Wikipedia has a page for almost everything and my search for curious provided a link to their page titled curiosity related to my search but not quite the same. In some cases the connection is obvious and possibly related to text in the image, in other cases the link is less apparent and can be an excellent starting point for discussion and analysis that a dictionary definition by the demands of its purpose will not foster. Refining the results in each case to ‘Images’ or ‘Videos’ will produce different but in each case interesting and informative results even if many of the images are centred on a monkey named George.īeing able to find images relevant to a dictionary search offers an opportunity for a class to apply ‘Making Thinking Visible’ strategies to a word study as students analyse what aspect of the selected word is depicted in the images presented by their search engine. Other searches worth trying include 'books with curious in title’ and ‘music with curious in title’. Adding selected terms to a Google or Bing search will refine the results provided, try searching for ‘curious synonyms’, ‘curious antonyms’, ‘curious quotes’ or 'curious etymology’. Some include translations to other languages, all are ad supported and offer a search option for looking within their service. Each provides detailed results with examples of the word in use and links to synonyms and an option to have the word read. Microsoft’s ‘Bing’ search engine provides similar results to Google with the same sentence about the curious whereabouts of our bride and groom.Īdding the word ‘definition’ to my search provides more focused results including links to many online dictionaries including Oxford, Merriam-Webster, MacMillian and Collins. As I searched for the word alone the results further down the page include links not entirely relevant to a dictionary inquiry such as a link to a company called Curious Films and. I am also provided with a set of links to synonyms allowing me to expand the scope of my search or to check definitions of these words. The most obvious difference is that online I am provided with the option to have the word read to me, useful if I am unsure of the pronunciation. Google’s results are similar in some respects to Oxford’s but a few differences and advantages are immediately apparent. Not a bad start and it will be this that I compare alternative sources to, the next step was to see the result gained from a Google search for just the word ‘curious’ Middle English: from Old French curios, from Latin curiosus ‘careful’, from cura ‘care’. curiously adverb curiously, I find snooker riveting strange unusual: a curious sensation overwhelmed her. eager to know or learn something: I began to be curious about the whereabouts of the bride and groom | she was curious to know what had happened.Ģ. Here is what the Oxford Dictionary of English provided:ġ. I started by turning to the dictionary I had available in my classroom. ![]() Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.’ I wanted to understand the why of using a dictionary, less so the how. Still it is worth asking ‘are we missing something by abandoning dictionaries?'įor my comparison I picked on the word ‘curious’ as in this quote from the artist Man Ray 'Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. This left us with a strong feeling that asking our digitally native students to use a device that even their teachers had abandoned was misguided. In each case when we wanted to check a spelling or definition we went online. If we were not teachers teaching students to use dictionaries we would have no need for one. None used dictionaries when they wanted to know more about a word. The initial discussion amongst a small group of teachers did not bode well for traditional dictionaries. ![]() I was curious as to which approach would produce the most meaningful results and decided to explore the resources available online and compare these with a traditional dictionary and app based dictionaries. The questions is does this negate the need for a dictionary or is there still a compelling case to develop dictionary skills. ![]() Like many schools we have implemented a 1:1 BYOD programme that means every child has full time access to the internet. ![]() With the annual review of what books we will require students to use in the following year came a discussion of the merits of a dictionary as part of this list.
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