Week #3 - Thing #7 Musings on Technology

My working observation is that middle school students don't get as much out of the research process today compared to pre-computer days.

So I reviewed back almost 40 years to my university librarian days and teaching the Wilson indexes. I have to conclude that although the searching then required some critical & higher order thinking skills, not employed by my students today, the selection of article(s) was probably as random as it is now. After all that time searching, you took the first articles you found.

Of course, Wilson had selection criteria but Google continues to improve their hits. For student learning, the answer again is the quality of the lesson plan.