EdTech Search Strategies
EdTech Search StrategiesEdTech Search Strategies - Notes
Boolean search
A Boolean search is a type of search where you can use special words or symbols, called Boolean operators, to limit, widen, or define your search options when using a database or search engine 1. Some common Boolean operators are AND, OR, NOT, and quotation marks.
A Boolean search can be used to find academic articles by combining keywords and phrases that are relevant to your research topic. For example, if you are looking for articles about the effects of climate change on agriculture, you can use a Boolean search like this:
“climate change” AND agriculture
This will return results that contain the exact phrase “climate change” and the word agriculture. You can also use parentheses to group terms and control the order of the search. For example:
(“climate change” OR “global warming”) AND (agriculture OR farming)
This will return results that contain either “climate change” or “global warming”, and either agriculture or farming.
A Boolean search can help you to find more relevant and specific results for your research, and to exclude irrelevant or unwanted results. You can use Boolean operators in various databases and search engines, such as Google Scholar 2, Academia.edu3, and Oxford Academic4.
DuckDuckGo !Bangs 🦆
DuckDuckGo !Bangs Duckduckgo bangs are shortcuts that allow you to search directly on other websites from Duckduckgo 1. You can use them by typing an exclamation point (!) followed by a keyword that represents the website you want to search. For example, if you want to search for “Boolean search” on Wikipedia, you can type !w Boolean search in Duckduckgo and it will take you to the Wikipedia page for Boolean search.
You can use duckduckgo bangs to save time and access different sources of information quickly. There are thousands of bangs available for various websites and categories, such as news, shopping, social media, education, and more 2. You can also suggest new bangs or update existing ones 3.
UAA Digital Library
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Tools and methods for searching the literature
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The snowball method
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Google Scholar and AI
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Misc
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Recommended Mobil Apps If you have space on your phone, I would recommend that you install the following apps:
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Microsoft Teams