Learning Skills : A Unit 5 Lesson 9

The World Wide Web has made information readily available to everyone. What gauges do people use, to know if the information is credible? What basis do we use, to know if the information is correct? How do we assess the information found on web sites? What factors are considered to ensure the accuracy of the information on the web?

Online search / internet searching has become an essential for students and scholars. What typically took place in libraries, by phone calls or visits to experts in the field is being changed because of the Internet. Experts can sometimes be contacted by email and information, whether it is addresses, phone numbers, or detailed specifics on a certain subject, can be accessed on the World Wide Web. Search Engines have become the most important tools in locating this information, so it is important to know how to use them effectively. Search skills can be developed through practice in using the search engines and by reading the help pages provided by the

We learned about how reading a text and then searching the Internet for websites, videos, and images can help in understanding the topic better. It can also help in making a decision about whether you are more inclined to believe an argument when the original text you read was a persuasive text. With more information, you can make better choices, but remember that not everything on the Internet is trustworthy and true!

Using the Internet to search for more information on a topic is a good idea and

50 years ago, college students devoted a great amount of time to studying- on average 24 hours a week. Now, the average has dwindled dramatically to a measly 15 hours per week. Why is this? In recent years, high schools have been seeing a decline in young peoples’ performances as school itself becomes faster paced and increasingly scrupulous. As many young people are losing study time due to activities like jobs and extracurriculars, grades are going down. If teens in high school cannot keep up with the pace of classes, how will one be able to keep up with the brisk strides of college? Or even further on in the workplace? Schools should institute mandatory study skills classes in junior high school or middle school to counter the lack of study skills in American youth in order to better support life skills in high school and beyond.

Once I was on the Yahoo directory, I came upon different categories and clicked onto the health category. Following the health category came sub categories of which I clicked onto the option of childhood obesity. Once I had done as such, I was given results for many websites regarding eating disorders. By clicking onto the second result, I obtained my first website. I then successfully took a screenshot of the first page. For my final search, the search via advanced search in Google for a website, I literally typed in Google advanced search into Google. Following this, I then typed ‘eating disorders amongst teenagers’ into the search box of ‘all these words.’ For narrowing down my search, I had chosen English for the language and Australia for the region. The first result provided was the website I chose.

Another method is context search. The context search adds context to the search criteria. “Context search helps improve the keyword search solution by addressing the problems present in keyword searches related to synonymy and polysemy. Synonymy is a common linguistic issue where different words are used to express the same concept, and polysemy is where the same word can have different meanings” (Fordham, 2013). The context search method combines several advance techniques in a simple user interface, making searches

During the time spent researching articles I used a multiple of different search terms. For example, I

Google offers a useful tool called Custom Search, which allows web developers to create a custom search engine for any website. Just define the URL to be searched, and Google

A person can't be successful at learning new skills, without being familiar with how we actually learn something, including the components of knowing, and the components of knowledge and the difference in these descriptions.

According to Daily Changes, 100,000 web pages are registered every single day. Of the 100,000 that were created today, how many of them can one expect to be accurate and informative? When truly performing scholarly research, how is one expected to be able to distinguish the good from the bad and the bad from the ugly? An effective information source will have proper depth, an appropriate domain name, and citations for sources.

There are several term based approaches have been proposed by information retrieval to solve the issue of finding exact features in the text documents which includes Support Vector Machine (SVM), probabilistic model, probabilistic models and filtering models [4]. The term based models however deals with issues like synonym: Multiple words which has same meaning and polysemy: a word with several meanings. It is sometime uncertain to discover the meaning of what the user require. Text mining technique is a method of discovering previously unknown, complicated and potentially valuable information from the text documents.

I am using quotation marks in the search as it brings back results with the specific phrase in the website. The results will be more precis e to the items I wanted.

I would like to share with you what I have recently learned about obtaining information through the Internet. The Internet is a tremendous potential source of information about virtually any imaginable topic of interest. However, because there is no regulation or quality control over what people choose to publish online, it is crucial to learn ways of distinguishing credible, reliable, factually accurate information sources from those that are not credible, unreliable, factually inaccurate sources. For example, websites that are maintained by government agencies, accredited university research programs, and licensed professionals are good candidates to be considered reliable sources of information online.

The Internet creates lots of difficulty and challenges for retrieving information from web pages. It is huge, containing over 200 million web pages with many more appearing every day. Compounding the matter is the fact that web pages are very distinct in content, ranging from puppies to scientific papers