org, etc.) exist and how it has evolved to deal with information quality/overload, and how they shape/influence/affect "authority" or "expertise". If you like challenges, I like to state that some sees the next generation Web will focus more on managing exploding information and do quality control (Artificial Intelligence and algorithms are major drivers). If you think about location-based searches/services or community/group based organization (e.g., on facebook), these are all to make information management and learning more effective.
Your comment by Su midnight should answer how Web search vs. traditional (online or on-campus) library search compare in terms of quality, effectiveness, and convenience, and how the quality/accuracy should be evaluated.
I have little doubt that you frequently hear about problems, such as the poor quality and accuracy of information, and the information overload on the Web. About the information overload, sources below (#1 and #2) will give balanced perspectives (they say overload is a 'wrong' perspective. #3 and #4 clarify that the major innovations for the next generation of the Web are driven by 'post-filtering' and search algorithms (to improve search effectiveness and efficiency). On Monday, everyone will compare two different search procedures for his/her own topic of interests - online library database search (if you are not a student in IDT 351, try finding a journal article or magazine using an online library service (e.g., local university or city library, get help if necessary) vs. Web search (e.g., using Google search, Google scholar, YouTube, Slideshare.net, or professional association web site). Then on W, you will do a scavenger hunt to find and improve a rubric to evaluate the quality of retrieved search results using Rubistar (last resource on the list below). The goal is to learn how to find quality information when you have a topic that you don't know much, and how to evaluate the quality of such sources retrieved.
As a class, it will be also very useful to brainstorm which filtering (e.g., like, # of views, tags, rating, indices, impact factor, selection of reactions on Slashdot.org, etc.) exist and how it has evolved to deal with information quality/overload, and how they shape/influence/affect "authority" or "expertise". If you like challenges, I like to state that some sees the next generation Web will focus more on managing exploding information and do quality control (Artificial Intelligence and algorithms are major drivers). If you think about location-based searches/services or community/group based organization (e.g., on facebook), these are all to make information management and learning more effective.
Your comment by Su midnight should answer how Web search vs. traditional (online or on-campus) library search compare in terms of quality, effectiveness, and convenience, and how the quality/accuracy should be evaluated.
- We’re on information overload by Thomas Washington.
- “It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure” by Clay Shirky. A little under 24 minutes. The problem of information overload, different perspectives can reveal positive aspects of abundant participants: Cognitive Surplus (by Clay Shirky, 13 min, and Captcha project: Massive-scale Online Collaboration by Luis von Ahn, 16 min)
- Tips for Handling Information Overload: Too Much Content by Dawn Foster (with Google Reader is gone as the most popular RSS tool, alternatives can be found here).
- The Chronicle of Higher Ed: The New Metrics of Scholarly Authority by Michael Jensen for subscribers only. For an earlier and freely available version, see Authority 2.0 and 3.0: The Collision of Authority and Participation in Scholarly Communications by Michael Jensen.
- The iPad and Information’s Third Age by William Rankin
Web tools/services:
Items 1~3 are information organization tools that allow browser customization. Zotero compares to a 3rd party citation tool called Endnote. Anytime you do online search, you can create a summary note. Rubistar is a great tool to create an evaluation/grading rubric. If you ever need to create a rubric to evaluate products or processes, it is a great, free, and easy to use tool. You will see one of the course project IDT 285: Technology integration for Preservice teachers is using it anytime software or web search is evaluated.
Items 1~3 are information organization tools that allow browser customization. Zotero compares to a 3rd party citation tool called Endnote. Anytime you do online search, you can create a summary note. Rubistar is a great tool to create an evaluation/grading rubric. If you ever need to create a rubric to evaluate products or processes, it is a great, free, and easy to use tool. You will see one of the course project IDT 285: Technology integration for Preservice teachers is using it anytime software or web search is evaluated.
- Netvibes - personalized dashboard publishing platform for the Web
- Page Flakes - social personalized homepage (as of 2/02/2014, service is down due to DNS expiration)
- Protopage also allows to create a personalized homepage
- Zotero - A tool that helps gather, organize, and analyze sources and then share the results of your research
- Rubistar - A free evaluation rubric builder with a search feature (if you create a web or information search task, and trainees or students create artifacts (list of useful sources, summary of sources, etc., you would want to evaluate their work. Don't reinvent the same wheel, chance is, if your topic is popular, Rubistar might have something you can adopt and even contribute. WebQuest is the most popular activity in K12 (sort of scavenger hunt and evaluation of the source).
