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- R. Retrum, Lead Librarian
- Maine South High School
- Library Resource Center
- Park Ridge, Illinois
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- Question: Who is more successful doing common web tasks?
- Adults or Teens
- Answer: Success rate for Adults is 66% for Teens 55%*
- *Nielsen, Jakob. “Teenagers on the Web” April 2005.
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- Insufficient reading skills – (prefer clean and simple sites)
- Less sophisticated research skills (do not use advanced searching
strategies)
- Much lower patience level – (bored and easily frustrated)
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- John is searching for (early 19th-century Paris commonly
called The French Restoration, as a pre-reading assignment for Les
Miserables )
- Restoration Hardware
- Religious movements
- Restoring files from computers
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- Linda has been asked to research the Bourbon Dynasty, one of the most
powerful ruling families of Europe.
- Kentucky Bourbon
- Mixed drinks
- TV show entitled “The Dynasty”
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- Asking Google a question!
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- Use quotation marks (“Great Depression”)
- Use a minus (-) sign to exclude words
- Limit search by using the site operator
- (site:edu, site:gov, site:org, site:mil)
- “seasonal depression” -great site:edu
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Notes