Teaching+Zack+Webliteracy

//Alan November Senior Partner, November Learning, Marblehead, MA//
 * Teaching Zack to Think** – Web literacy

[|Alan] shared the story behind the creation of his landmark workshop [|Teaching Zack to Think] He asked the participants what they knew about specifics of web site grammar and stressed the importance of helping students develop evaluation skills when they are searching for information on the internet. Did you know that you can use the [|Way Back Machine] to display over 85 million now defunct websites? He asked us about search engine preference and explained how different search engines rank their results and why some are better suited to specific type searches than others. To demonstrate how to search for blog postings about a chosen subject using [|Technorati], Alan used the tag BLC07.When the results came up, he chose one called [|Double Whammy]. Alan opened the blog posting and exclaimed that he didn’t know who this person was who was writing about him. A hand went up from the middle of the room and a Syracuse area librarian exclaimed "It’s me!”. The men shook hands and shared a ‘wow moment’.

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 * “As soon as teachers are free from worrying about the technical details, their minds are more available to think creatively about what their students could achieve. And, chances are the teams of students did acquire the technical skills. Now the students are in a formally sanctioned position to provide technical support back in the classroom.”**