Assignment 7: New York Times Article

Read the New York Times article Helping Children Find What They Need on the Internet

In at least 3-5 sentences answer the following questions?

1. What problems does the article mention that children run into when they use search engines?

2. What suggestions have been offered for how search engines can improve their product to lessen children’s problems searching?

3. Do you search using keywords or questions? How does the article characterize these two types of searching?

4. Have you tried using images or videos to search? How does the article characterize this type of searching?

5. What advice would you give to Internet search engine developers (like Google or Bing) for how they should improve their product? Do you think any of the improvements mentioned in the article are particularly promising? Why?

• Assignment 7 is due 10-22-13 at 11:59 p.m.
• Unless you are one of the five students who had an excused absence during the previous class, in that case it is due 10-24-13 at 11:59 p.m.