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The above web is the web source i used. I have been using this source for quite a while and it is very effective in terms of bringing articles and everything together to provide a great deal of information. When compared to just regular web search, one can see big differences, not only in the way search result are presented but in the context information presented. I personally only use the regular web search whenever i search for information that is not important or relevant to anything. In terms of effectiveness, I don't think one can compare those two together whatsoever because EBSCO host is far better than just regular search engine and the quality is good too when compared to search engines. When it comes to convenience, the basic search engine is only utilized when i only want to make a quick search but if i want to make a search on articles important, like i said earlier i always use EBSCO host when i want to make a useful search. All in All i think these two search engines compare very well to each other but they are both used for different things when it comes down to effectiveness and convenience.
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I selected this source among the best I found. ASTD failed to provide any specific articles related to digital or media literacy, which I found surprising. EBSCO, AECT, and Infoplease also offered excellent articles and were easy to search. Search engines such as Google, dogpile, Ask Jeeves, IMDb, Technorati, and delicious offered good information, but the process to find verifiable, quality information is long. Using database searches allow the user to narrow down their search even more than a general search engine can. Databases allow users to search for not only quality information, but recent and relevant information as well which is important in this fast-paced informational age.
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I chose this web source to find better quality information, for the most important papers. This site is useful because it gives you better articles and much more information that a regular web search engine would. Web search engine is really used for searching a summary of any information, that you would be able to use, but if you wanted to stretch your paper and have better quality information and resources, the web search engine fells you on that. Both sources are good to use, but the difference between them is that on-campus database brings better quality information and narrows your search down. While the web search engine, like Google, Wikipedia, Ask, Yahoo, and other search engine, brings you the most links to your search. By doing this, it bores the users and makes them quit searching before it even begun.
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I decided to use EBSCO primarily because it was the search engine that I have used more than once before. All throughout my high school experience, we were required to use this search engine for papers and other projects. I eventually became familiar with it, and realized how much more efficient it was compared to Google or an alternative search engine. EBSCO made it easier to narrow down searches by category or by words and phrases. I searched digital literacy and although I had a lot of sources show up I feel like I found a source that met the requirements of the search. If I had wanted to use Google instead I would have had to go to advanced search options to narrow down the search or use Google Scholar, in order to effectively eliminate the unreliable websites out. I could have searched by .org or .edu in order to make sure the sources were professionally published. EBSCO eliminates all the hassle of having to go through all these steps. That is why I feel that this particular search engine is a good resource.
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I choose the EBSCO source above. I do not use EBSCO to often but for finding reliable sources for papers I find it great. EBSCO provides journals and articles that you can download and read through. The usual web searches such as google find a lot of information but the sources are not to reliable and you have to sift through a lot of garbage to find what you are looking for. This is not always the best choice when you are writing a paper or something of the sort. I do find searching for general things better on normal search engines such as google. I believe both of these search engines are for two different things and in all reality should not be compared.
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EBSCO is my primary search for any academic reports. I have used EBSCO host since 2002 when I started attending college for various reports. I like the variety of search options, which can be useful, which can be useful when searching a topic as wide as “digital literacy”. There are ways to narrow down the search options if you get to many entries. EBSCO has the option of including or excluding “and”, “or”, and “not”, which are extremely useful for other topics. Filtering information is easier than using the internet as of now. For me, it seems that the internet has a lot more information, however it does not filter information as effectively as a database search since the net searches by keywords, which it can be used to show any words in the keywords “digital literacy”. The only difference would be that the internet will search each instance the word shows up on a site. However, at least it will start label instance by importance, however if you get over 9,000 searches, you may have to search each page you come crossed to get what you are looking for. With a database, it can give you scholarly journals.
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EBSCO was a really reliable source to when it came to sourcing for information. The search engine was fast and easy to use and presented me with intuitive details on the information I wanted to look for. This was my first time ever using this search engine and it was not bad. It showed a lot of details on the Journal entry that will result in some very sufficient details as citing a source. This engine is better than most search engines because it narrow down the information better than other sites because it doesn't show 1000 websites.
Great comments. For some to revisit...
