For this module activity, I chose to compare student-friendly search engines Kidtopia and Kiddle to find out information about the concept of sustainability. Kidtopia’s top four results were ads, which did take up the entirety of the screen; therefore, scrolling was required to get to the first non-ad hit. The ads were outlined in a […]
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Discussion Forum Module 3.1 – Common Search Engine: Google vs. Dogpile
For this module activity, I chose to compare Google and Dogpile to find out information about the concept of sustainability. The page display of results from Google were clean and simple. The top chunk of information was a definition of the concept, followed by a list of potential questions to further hone results. This was […]
The Tool is Directing the User…
O’Connell et al. states that “the tool is directing the user” where built-in artificial intelligence (AI) is an embedded technology where “users don’t have to think about how to use it [the technology tool]”. She provides Google as an example of a platform which uses this AI feature, which limits search options based on a […]