searching the web to develop inquiry and collaborative skills
Learning how to search for information on the Web is a process both of technique and intuition. Although the former can be taught, the latter must be experienced. The exercise called the treasure hunt consisted of questions that were to be answered using the Web search engines. Questions were on geography, popular culture, art, history, science, technology and current events. This exercise aimed to help students to develop their own investigating senses while assimilating computer techniques and acquiring general knowledge. This paper presents the results of an experiment that used an assignment involving collaborative and inquiry processes to acquire efficient heuristics to search the Web.
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