IS.5 Use Search Strategies

Info search strategies (including search and browse skills)

In My Life

I can consider the suggestions made by the search engine after entering my search phrase and keywords. (AI)

In My Work

I can use the find command (CTRL+F) and a specific search phrase and/or keyword to locate relevant information within lengthy documents.

In My Education

I can apply strategies such as using quotation marks to generate exact phrase matches when searching online, on my computer, or in my cloud-based file storage system.

As a Teacher/Trainer

I can work on writing better prompts to get better results when engaging with a chatbot like ChatGPT. (AI)

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Basic Search: Practice

AT&T Connected Learning

  • eModule
  • EF.2 Search the Internet
  • IS.5 Use Search Strategies
https://att.digitallearn.org/courses/basic-search-ca4d47b1-9ddf-4446-a5d2-3e12de97595f/lessons/practice-att
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Basic Search: A Basic Search

AT&T Connected Learning

  • eModule
  • EF.2 Search the Internet
  • EF.7 Understand the Internet
  • IS.5 Use Search Strategies
https://att.digitallearn.org/courses/basic-search-ca4d47b1-9ddf-4446-a5d2-3e12de97595f/lessons/what-is-a-search-engine-att
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Basic Search: Ads in Search Results

AT&T Connected Learning

  • eModule
  • EF.2 Search the Internet
  • IS.3 Evaluate Online Information
  • IS.5 Use Search Strategies
  • IS.7 Understand Search Results
https://att.digitallearn.org/courses/basic-search-ca4d47b1-9ddf-4446-a5d2-3e12de97595f/lessons/ads-in-search-results-att
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Basic Search: Basic Search

AT&T Connected Learning

  • eModule
  • EF.2 Search the Internet
  • IS.5 Use Search Strategies
https://att.digitallearn.org/courses/basic-search-ca4d47b1-9ddf-4446-a5d2-3e12de97595f/lessons/a-basic-search
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Basic Search

AT&T Connected Learning

  • eModule
  • EF.2 Search the Internet
  • EF.7 Understand the Internet
  • IS.3 Evaluate Online Information
  • IS.5 Use Search Strategies
  • IS.7 Understand Search Results
https://att.digitallearn.org/courses/basic-search-ca4d47b1-9ddf-4446-a5d2-3e12de97595f
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Google Search or AI Chatbot?

Senior Planet

Learn what questions AI chatbots can help with and when a traditional Google Search is best.

  • Video
  • IS.2 Access Information Sources
  • IS.5 Use Search Strategies
  • IS.7 Understand Search Results
  • LL.2 Adapt to New Technology
https://youtu.be/oq3TndNc0UU?si=BMXbInANvulu-fXs
https://youtu.be/oq3TndNc0UU?si=BMXbInANvulu-fXs
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Searching the Internet from a Phone (Beginning)

Digital Literacy Skills Curriculum

From World Relief, a digital skills lesson designed for learners at beginning literacy levels.

  • Lesson Plan/Activity Guide
  • EF.3 Use Basic Browser Tools
  • EF.2 Search the Internet
  • IS.2 Access Information Sources
  • IS.5 Use Search Strategies
https://www.skillblox.org/skillblox/1KDO3G
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Finding a Teacher's Email on a School Website (Emergent)

Digital Literacy Skills Curriculum

From World Relief, a digital skills lesson designed for learners at emergent literacy levels.

  • Lesson Plan/Activity Guide
  • IS.2 Access Information Sources
  • EF.2 Search the Internet
  • IS.5 Use Search Strategies
https://www.skillblox.org/skillblox/XI24YE
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Lesson 3: Hallucination Detective

AI for Education

Teach students about the risks of over-relying on AI chatbots using this fast-paced, hands-on lesson. In this lesson, students play the role of a ‘Hallucination Detective’, investigating how and why generative AI chatbots sometimes produce answers that contain incorrect or made-up information. To do this, students examine a real-life case study and then test and fact-check an AI chatbot’s answers for inaccuracies or made-up information, known as hallucinations. Lastly, students create a short presentation on the risks of chatbot hallucination and propose methods to combat it.

  • Lesson Plan/Activity Guide
  • IS.3 Evaluate Online Information
  • IS.5 Use Search Strategies
https://www.aiforeducation.io/curriculum/lesson-3
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Lesson 2: The Mind of a Machine

AI for Education

In this lesson, students explore what generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is, and how it is trained to respond to human prompts. Students then use the game ‘Celebrity Heads’ to compare ChatGPT, a Generative AI (GenAI) Chatbot, to human intelligence. Students then synthesize their learning by evaluating what ChatGPT’s performance in Celebrity Heads tells us about the strengths and limitations of GenAI today.

  • Lesson Plan/Activity Guide
  • IS.2 Access Information Sources
  • IS.5 Use Search Strategies
  • IS.3 Evaluate Online Information
  • LL.2 Adapt to New Technology
https://www.aiforeducation.io/curriculum/lesson-2
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Lesson 1: Interview a Chatbot

AI for Education

In this hands-on lesson, students will be introduced to the functions, opportunities, and risks of large language model chatbots and broader artificial intelligence (AI). After identifying AI and chatbots they already interact with, students will draft questions and ‘interview’ a chatbot like ChatGPT. At the end of the lesson, students will peer review the interviews and reflect on what they learned.

  • Lesson Plan/Activity Guide
  • IS.2 Access Information Sources
  • IS.5 Use Search Strategies
  • LL.2 Adapt to New Technology
https://www.aiforeducation.io/curriculum/lesson-1
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Information Literacy

Northstar Digital Literacy Assessment

This free assessment can be used to check your skills.

  • Quiz/Assessment
  • IS.5 Use Search Strategies
  • IS.7 Understand Search Results
  • IS.1 Use and Apply Information
  • IS.2 Access Information Sources
  • IS.3 Evaluate Online Information
  • IS.6 Organize Information and Files
  • EF.2 Search the Internet
  • EF.3 Use Basic Browser Tools
  • WO.4 Choose the Appropriate Tools
https://www.digitalliteracyassessment.org/#take-assessment
https://www.digitalliteracyassessment.org/go/?module=22
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