Image Conscious: how pre-teens search the web

How pre-teens search the web Image Conscious "I used a picture and then I read about the picture and then I described the picture" Ewan (aged 12) What was the most important change in castle-building in the Middle Ages? Websites we used Are words barriers to search? http://www.spicynodes.org/a/0b6808ad168443f4e218e1871db03f22 https://s3.amazonaws.com/easel.ly/all_easels/29544/Searching_the_Internet/image.jpg http://bagtheweb.com/b/FFJLhF "It is time to consider the possibility that literacy can be achieved through images as well as texts and numbers" James Elkins When teaching search skills I plan to concentrate on showing students how to browse better (rather than keyword better), how to decode images and how to navigate multimedia I need to consider the barriers to searching and whether I should continue with an integrated library catalogue or not? I want to ensure I use Infographics and images in blog posts and other library resources "It is critical students...have the ability to locate, manage, interpret and use images to communicate ideas and passion" Kimberly Cofino and David Jakes Student by Charles Price 2010 Nicola McNee Kingswood School, Bath @nicolamcnee #ili2012 "Multiple literacies, including digital, visual, textual and technological, have now joined information literacy as crucial skills for this century" AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner