FIA is exploring a “search mastery” initiative for enabling students to detect “BS” and find quality information online across disciplines, and has started compiling a list of resources for mastering online search. In the quest for solutions to the future of facts in a post-truth world, search mastery is an important tool.
Search Courses
Power Searching
“Improve your Google search skills with our Power Searching and Advanced Power Searching online course” by Dan Russell, Google
Calling Bullshit
An undergraduate course for learning to detect and defuse bullshit by Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West, University of Washington. It is not currently available as an online course but the full syllabus and videos of the lectures are available on their website.
Search Workshop
Workshop on how to become a power search user and continue down the path of being a lifelong learner taught by Dan Russell, Google (April 2016). Worksheet handout and search tipsheet available on-line.
Finding Information by Subject
On-line module on how to use resources provided by the UM Libraries and available for free on the Internet to find appropriate resources to answer research questions. Developed as part of the Professional Writing Program.
Search Blogs
SearchResearch
“A blog about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to use Google effectively, learning how to do research” by Dan Russell, Google
Search Engine Tips
How To Search on Google (Google)
Google Tricks That’ll Change the Way you Search (Time, Feb 2016)
Bing Help (Bing)
Why Search Mastery Is Needed
@SearchMastery
New Jersey becomes first state to mandate K-12 students learn information literacy - POLITICO https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/05/new-jersey-is-the-first-state-to-mandate-k-12-students-learn-information-literacy-00076352
I am so proud of my bride (still my bride after 30 years) and the work she does to make life's journey better for the women she looks after. She is willing to take the time to listen, and she makes herself available even for calls at home. She is my hero.
Meet Our Team: Gail Chinoy - Calvary Women's Services
“My hope is that I can make life a little bit easier for residents by providing another source of support.” ...
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Spoiler alert? Is it the final scene of The Last of Us? https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1629083030370537478
It’s happening.
Indeed. Looking through this perfect thread kicked off by the dictionary gurus, I am quite guilty of tsundoku, I delight in soubhiyé whenever I can, I could do with some apapachar, and the world would be a better place with more sisu, a Finnish word that the Ukrainians exemplify. https://twitter.com/dfallik/status/1631064947198181378
I don't know who is doing the social media for Merriam-Webster lately but they are killing it. This thread is 🔥🔥🔥 https://twitter.com/MerriamWebster/status/1630580710208688129
Bravo! https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/05/new-jersey-is-the-first-state-to-mandate-k-12-students-learn-information-literacy-00076352
For suggesting a link from @VRspace_ that we've now added to the FIA page of VR/AR links, thanks to the Lyndhurst (NJ) STEM Club, which cultivates girls’ interest and passion for STEM. https://fia.umd.edu/vr-links/
My friend of 40 years, ace writing coach @chipscanlan, spoke with my journalism freshmen @merrillcollege. I got them copies of Chip's terrific "33 Ways Not To Screw Up Your Journalism" to see if they would read it on their own. They are, and they love it!
In my course on journalism history for 1st-year students, we talked yesterday about the path to mastery in writing. I pulled these from my shelf. To be a writer, you need to read. Thanks to friends @powellnyt & @DanBarryNYT & to John McPhee & Annie Dillard.
Thank YOU, Michael. My only disappointment in reading "Canyon Dreams" is that came to an end! I recommend it it all my students and friends who are interested in sports, narrative nonfiction or the great variety of American life. https://twitter.com/powellnyt/status/1570876681115815936
@ichinoy @DanBarryNYT Thank you Ira and I am honored to be in the company
If you hear "woke" as a pejorative, the hijacked term originally expressed aspirations of African Americans - "about a core truth: that the U.S. has a long way to go to turn our perception of ourselves as a nation of freedom & justice into reality for all" https://steady.substack.com/p/blowing-the-anti-woke-dog-whistle?r=l4wt2&utm_medium=ios
