scholarly journals How Nations seek answers online and what it might suggest about global learning cultures/attitudes

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Babatunde Okunoye
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Learning ◽  
Search Terms ◽  
First Choice ◽  
The World ◽  
Basic Facts ◽  
Search For Information

Search engines have become essential tools of information seeking. This has facilitated their use as important educational tools. The search for information has moved in recent years from paper-based sources to electronic sources, particularly online sources. Search engines are for millions around the world, the first page they encounter online and first choice in seeking information about what we seek to know and what we seek to learn to do. This study tracks the volume of searches on the search phrases “how to” (revealing what we seek to learn to do) and “what is” (revealing what we seek to know) globally between the years 2004-2020 using Google Trends. Both search phrases are typically used in search terms people use to ask questions online and represent some of the most common search phrases online. For example, it had been estimated that search engine queries with the phrase “How to” represented about 3% of all queries in the United States – the most searched phrase. Both search phrases represent different mindsets. ‘’How to’’ queries might point to an inclination towards problem solving, while ‘’what is’’ queries suggest an inclination to acquire basic facts. This study reveals that across the world, people searched very much the same way with greater search volumes for ‘’how to’’ searches relative to ‘’what is’’ queries, or in very few cases equal search volumes for the two search terms. Ethiopia, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia and South Sudan were exceptions, reporting greater ‘’what is’’ searches relative to ‘’how to’’ searches. This study investigates if this deviation from the global trend of greater search interest in ‘’how to’’ problem solving queries in these countries has roots in the educational cultures or psychology in these nations, or if this observed trend is just statistical noise

Camping

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 296-297
Author(s):  
Teodora Cox ◽  
Samantha Nickerson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
The United States ◽  
The World ◽  
Family Activity ◽  
Set Up

Camping is a popular family activity in the United States and around the world. From camping prep to set up and favorite activities in the water or around the fire, recollections of family camping trips are etched in the memories of many students and grown up alike. Revisit some of these favorites or get ideas for new memories with the myriad problems in this collection. Math by the Month features collections of short activities focused on a monthly theme. These articles aim for an inquiry or problem-solving orientation that includes four activities each for grade bands K–2, 3–4, and 5–6.

The impact of cancer information online on cancer fatalism: education and eHealth literacy as moderators

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 543-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jae Eun Chung ◽  
Chul-Joo Lee
Keyword(s):  
Information Seeking ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
The United States ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Cancer Information ◽  
Cancer Fatalism ◽  
Ehealth Literacy ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Search For Information ◽  
The Impact

Abstract One critical yet understudied concept associated with cancer information is cancer fatalism, i.e. deterministic thoughts about the cause of cancer, the inability to prevent it and the unavoidability of death upon diagnosis. The aim of this study is to understand how information seeking about cancer online influences cancer fatalism and whether and to what extent education and eHealth literacy moderate the relationship between them. Findings from an online survey of a nationally representative sample in the United States (N = 578) showed differential impacts of using the internet to search for information about cancer among the more and the less educated. For the less educated, more exposure to information about cancer via medical and health websites led to an increased level of cancer fatalism, whereas among the more educated, greater exposure lowered cancer fatalism. These differences were explained by the fact that the more educated were equipped with a higher level of eHealth literacy skills than the less educated. Findings show that only when one has necessary skills to apply digital resources can those resources help mitigate cancer fatalism. We suggest the need to enhance eHealth literacy skills among the less educated to reduce cancer fatalism.

Searching Bioinformatics Information Strategies for Effective Use of Search Engine

2018 ◽  
pp. 742-748
Author(s):  
Viveka Vardhan Jumpala
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information Strategies ◽  
The World ◽  
Search For Information ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
The Web

The Internet, which is an information super high way, has practically compressed the world into a cyber colony through various networks and other Internets. The development of the Internet and the emergence of the World Wide Web (WWW) as common vehicle for communication and instantaneous access to search engines and databases. Search Engine is designed to facilitate search for information on the WWW. Search Engines are essentially the tools that help in finding required information on the web quickly in an organized manner. Different search engines do the same job in different ways thus giving different results for the same query. Search Strategies are the new trend on the Web.

scholarly journals Global Trends in Phytohormone Research: Google Trends Analysis Revealed African Countries Have Higher Demand for Phytohormone Information

Plants ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1248
Author(s):  
Tapan Kumar Mohanta ◽  
Yugal Kishore Mohanta ◽  
Dhananjay Yadav ◽  
Abeer Hashem ◽  
Elsayed Fathi Abd_Allah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Salicylic Acid ◽  
Abscisic Acid ◽  
Jasmonic Acid ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The United States ◽  
Google Trends ◽  
Search Terms ◽  
The World

