Kids and Web Searching

Brian writes \”At the 6th Conference on Human Factors and the Web last week, some researchers delivered a paper called, \”When Kids Use the Web: A Naturalistic Comparison of Children\’s Navigation Behavior and Subjective Preferences on Two WWW Sites.\”


Although the study used a small group of subjects (eight 12yo\’s and eight 16yo\’s) and was limited to fact-finding activities on only two websites, it does seem like it may have some useful information for librarians who either design the youth services areas of their institutions\’ sites or train tweens and teens to do research on the Web.
Read more at :
pantos.org
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