"Is Sven Seven?"

Dragovic, Nevena; Azpiazu, Ion Madrazo; Pera, Maria Soledad

doi:10.1145/2911451.2914738

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“…Vidinli and Ozcan (2016) tailor query suggestions to bias the search process toward resources aligned with K-12 requirements. Other works examine query suggestion, result filtering and ranking strategies for K-12 audiences (Bilal, 2013; Collins-Thompson et al , 2011; Dragovic et al , 2016); yet they serve students initiating the search, not teachers looking for classroom resources.…”

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Enhancing classroom instruction with online news

Ekstrand

Wright

Pera

2020

AJIM

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PurposeThis paper investigates how school teachers look for informational texts for their classrooms. Access to current, varied and authentic informational texts improves learning outcomes for K-12 students, but many teachers lack resources to expand and update readings. The Web offers freely available resources, but finding suitable ones is time-consuming. This research lays the groundwork for building tools to ease that burden.Design/methodology/approachThis paper reports qualitative findings from a study in two stages: (1) a set of semistructured interviews, based on the critical incident technique, eliciting teachers' information-seeking practices and challenges; and (2) observations of teachers using a prototype teaching-oriented news search tool under a think-aloud protocol.FindingsTeachers articulated different objectives and ways of using readings in their classrooms, goals and self-reported practices varied by experience level. Teachers struggled to formulate queries that are likely to return readings on specific course topics, instead searching directly for abstract topics. Experience differences did not translate into observable differences in search skill or success in the lab study.Originality/valueThere is limited work on teachers' information-seeking practices, particularly on how teachers look for texts for classroom use. This paper describes how teachers look for information in this context, setting the stage for future development and research on how to support this use case. Understanding and supporting teachers looking for information is a rich area for future research, due to the complexity of the information need and the fact that teachers are not looking for information for themselves.

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Enhancing classroom instruction with online news

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Wright

Pera

2020

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“…Web search is an important domain to consider because many children use web search tools almost daily [9,10] and search is a setting where children's writing and reading skills enable them to interact with a broader and increasingly important part of their digital world. Effective web search requires the application of multiple skills that are required for effective query formulation, including literacy (i.e., typing, spelling words, composing words into phrases), understanding how search results are structured, determining if a resource returned by a search engine is relevant (i.e., what they were looking for, and reformulating their query to refine their search).…”

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“…Children are increasingly turning to search engines to seek information on the Internet [1,2,3,4,5], but these young children (ages [6][7][8][9][10][11] are still in the process of learning literacy skills which, as argued in [6], affects how they search for and consume information. Web search for children seems like an obvious setting where an intelligent conversational agent such as a spoken dialogue system or interactive virtual agent could make the search process easier by automatically transcribing child speech into search terms (so the child doesn't have to type), performing the search, then selecting and reading aloud the information that the agent thinks that the child is searching for.…”

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Conversational Agents and Children: Let Children Learn

Kennington¹,

Fails²,

Wright³

et al. 2023

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Using online information discovery as a case study, in this position paper we discuss the need to design, develop, and deploy (conversational) agents that can -non-intrusively -guide children in their quest for online resources rather than simply finding resources for them. We argue that agents should "let children learn" and should be built to take on a teacher-facilitator function, allowing children to develop their technical and critical thinking abilities as they interact with varied technology in a broad range of use cases. 1

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“…The problem of formulating succinct queries can also be observed among children. Dragovic, Madrazo Azpiazu, & Pera [21] suggested a solution to this problem involving a module that creates queries to capture the information needs children try to express. A study by Singer, Norbisrath, & Lewandowski [6] showed that search engine users had difficulties especially when solving complex search tasks.…”

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Misplaced trust? The relationship between trust, ability to identify commercially influenced results and search engine preference

Schultheiß

Lewandowski

2021

Journal of Information Science

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People have a high level of trust in search engines, especially Google, but only limited knowledge of them, as numerous studies have shown. This leads to the question: To what extent is this trust justified considering the lack of familiarity among users with how search engines work and the business models they are founded on? We assume that trust in Google, search engine preferences and knowledge of result types are interrelated. To examine this assumption, we conducted a representative online survey with n = 2012 German Internet users. We show that users with little search engine knowledge are more likely to trust and use Google than users with more knowledge. A contradiction revealed itself – users strongly trust Google, yet they are unable to adequately evaluate search results. For those users, this may be problematic since it can potentially affect knowledge acquisition. Consequently, there is a need to promote user information literacy to create a more solid foundation for user trust in search engines. The impact of our study lies in emphasising the need for creating appropriate training formats to promote information literacy.

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"Is Sven Seven?"

Cited by 18 publications

References 14 publications

Enhancing classroom instruction with online news

Enhancing classroom instruction with online news

Conversational Agents and Children: Let Children Learn

Misplaced trust? The relationship between trust, ability to identify commercially influenced results and search engine preference

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