Chris G said those two won't compare - in real, those two are competing and converging. Related, Nicole J said, web search is only based on keywords - used to be, but has evolved and will do so more by analyzing contexts more. Another, search engines also work based on keyword search. The biggest difference between them is, results from database search, they are, already reviewed and filtered by reviewers behind the scene. For all, the task asked to pick the best single source, not the URL of the search, but for the overall goal of this assignment, they are good. For Chanse, depending on terms used, of course results can be more than hundred thousands.
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I use EBSCO because form my history in English class. Whenever we were required to do a research paper for our articles we had to use credible sources. While I do trust Wikipedia, the English department does not. Also Google Scholar was another credible site to get articles for research papers. I like EBSCO because the articles they have may be short but they are straight to point and they usually have the topic you want and they also have all the information such as the name of the source, the author, when it was published, things like that. Google Scholar maybe be better though because it is basically like using Google but for specific articles. Web searches maybe be better than Library search because it gives the user a wider wheelhouse to find the articles they are searching for, the only con I could really think of is that Web Searches also has a lot of junk so it is up to the user to make sure the sources they are using is credible.
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I chose EBSCO because I have used it numerous times for research in some of my English classes. While traditional Web searches are definitely easier to find what you're looking for, the credibility is not always valid. Most English teachers force you to use something other than just websites. One example is EBSCO. This is because it's credible. There are actual published works on this site. For the researcher, however, it's more time consuming and frustrating. Some teachers allow you to "triangulate" your sources. This means find at least three sources that have the same information, making it more credible. This is much more convenient.
When it comes to library databases, I have always had a tendency to use EBSCO. It is very easy to use, and it gets good results. This kind of search allows you to choose to find only scholarly, or peer-reviewed, sources, which is simply amazing in a scholarly setting or if you are just trying to find something new. It allows you to narrow down your search to only the peer-reviewed articles you might be looking for, and it is easier to understand and follow than Google Scholar. You can theoretically do this at a library, but it is much less convenient.
This means that search engines like EBSCO have amazing quality and convenience. They may not get you quite as many results, but the results provided are good, and it is worth having fewer in order to not have to dig through all the extra stuff you need to look through when you use other means of searches.
Due to the fact that the quality is good, there is a very good chance the search will be more effective; you have fewer results, but they are more likely to be relevant. There are cases where other kinds of searches may be more effective, or they may be more convenient, but, for a college setting, search engines like EBSCO work wonders.
Mostly, I use Google Search engine in my general information that I want to look at. It provides nomourous of information that I am looking at from the first time. It is very easy to use any where and any time.
Google Search is the dominant search engine in the Worldwide market. The users can search for the information they desire through the use of keywords and operators.
Google also hosts Google Books. The company began scanning books and uploading limited previews, and full books where allowed, into its new book search. Google updated its image search to display a streaming sequence of thumbnails that enlarge when pointed at.
Google has a very useful tool that I use everyday in my life, which is Google Translate product, which can translate between 35 different languages.
I use it to translate some word in English to my mother language ( Arabic ), that helped me a lot to learn much more about English when I came to U.S.A 2010.
For me, Google is my friend in school, especially in translation.
For my experience in EBSCO, I usually use it for my
search or academic writing that are required for some of my classes such as Eng180 and Eng 280. It is very easy to use and has a good quality in the sources.
Searches on the web can be we hit or miss. Usually the first couple of sites have good information but then I feel it starts to slide off. When writing papers or doing research I would almost always use the university library database. The chance that the information is good and accurate is usually pretty high. I feel like a draw back to the library database is that the information might now always be up to date. I takes a while for new information to get put into the database. So sometimes that's a risk.
Class, Jonathan's comment is most close to this week's prompt. In comparing quality, accuracy, etc., many could use what you have learned through in-class activities. We worked with the topic of "digital literacy" and I asked to find one article from database search, and asked folks to read results from the same keywords by web search. If you look closely for comments posted, most answers read like explanation of procedures or personal use. With this said, good ideas about requiring comparison of multiple results (Haley), extensive use of Google services (Hasinah), and quality control and logistical issues (Jake and Jonathan).
