11

Empowerment
Technology
Quarter 1 – Module 3
Contextualized Online Search and Research Skills

Development Team of the Module

Writer: Jessa P. Manalang

Editor: Rolylyn H. Dado
Reviewer: Ann Marjorie V. Pico
Illustrator: Jayson A. Gatbonton
Layout Artist: Froilan G. Isip

Management Team Zenia G. Mostoles EdD, CESO V, SDS

Leonardo C. Canlas EdD CESE, ASDS
Rowena T. Quiambao CESE, ASDS
Celia R. Lacanlale PhD, CID Chief
Arceli S. Lopez PhD, SGOD Chief
June D. Cunanan EPS- English
Ruby M. Jimenez PhD, EPS-LRMDS

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Introductory Message
For the Facilitator:
Welcome to the Empowerment Technology with Grade Level 11 Alternative Delivery
Mode (ADM) Module on Contextualized Online Search and Research Skills.
This module was collaboratively designed, developed and reviewed by educators from
public institutions to assist you, the teacher or facilitator in helping the learners meet the
standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum while overcoming their personal, social, and
economic constraints in schooling.
This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this also aims to help
learners acquire the needed 21st century skills while taking into consideration their
needs and circumstances.
As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this module. You
also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to manage their
own learning. Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and assist the learners as
they do the tasks included in the module.
For the Learner:

Welcome to the Empowerment Technology with Grade Level 11 Alternative Delivery

Mode (ADM) Module on Contextualized Online Search and Research Skills.

Internet researching is faster than other medium. Knowledge can be created and
disseminated in all forms and formats. Empowerment technology teaches us to use
information and media content in an ethical, efficient and effective manner. But learning
doesn’t belong only in classrooms: learning new things is something that we all do,
everywhere and throughout our lives. This lesson deals with use the internet as a tool
for credible research and information gathering to best achieve specific class objectives
or address situational challenges. This everyday learning continue to discover new
things about our worlds through the newspapers we read, the TV we watch, and in our
interactions with others in the workplace and at home. As a learner, you need to think
about it carefully and understands what it is and why and how it happens and you need
to understand why different kinds learning are important in different context. The learner
can be various consumers and creators of media, and it’s easier than ever for them to
find and share digital content online. In this module aims to develop your understanding
of learning to assist you to be able to analyze learning, and in so doing to reflect on
what you can do to improve it.

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful opportunities for
guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You will be enabled to
process the contents of the learning resource while being an active learner.
 What I Need to Know

This module is written and uses the internet as a tool for credible research and information
gathering to best achieves specific class objectives or address situational challenges to make
learning easier yet challenging to the learner to become creative, resourceful and independent.
In this module aims to enhance your competence and skills serves as a motivation tool to
improve yourself and provide learning experiences that will add data to your knowledge. It
presents several sources of information and tackles the contextualized online search and
research skills.

For the learner

We know that application of the use the internet as a tool for credible research and information
gathering to best achieve specific class objectives or address situational challenges allows us to
gain a deeper understanding and familiarize them on how the presentation of data is important
in relaying facts to others. When contextualized online search and research skills are used in an
effective way to motivate the student’s interests in learning process and appreciative in
consuming the facts presented to them.

At the end of this module, you are expected to:

1. define online research;

2. identify the importance of online search and research skills; and
3. enumerate the advantage and disadvantage of online search.

What I Know

Read and answer the following questions. Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your
answers on a separate sheet of paper.

1. When accessing the internet, which of these steps is the most essential?
A. Downloading material to be referenced
B. Nothing the access dates
C. Recording the full URL
D. They are all equally important
2. Which of the following is not a problem associated with using websites as sources of data?
A. It is difficult to find any websites about most topics in business research.
B. New websites are constantly appearing while others are disappearing.
C. The sample of websites is only as good as the keywords used to search for them.
D. The 'webspeak' is complex.
3. What is distinctive about asynchronous online communication?
A. It cannot be conducted by email
B. It cannot take place on the World Wide Web.
C. It occurs in real time, with participants responding to questions immediately.
D. The interviewer and their respondents write at different times.
4. An advantage of conducting an interview via Skype rather than face-to-face is that:
A. Informants have more time to give detailed, considered responses.
B. It saves time and money as no travelling is involved.
C. There is no need to transcribe the data.
D. All of the above.
5. Which of the following is not a disadvantage of conducting focus groups online?
A. It is easier for people exit the focus group online.
B. It is more difficult to establish rapport without non-verbal cues.
C. Normally shy participants may find it easier to "speak" in this setting.
D. Those who are fastest at typing may dominate the discussions.

Use the Internet as a tool for credible

Lesson
research and information gathering to
3 best achieve specific class objectives or
address situational challenges.
Internet has the widest coverage about much information that circulates the web world.
It is the use of World Wide Web or internet for obtaining information. Online search is
the process of interactively searching for and retrieving searching requested information
via computer from databases that are online and flexible in every subject or topic;
limited in some areas or if it has a low availability of connection. Research sometimes
just means finding out information about a topic and is the easiest way to use when you
do your assignment it can make your assignment done easily.

What’s In

On a separate sheet of paper, write True if the statement is correct. False if the statement is
incorrect.

1. Research is the easiest way to use when you do your assignment it can make your
assignment done easily.
2. Online is flexible in every subject or topic.
3. Research skills is the process of interactively searching for and retrieving searching
requested information via computer from databases that are online
4. Internet is the use of World Wide Web or internet for obtaining information.
5. Research has the widest coverage about much information that circulates the web world.

