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Part Three in the series Five Things Today's Digital Generation Cannot Do explores the first mistake many searchers make after they click the search button: failing to recognize relevant information in what they read.

Part Four of the Five Things series examines difficulties students have recognizing relevant results and finding better keywords, both essential skills in homing in on information.

Dan Balzer finds a teachable moment for building word skills and how this relates to better searching.

In this interview we explore the connection between reading online and comprehension.

In this interview we discuss practical ways to teach students how to find better keywords.

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A facilitator's guide for using Gold Rush games to help students scan more efficiently.

Action Zone User's Guide to Snowsport Challenges

These three interactive challenges span the search process from forming the initial query to finding better keywords in snippets.

One of the most effective ways to pick up valuable search techniques is to see them in action.

Reading hypertext skillfully is compared to navigating hyperlinks.

This adapted Middle School Web Quest illustrates how students may be guided to find better keywords as they search.

This Guide explains how to use the Snippet Sleuth tutorial games with students.

A quick guide to improving keyword selection based on specificity of meaning.

How to use Google's Search History, including creating bookmarks and searching the history.

Ways to think about relevance while searching and what relevance means to a search engine.

A guide to solve common problems with Web page usability.

Try these popular MicroModules:

• Synonyms
• Hyper- and Hypo- Nyms
• Nyms: How Lesser Known Nyms Help You Improve a Search
• Search Box Strategy

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Temperature Challenge Milk from what breed of cow tends to freeze first as the temperature drops? (timed: 10 minutes)

Four interactive tutorial games that provide graded scanning challenges with snippets and paragraphs. Timed and untimed versions are available; reading levels grades 5 through 12.

Identifying better keywords in two snippets.

An advanced level game to build optimal queries based on characteristics of words (specificity, redundancy, numeracy, frequency of occurrence).

Using a thesaurus or dictionary to find better search words.

Identifying better keywords in two snippets.

This game tests for understanding of word meanings in context, i.e., which words are more general or more specific.

This game provides practice reading snippets to find keywords that aid in Homing In.

This game provides practice reading snippets to find keywords that aid in Homing In.

This game provides practice reading snippets to find keywords that aid in Homing In.

A video tutorial about the Find Command.

Four interactive video tutorials to help improve reading on the Web.

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Instructions and forms for using search logs to reflect on and improve the search process.

This assessment is aimed at the ability to recognize relevant information in snippets obtained from Google Blog Search, Technorati and Blogpulse.

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