There it is again!

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So we still want to teach internet searching skills, huh? We still think that school children, and adults, need a couple of lessons in which we explain to them how to type inside a little box after first clicking inside it with the mouse? Just what does being adept at a skill such as this mean? Being able to type quickly? (Even if we type with spelling mistakes, Google can probably correct them, so that's not really particularly important.) Thinking that we can/should train kids to search seems to be a bit like training them to walk - it's a skill they're going to pick up without formal lessons, but knowing where to walk (and where not to), or when to walk instead of running ... those demand real training. Acquiring those skills probably demand adult intervention.

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Go to: But you're an information professional, aren't you?, or
Go to: The tyranny of search.