What’s New

Contextualize, meaning to study and review. Contextual online research is a form of optimizing
web based search results based on context provided. For the best result of online researching
it’s important to get to know the steps and skills on fetching and gathering data. In undergoing
online learning we might want to consider the rules and regulations provided by the source
owners. Online search is interactive searches became possible in the 1980s with the advent of
faster databases and smart terminals. The advantages of online research are the reduced cost
of conducting research and ability to obtain a large sample, which increases statistical power
while the disadvantages are lack of accreditation and low quality and some of the materials on
the internet have not been evaluated by experts.

Research skill needs and requirements vary with each assignment, project or paper. The
important aspects of research are the working with data will provide resources on the use of
statistics and other numerical skills in research and research design covers the key issues in
developing a successful research project. In research skills you need to familiarize your topic or
subject, be aware of your limits, make a strategy, develop high quality inquiries, know
alternative links and sources and search in books/ journals/ magazines for past reviews and
knowledge and basis. Boolean Operators are simple words (AND, OR, NOT or AND NOT) used
as conjunctions to combine or exclude keywords in a search, resulting in more focused and
productive results.

What is It

Discussion of Activity 1
The student will create a concept map on a sheet of bond paper and list all the words they think
related with Internet.

Answer the following questions below which are related to the use of internet as a tool for
credible research and information gathering to best achieve specific class objectives or address
situational challenges. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.

Questions:
1. What did you observe
about the activity?
2. Does internet make the
world go around? Why?
3. How important is it in
INTERNET our daily lives?

What’s More

Independent Activity 1
Take a look at these search engines carefully.
Which of the three search engines catch your attention or it looks familiar? Answer the following
questions regarding your chosen search engines and write on your separate sheet of paper.

1. Which search engines would be the best if you were looking for something much
unknown?
2. Which search engine seemed to display the result fastest?

Independent Assessment 1
As a learner, answer the following questions with regards to the search engines you have seen
in Independent Activity No1.
1. How can you legally use the search engines?
2. What is the importance of search engines?
3. Who are the audience of the search engines you have seen?
4. Which search engines you most liked to use?
5. Which search engines would be the best for the students? Why?

Independent Activity 2
The student choose any of the following sectors/communities as education, tourism, business,
fisher folk, farmers, barangay level, student council, news company. Answer the graphic
organizer on a sheet of bond paper, need to use key words only.

Uses of
Internet

Issues or
Benefits
Challenges

Independent Assessment 2
In the Independent Activity 2 that you did previously, what are the disadvantages and
advantages of Internet regarding to your chosen sector/ community? Write your answer on the
table below.

Advantages Disadvantages
1. 1.

2. 2.

3. 3.

4. 4.

5. 5.
Independent Activity 3
Create a flow chart to show how you can compare of different types of search engines.

Follow the format below in comparing search engines. Use a bond paper to do this.

Symbol Name of search Purpose Cost: Best used for:

engine (expensive,
free…)

Independent Assessment 3
In the Independent Activity 3, answer the following questions. Explain it in 1 to 2 sentences.

Questions:

1. What else would you like to know about different types of search engines?
2. Which of these have been most helpful to develop your understanding in online research
and research skills?
3. What search engines resources or activities have you used in your technology classes?

Write your thoughts and questions on a sheet of paper.

What I Have Learned

A Venn diagram helps you compare two (2) things. In the outer circles on the online search,
write things what does it has and in the research skills when should you use it. In the center
circle, write things are alike.

Complete the Venn diagram below and write your answer on a short bond paper.
 How they are related?
What does it When should I
have? use it?

Online search Research skills

What I Can Do

The following words and terms are used in connection use the internet as a tool for credible
research and information gathering to best achieve specific class objectives or address
situational challenges. Put a ( ) check that corresponds for any words that you have heard of
and if you can, explain what the particular word or term means.
Follow the format below in comparing search engines. Use a bond paper to do this.

Haven’t heard of this Heard of this I think I know what this means (write
briefly what you think this means)
Google
Bing
Yahoo
Baidu
Yandex
Ask.com
DuckDuckGo

Assessment

Read and answer the following questions. Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your
answers on a separate sheet of paper.

1. What is the widest coverage about much information that circulates the web world?
A. Application
B. Internet
C. Wi-Fi
D. Zoom
2. What are simple words (AND, OR, NOT or AND NOT) used as conjunctions to combine or
exclude keywords in a search, resulting in more focused and productive results?
A. Boolean operator
B. Internet
C. Online research
D. Research skills
3. Which among the following is the easiest way to use when you do your assignment it can
make your assignment done easily?
A. Application
B. Boolean operator
C. Research skills
D. Zoom
4. What is a form of optimizing web based search results based on context provided?
A. Boolean online research
B. Contextual online research
C. Textual online research
D. Visual online research
5. What are the interactive searches became possible in the 1980s with the advent of faster
databases and smart terminals?
A. Boolean operator
B. Internet
C. Online research
D. Research skills

Additional Activities

On a short bond paper, write an essay about the role of use the internet as a tool for credible
research and information gathering to best achieve specific class objectives or address
situational challenges in the times of pandemic/ COVID-19.
 Support Team. Media and Information Literacy
1. Commission on Higher Education. K to 12 Transition Program Management Unit – Senior High School
References
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