Though I am a strong proponent of integrating the web into classrooms, I know better than to rely solely on information found through a Google or Wikipedia search. That isn't to say that all information is trash; it simply means that I prefer to verify it against trusted sources. On an everyday level, I'm prone to use Snopes.com to verify or disprove the fantastic rumors that spread through the web community. To keep straight on news and politics, I like to check things out on FactCheck.org. And for serious research, I always look for peer-reviewed material to back up or disprove what I'm seeing online. But the web is were I always start. A simple search on Wikipedia will give me a background and starting point. The "See Also," References and External Links sections are also useful in giving me ideas on how to broaden or even help me narrow down my research. And it helps me know what terms may be useful in searching databases such as Ebsco.
Then again, there are several quality web articles that will not appear in scholarly databases. For example, many fields such as technology and web design change to quickly to hold out for peer-review. It would not make sense for the authors of coding tutorials to submit their work for journal publication because it would likely be outdated before it was published.
In cases such as these, it pays to know where to look for backup. For example, in the field of web design, it would make sense to check an article against the W3C to see if the technology is well-supported. Also, it would be wise to seek opinions in respected forums. And lastly, it would pay to check the reputation of the author, asking yourself questions such as "Is the author well-respected in the community?" or "What is their influence?"
The main take-away from this is to find a balance between current information and information that has had time to be generally accepted as accurate.
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I choose the web search because over the traditional library search. the source i used is above through ebsco. i choose this because in a matter of seconds we can have information in on our top, rather then having to go to the library then have too go fins the book then read for the information you are looking for. i also believe the information has more quality because you can you are able to have the computer scan for key words rather then trying to scan 30 pages with your eyes. that is when information over load comes into play because you are reading so much information that yo end up skipping over the key ideas that you are looking for and settle for the minor ideas. for these reasons i beleve the web search is better then the traditional library search.
This is a follow up comment to work commented by Angie, Eric, and Omoruyi. Angela's perspective about balance considering speed of change is excellent. Per Omoruyi's point, Google product often doesn't provide full access to the paper version, thus needs to be aware when it comes to sharing. Per Eric's post, I have to disagree. Consuming only short form contents is not the best to develop in-depth knowledge. Balance is a key.
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This will be a rant, so let me apologize ahead of time about the negative connotations of the following message.
Lately I am unable to feel real inspiration in Instructional Design and Technology. I am taking 3 IDT courses this semester, and unless something changes I may suffer a mental breakdown. I just don't see the point. These videos in these blogs are quite interesting and informative, but unless the people that watch them don't do anything more than watch the video the world of education and instructional design and technology will remain unchanged.
I am aware of people who make more than 6 figures a year just working with SQL, but outside of an insurance company, what other reasons do companies need to constantly access an online database? There are many retail inventory control programs that are better than a standard database.
As a society do we really need to embrace all this technology that is being provided to us? Are we that much better off now that we have Facebook, and other social media sites? I personally think this reliance on technology has created a lazier human being, we are used to things being instantly available, and some people feel entitled to having things whenever they ask for them. What hope is there for society, and we are society.
We have built our lives around the automobile and the internet, I personally feel we are less connected with our peers than we were even 10 years ago. The creation of the "smart phone" has created the stupid person. People no longer feel the need to learn information, when if they need to look something up they just search for it on their phone.
As a society we need to grow deeper connections with each other, it creates a more meaningful existence. We as a species crave some form of vocal interaction in our lives. Imagine a day in you life when no one said a word to you, now imagine when you walk into places, people greet your arrival, if nothing else, now imagine a long run on sentence. But anyway, I think you get the idea, just some form of positive interaction will make your day better.
Now to address the topic somewhat....
I applaud you if you made it this far reading everything, it relieved some of my stress writing it, and hopefully did not add to much to your own personal stress level. Right the topic.
The lack of filtering what is posted to the internet has created the need for online search engines and even academic search engines to create filters, while in the academic sense, you are somewhat in control of those filters, for any web search, you are in no way in control, the algorithm created by the search provider is essentially what is doing the filtering.
Oh and the NSA is also monitoring web searches through the use of 3rd party contractors, to insure you are not a terrorist.
I use google because it gives more sources then the EBSCO search. Searching on google I even found universities that teach Instructional gaming. One of these is Utah State University and another is Western Illinois University. The only thing that can be bad with a google search is that sometimes you can have too many results that it can be inconvenient to sift through all of them. With using EBSCO host to search for any articles you can narrow down your search and the quality of the results so that it can be more effective. I would have to say that web search and library search should be used equally. They both have good qualities and bad ones and different search results will appear on each site.