The lines of research conducted within a country often reflect its focus on current and future economic needs. Analyzing “search” trends on the internet can provide important insight into predicting the direction of a country in regards to agriculture, health, economy, and other areas. ‘Google Trends’ collects data on search terms from different countries, and this information can be used to better understand sentiments in different countries and regions. Agricultural output is responsible for feeding the world and there is a continuous quest to find ways to make agriculture more productive, safe, and reliable. The application of phytohormones has been used in agriculture world-wide for many years to improve crop production and continues to be an active area of research for the application in plants. Therefore, in the current study, we searched ‘Google Trends’ using the phytohormone search terms, abscisic acid, auxins, brassinosteroids, cytokinin, ethylene, gibberellins, jasmonic acid, salicylic acid, and strigolactones. The results indicated that the African country Zambia had the greatest number of queries on auxin research, and Kenya had the most queries in cytokinin and gibberellin research world-wide. For other phytohormones, India had the greatest number of queries for abscisic acid and South Korea had the greatest number of ethylene and jasmonic acid search world-wide. Queries on salicylic acid have been continuously increasing while the least number of queries were related to strigolactones. Only India and United States of America had significant numbers of queries on all nine phytohormones while queries on one or more phytohormones were absent in other countries. India is one of the top five crop-producing countries in the world for apples, millet, orange, potato, pulses, rice, sugarcane, tea, and wheat. Similarly, the United States of America is one of the top five crop-producing countries of the world for apples, grapes, maze, orange, potato, sorghum, sugarcane, and wheat. These might be the most possible factors for the search queries found for all the nine phytohormones in India and the United States of America.

scholarly journals Availability Of Literature On Engineering Ethics In The Internet

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusof Ismail, Suhaimi Mhd Sarif
Keyword(s):  
Search Engines ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Engineering Ethics ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Search Term ◽  
Internet Search ◽  
Search Terms ◽  
Search For Information ◽  
And Training

Internet is becoming a popular tool among career-oriented people. Among professionals, some of the engineers use the Internet in their work to search for information. The study is carried out to ascertain comparative availability of the materials on ethics and engineers in four top Internet search engines (ISE’s). Four ISE’s were accessed on 2 February 2011, from 2.21 p.m. to 4.21 p.m. [Gombak Time] using a combination of selected search terms: education, engineer, engineering, ethics, Islam, professional, research, and training. The search results or hits produced by the selected ISE’s were analyzed using a specially created instrument/format. The study computes relative ratios of the coverage of selected terms in relation to the number of hits for selected terms within each ISE. The ratios are obtained by dividing the hits for a search term or combination into the total hits within each ISE. The results of the analysis reveal that the ISE’s contain the highest frequency of materials on engineers and ethics. The findings suggest to engineering students and practitioners of varying capabilities among the ISE’s used in the study to learn about engineering ethics. Limitations of the study and suggestions for further research are included in the study.   ABSTRAK: Internet menjadi alat yang popular di kalangan staf yang berorientasikan kerjaya. Di kalangan profesional, para jurutera menggunakan Internet untuk mencari maklumat dalam kerja-kerja mereka. Kajian ini dijalankan untuk menentukan ketersediaan perbandingan bahan-bahan mengenai etika dan jurutera dalam empat enjin carian Internet (ISE) teratas. Beberapa ISE dicapai pada 2 Februari 2011, di antara 2.21 petang sehingga 4.21 petang [waktu Gombak] menggunakan gabungan terma carian yang dipilih: pendidikan, jurutera, kejuruteraan, etika, Islam, profesional, penyelidikan, dan latihan. Keputusan carian atau ‘hits’ yang dihasilkan oleh ISE terpilih telah dianalisis dengan menggunakan instrumen/format yang direka khas. Kajian itu mengira nisbah relatif liputan terma-terma terpilih tersebut dengan jumlah ‘hits’ bagi kesemua terma bagi setiap ISE. Nisbah diperolehi dengan membahagikan ‘hits’ bagi istilah carian atau gabungan istilah dengan jumlah ‘hits’ dalam setiap ISE. Keputusan analisis menunjukkan ISE yang mengandungi kekerapan tertinggi bahan-bahan berkaitan dengan jurutera dan etika. Hasil kajian menyarankan kepada pelajar-pelajar dan pengamal kejuruteraan bahawa wujud keupayaan yang berbeza-beza di kalangan ISE berhubung dengan potensi bahan-bahan berkaitan etika kejuruteraan. Batasan kajian dan cadangan untuk penyelidikan selanjutnya dimasukkan dalam kajian ini.  Keywords-engineering ethics; internet search engines; literature; training and development

Policies for Online Search

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill D. Herman
Keyword(s):  
Search Engines ◽  
The United States ◽  
Contract Law ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Online Search ◽  
The Public ◽  
Search Results ◽  
Affect Expression ◽  
The World ◽  
Secondary Liability

