Lesson video

This is unit one, Computing systems and networks, Communication.

It is lesson one of six.

How our search is influenced.

For this lesson, you will need an awareness of internet searching.

If you're going to be using an internet-connected device to access websites, please make sure you do so with supervision from a parent or guardian.

Hello, everyone.

My name is Jane Adamson and I'm your computing teacher.

Welcome.

For this lesson, you will need something to write with, something to write on, and an internet-connected device.

Please take a moment before you start to clear away any distractions, including turning off any notifications on apps, so you can focus.

Try to find a quiet space, where you can work without disruption during the lesson.

Pause the video when you need to.

Okay, let's get started.

Lesson one: Searching the web.

In this lesson, you will identify how to use a search engine to complete a web search, to find specific information, refine your web search and compare results from different search engines.

The key vocabulary that you will be covering is search engine, Google, Bing, Yahoo, Swisscows, DuckDuckGo and refine.

Here are some of the websites.

Take a moment to think about each of these websites.

Pause the video, and then when you thought about each website, move on to the next slide.

How much do you know about each of these different websites? So you've had time to think about these different websites.

Let's now think about what their purpose is.

Bing, the first one, is the Microsoft search engine.

Google, which many of you will have heard of and used, is the most popular search engine in the world.

DuckDuckGo is a search engine that focuses on privacy.

Yahoo was the most popular search engine before Google, and finally Swisscows, which is a family friendly search site that doesn't show, share or store user's data.

So how did you get on? Hopefully you came up with some comments like these.

The main thing I really want you to focus on is the fact that they're all different search engines.

Did you come up with ideas like this? Now that you started to think more about search engines, you're going to look at how you use, how you search, using those search engines.

Let's take a look at task one.

How would you use a search engine to find out what year Mahatma Gandhi was born? Pause the video to give you time to answer this question.

How would you use a search engine to find out what your Mahatma Gandhi was born? Write down the steps that you would take to find out the answer to your question.

The steps should be clear enough for someone to follow.

Use the correct terms. For example, worldwide web, browser, et cetera.

You should do this work from your memory.

Pause the video to give you time to complete this task.

Resume once you have completed it.

So how did you get on with your question? How would you use a search engine to find out what your Mahatma Gandhi was born? You should have some notes.

Now you're going to take on the role of a robot and presume that you know nothing.

Take out your internet enabled device and only follow the instructions that you've written down for task one.

Make sure you only do exactly what is written on the worksheet.

Pause the video while you, as a robot, follow these instructions.

Now it's time for part two of task one.

You will take on the role as yourself and make improvements to the instructions, so that the robot can complete the task.

Remember, you're going to use a different coloured pen when you make changes to your worksheet to show your improvements and how you're making it easier for the robot to complete the task.

Once you finished resume your video.

So we have an example of a set of steps for how your robot can search effectively using the internet.

First of all, decide on which web browser to use.

Then go onto the world wide web, the internet, choose your search engine, so that could be Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo.

Type your text into the search engine, into the box.

For example, what year was Mahatma Gandhi born? And then click on one of the links from the results page.

So how did you get on with your steps? Are they similar? Hopefully they look something like this.

Take a moment to compare your answers, and pause the video if you'd like to.

Task two, this is how you refine your search.

You are going to search for the following terms and make notes about what you find.

Rugby, Sale, and Boot.

Using your internet enabled device, search for these three words.

I would like you to make brief notes about your search results.

Pause the video while you do this.

What did you find out while you were searching? Did you find information about the sport of rugby? Or shop sales? And maybe even boots that you wear on your feet? Have a look at the next slide and you'll find out that I was actually wanting to plan a trip to visit family and friends in Rugby in Warwickshire, Sale in Greater Manchester and Boot in Cumbria.

Let's have a look.

These are the places that you can see I was trying to find some information about now.

Now let's think about how you might go about finding that information by refining your search.

I could have added some more keywords.

For example, I could have typed Boot in Cumbria, and instead of just typing Rugby, I could have typed Rugby in Warwickshire, and I could have typed Sale in Greater Manchester.

This would give the search engine more detail, so that it can search the webpages and give more specific results linked to the keywords that have been typed.

For the final part of task two, refining a search, you need to pause the video and explore how can I improve my search so that I can find the correct information? I'd like you to make some notes, please.

Pause the video and resume once you're finished.

How did you get on with the final part of that task on refining a search? Did you come up with any of these? Add more keywords, or change the keywords, or even you might already know about putting quotation marks around your keywords, so that the search engine looks exactly for that phrase.

Pause the video while you check over and resume when you're ready.

Now you are going to look at different ways to search.

Using the search box and the address bar.

These are two common ways to search.

When using the search engine, the search will be carried out with your chosen search engine.

For example, Google, DuckDuckGo or Bing.

The second main way to search is by entering the text in the address bar.

The search will be carried out in the default search engine, which is determined by the setting in the browser that you're using.

Let's demonstrate this and see how this works in practise.

Here we have our search engine, which is DuckDuckGo.

Here it is.

And I'm using this in Google Chrome.

If I go into the search engine box here and type pictures of a red panda, this is what will come up and you can see that the search has been carried out using DuckDuckGo.

However, if I decide to search in the address bar, which is here, I'm just going to delete that, you can see that it's searching using Google, the Google search engine.

So if I type in pictures of a red panda again, you can see here that this is the Google search with slightly different results.

Now remember that we said that if you're using the address bar, the search engine that is used is the default one for your web browser? So my default one for my web browser is Google.

And remember I'm using it in Google Chrome.

Let's think about your learning for this lesson.

So you've completed a web search to find specific information.

You have refined a web search by using more keywords, and you've compared results from different search engines.

Thank you and good effort.

It would be great if you could share your work.

Ask a parent or guardian permission.

Maybe take a picture, take a photograph of what you've done and share it on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter.

Making sure that you tag @OakNational and #LearnwithOak.

I'd really like to see the work that you've done today.