The DTA as search coach:
How does that work?
Especially for project-based learning
Project-based learning often creates a need for effective search. Just the place to provide JIT learning on web-search skills. This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).
The Empty Classroom
What, no computers?
- Google search is the main search engine used in the U.S.
- So the DTA Search Coach is focused on that.
- How to use Google search is well known and well documented.
- The easy way to instruct on using Google search is to give a curated list of links.
- Imagine a football coach handing out sheets with these links.
- "Read these and you will know how to play football," says the coach.
- Absurd? Of course. Football requires skills.
- Using Google search is a skill. You do not learn a skill by reading about it.
- Google 101: How to Search And Get Results You Want
- You learn a skill by practicing it and (perhaps) figuring out how to do it better.
- It may help to have a coach suggesting ways to improve.
- There may be hundreds of known ways to improve. But you can't use hundreds.
- You need a few good ways that fit your situation (as a beginner, for example.).
- DTA Search Coach can do that.
The DTA
- The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary
- A Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) in MUVE (virtual world): What would it do?
- A digital teaching assistant (DTA) in a virtual world. Can it be done?
- Digital coaching is needed for the DTA: Do we have the technology for that?
Search strategy for a project
- Digicoach will work from this plan, but deliver a little at a time if the user needs it.
- Suggested notetaker: Google Keep
Some things you may use frequently
- Search on page: Ctrl+f, find search bar near the top of your page.
- The code in the address bar of a search return works as a Hypertext link.
- (Copy that code into a url request window to make the term repeat the search.)
- Avoid this term: -this term
- Search on site:
- Site: [url] [search term]
Start
- Do you know one word or phrase that says what you are looking for?
- If yes, you will search on that and finish.
- If you can say what you want in the form of a question, use the question.
- If no, use several terms that describe what you seek.
- That includes synonyms. A thesaurus may help.
- Save your search term in your notes and give it to Google search
The first returns for a project search
- Don't expect the first returns to give all you need unless the goal is simple.
- And don't look beyond the first page.
- For a project, expect to look beyond the first search.
- On the first page, you may see some questions like the ones you had in mind.
- If so, check the answers and copy the questions to your notes.
- You may see a special item: "Scholarly articles about [your search]"
- You may want to save that item to your notes (with its link).
- If you need scholarly articles, open that special item and see what is available.
- Read the abstract of any scholarly articles that fit your search objective.
- Watch for other terms you might use in search
- Open and read a little of any respected sources: Wikipedia, Mayo clinic.
- Check respected sources for other terms you could use in another search.
You may need smart searches
- If you are working on a project, you may need to cite multiple sources.
- Think of titles for your project or for sections of it
- Try searching on some of those titles.
- You may have to sift through many possibilities
- Search with Chrome (search)
- Google search operators
- Google search operators (search)
DTA articles
General
- A Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) in a MUVE (virtual world): What would it do?
- A digital teaching assistant (DTA) in a virtual world. Can it be done?
- Digital coaching is needed for the DTA: Do we have the technology for that?
- Online education, sure. But why a virtual campus? Why in a virtual world (MUVE)?
Development considerations
Possible services, education
- The Digital Teaching Assistant fits with the practice of blended learning
- F/Xual Education Services: Occupational Medicine Simulation. A HUD is a Digicoach without personality
- Error based learning in writing. Combine project-based learning with test-based learning. And maybe get a useful product out of it.
- Digicoach can support collaborative homework and study sessions
- Digicoach can support homework in virtual worlds with JIT learning, immediate feedback
- Digicoach for project-management in self-managed teams: (Note: skills to be learned in doing these tasks)
- David Lee - Design Thinking in the Classroom: How-to for project-based learning
Possible services, virtual worlds
- Travel tips for the Hypergrid. A DTA content page
- Newcomer welcome coach (1): Basic skills needed promptly
- DTA content pages: The plan: Initial DTA content on the web here. Can be used from here or copied for use elsewhere.
- Firestorm settings for beginners. A DTA content page
New century education
- Once you hear lecture about swimming, you never forget what you learned about lectures. Talking is not teaching
- Just-In-Time (JIT) learning in virtual schools, maybe with DTA coaching. Language as an example
- Why a reading assignment is like a treasure hunt. And why it is not
- Suppose the real objective in school is to pass multiple-choice tests. Can a digital TA handle test-based learning?
- Immersive Technologies (Heritage Christian Online School)
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Is Google search artificial intelligence?
- You already have artificial intelligence on call: Google search
- Artificial intelligence (Wikipedia)
- Artificial intelligence (Search)
- The google search engine is artificial intelligence (search)
- Google search (search)
- Google 101: How to Search And Get Results You Want
- Artificial intelligence is what has not been done yet
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