I usually use google because first it is usually the first place I go to search for information no matter what type and also it's easy to you. Whenever I try to us a library search I don't feel that it gives me what I was looking for. The sources that you find on google however usually are not as good as the sources that you can find in a library search. If you use google scholar the sources are of much better quality that regular goolge searching. So I feel that if you know how to use it a library search is probably the better option but most people would rather use google since it is easier.
After searching about "e-learning in higher education" using wiu library database and Google search, I found that using library database is more beneficial to build the most effective search. Because it provides more relevant results, and allows search for key words to limit the results. So, library database will save time, and provide the most relevant and appropriate results. Using a library database allows to search for information in an organized collection for exert authors . while Google search links to many online articles and everything related to the key words : web pages, blogs, video, doc, pdf.
Google search is good for quick answers, but library database is good for build the most effective search and access the most reliable research.
After experimenting with Google search and the WIU library search,I found that it is more helpful to use the WIU library database search. My search was for game simulation and when I used Google, it gave me millions of results to chose from but when using the library database I was able to cut down on all of the unwanted articles and find what I really wanted. I used quotations for game simulation on both search engines and the library database still did a better job locating exactly what I wanted. I found that using the database will save you a ton of time instead of using Google for the key information that you are really looking for.
After using the Google search and WIU library search, I feel that using a library database search is much better that using Google search. I search e-learning and instructional design, WIU library database gives me 32 results instead of millions of results Google gives me. WIU library search gives many control of the final results that you can choose what you want to see instead of it gives you everything and you have to search again in the result that the search engine gives you.
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I use google as well to search for information because it is more convenient. But after searching educational technology on google and WIU library database I found out that in WIU library it has more reliable information compared with google which it has all kinds of information.
When searching the web, it is easy to find garbage. When searching to find a article that is academic. It is best to have filters on your search to narrow i down. When you first search digital literacy on Google, you get 15,400,000 results. To look and filter though all of that is a lot to go though. It is great to have access to a place that is academic papers only, but you still have to filter things down to what you want. No matter where you search, there is still so much content that you have to know how to search now.
Like a lot of the comments here, I was able to find a nice array of specific results with the WIU library option. When searching with google, the options are much more scattered around and diverse, making it a hassle to narrow my results down.
I found that EBSCO was a much better option for narrowing my search than an engine like Google. By searching for 'gamification' in the top field, and then 'education' and 'instruction', EBSCO was able to narrow my results to a list of 10. While Google did give me some interesting results, I had trouble sifting through all of them to find results that were relevant and useful. At the most specific (after using terms like near and terms in quotations) Google gave me over a million pages to look at. Of course, when you compare the two, you should also consider that Google is a business first, so sites can pay Google to make themselves more 'visible' in their engine.
Great points about balancing (Joe) and ease of use (Melissa). Good points about specific results and high quality from library database search (Asmaa, Garrett, Lucia, Jordan, Jimmy, and Gu), and the importance of using proper keywords and filters (Boolean logic) - Garrett and Kathryn. Ken, very interesting post, we are not solving the problem, but points are well taken and they are important. We should look at glass half full than empty as IDT professionals.
No one method is better, I agree with Joe - depending on what you search, results will differ, and comparing search results from multiple sources is important, especially if the topic is significant.
When looking for resources for school projects and papers, I've always used Google first. The reason I would always turn to google, is that it shows hundreds and hundreds of results relating to what I search. Not only can I, most of the time, find exactly what I am looking for, but it also provides links to related searches, so that I can gather further information on the topic. Unfortunately, when related to school projects and papers, not all sites are considered reliable sources. This could be because the information is incorrect or copied from another website. Of course you can use google scholar, to get more information that is considered to be appropriate for school work, you are sometimes limited to the information they provide, such as abstracts, only a few number of pages, and in order to access more information, some sites want you to purchase the article or paper. With EBSCO you can search items that are considered academically appropriate and almost always provided with the entire article. EBSCO also allows you to narrow down your search by searching keywords and using AND or OR to further narrow it down. The only downfall to EBSCO is that, depending on what you are searching, you may not get as many results as you would using google or another search engine. Another thing with EBSCO is that you may have to adjust the keywords you are using to even get any results at all. I think both forms of searching are effective, but it depends on the quality of information you are seeking. If you are looking up general information on a topic, both can be useful, but if you are looking for content that is scholarly and correct, then EBSCO is the way to go.
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