One of the ways I try to help people do Google searches is to tell them: type in the window the words you would use in searching the old library card catalog. But what happens when that advice no longer makes sense? This was triggered by a post on the NYTimes article describing a private west coast school which banned all technology. Does searching in Google come naturally, or is it learned?
I think the later.
In some ways this is like learning to type--I vaguely remember an article saying that kids were picking up typing by the availability of PC's, etc. with keyboards. But how many of those kids will be able to do 40 wpm with 1 mistake?
I guess I'm starting this week as a grump.
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