{"id":128,"date":"2008-11-04T21:48:29","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T01:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/2008\/11\/04\/teaching-googling-at-a-young-age\/"},"modified":"2008-11-04T21:48:29","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T01:48:29","slug":"teaching-googling-at-a-young-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/teaching-googling-at-a-young-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Googling at a Young Age"},"content":{"rendered":"

Schools need to teach “how to find answers to questions on the Internet”, starting at a fairly early age (like middle-school).<\/p>\n

We’ve shifted from “knowing it” as the key skill, to “being able to find it”. \u00a0And I’m shocked at the range of ability (even with adults) on translating a given query to a Google search, refining the query, using Wikipedia where possible, and sifting through results to get a consensus answer.<\/p>\n

I’m starting to teach my kids to be power researchers.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Schools need to teach “how to find answers to questions on the Internet”, starting at a fairly early age (like middle-school). We’ve shifted from “knowing it” as the key skill, to “being able to find it”. \u00a0And I’m shocked at … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}