The volume of information on the Internet is incomprehensible and growing exponentially. With such a vast ocean of information available, search engines have become an indispensible tool for virtually all users. Yet much of what is available online is potentially objectionable, controversial, or harmful. This leaves search engines in a potentially precarious position, simultaneously wanting to maximize the usefulness of results for end users while also minimizing political, regulatory, civil, and even criminal difficulties in the jurisdictions where they operate. Conversely, the substantial logistical and legal obstacles to regulating Internet content also leave policymakers in an unenviable position, and content that the public or policymakers may well want regulated—even that which is patently illegal—can remain virtually impossible to stamp out. The policies that may affect online search are incredibly varied, including contract law, laws that affect expression and media producers more generally, copyright, fraud, privacy, and antitrust. For the most part, the law that applies was developed in and will still apply to offline contexts as well. Internet search is still an area filled with its own vexing policy questions. In many cases, these are questions of secondary liability—addressing whether the search provider is liable for search results that link to websites that are beyond their control. In other areas, though, the behavior of search providers will endure specific scrutiny. While many of these questions could be or actually are asked in countries around the world, this article focuses primarily on the legal regimes in the United States and the European Union.

Searching Bioinformatics Information Strategies for Effective Use of Search Engine

2017 ◽  
pp. 169-176
Author(s):  
Viveka Vardhan Jumpala
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information Strategies ◽  
The World ◽  
Search For Information ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
The Web

The Internet, which is an information super high way, has practically compressed the world into a cyber colony through various networks and other Internets. The development of the Internet and the emergence of the World Wide Web (WWW) as common vehicle for communication and instantaneous access to search engines and databases. Search Engine is designed to facilitate search for information on the WWW. Search Engines are essentially the tools that help in finding required information on the web quickly in an organized manner. Different search engines do the same job in different ways thus giving different results for the same query. Search Strategies are the new trend on the Web.

scholarly journals When the City is Your Classroom

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-194
Author(s):  
Lisa G. Sapolis ◽  
Milla C. Riggio ◽  
Xiangming Chen
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

As one of the few small liberal arts colleges in a city, Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, has developed a simple educational creed: Life and learning are inseparable. The “real world” is not something you brace yourself to enter at the end of your education.  That world is with you -- politically, economically, socially, culturally -- even as you prepare to take the responsibility for running it. There is much talk about the need to educate students to become citizens of the world.  Capitalizing on our location in a small exemplary multi-ethnic city, Trinity College gives meaning to this clichéd rhetorical notion.  We train our students for a world that is complex, multi-ethnic, globalized, and cross-culturally connected in a way that no previous society could have imagined. Conceptualizing the learning experience in terms of a set of concentric circles, our education begins with the small inner circle of the campus, expands to the broader surround of Hartford, and then building on the local foundation, extends to study abroad with an urban focus. In this article, two of our study abroad programs exemplify our presumption that the city is your classroom:  the full semester Trinity-in-Trinidad Global Learning Site and Trinity’s faculty-led summer program “Connections: Boomtowns of the Yangtze River” that links an immersion experience in the city of Hartford with four emerging megacities in China. In distinctive and complementary ways, the Trinidad and China programs illustrate how Trinity College through its urban and global educational mission is broadening and deepening the use of the city (in Hartford and globally) to better prepare our students for our urbanized and globalized world. The Trinidad program, centered on urban culture, is more a study in the city, while the China program, revolving around the triangle of urban history, urban sociology, and environmental science, is more overtly a study of the city.  Both programs link the academic domain with experiential learning. Recognizing that the modern city is “no longer local” (Orum and Chen, p. 55), we believe that urban, global experience is the best way to give students insights into their own home cities, whether these are in the United States or elsewhere. We take them abroad not to give them a romantic student overseas junket, but to teach them about themselves in the context of the world in which they must live, over which they must be trained to take control.

An Approach to Solving World Food Problems

1975 ◽  
Vol 38 (7) ◽  
pp. 423-427
Author(s):  
W. F. WEDIN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Food ◽  
State University ◽  
Iowa State University ◽  
The People ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The World

Approaches to solving food problems have often been too specific, both here at home and abroad. In developing countries, chronic food problems have often been attacked with a technology, the adoption-diffusion of which, if nonappropriate to mores and customs of the people, has in the long-run been counter-productive. Through the World Food Institute at Iowa State University, we propose to identify problems, analyze them, bring competencies to bear on solving them, provide a continuing feed-in of educated, competent people geared to a problem-solving, interdisciplinary attack, and study the interrelationships to Iowa and the United States. We propose a continuing thrust from our University utilizing pertinent components of the land-grant mission which permitted problems to be solved in Iowa. Through this outward thrust in the broader, international scale, we hope to improve the nutrition and hope for hunger avoidance of humans elsewhere, and simultaneously thereby to increase our own understanding. We look to the peaceful interchange of food-related knowledge which, in the ultimate, knows neither borders nor political leanings.

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