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According to dictionary.com
Goo·gle
[goo-guhl] noun, verb, Goo·gled,Goo·gling.
2. (often lowercase) to search the Internet for information about(a person, topic, etc.):
I don’t want my son’s first and only way of researching anything to be using a search engine. He is five and it is the perfect time for me to set some basic understandings. Last night we were having a debate about how to pronounce something in French. He is an expert now, after only a half year in his French school, and constantly correcting me on my pronunciation. After him insisting it was his way and me insisting it was my way, I jumped up to go get my French verbs book to look up the spelling so I could type it into my iPhone application and get the pronunciation. As I got up, I said, “I’ll just google it.”
I went to my bookshelf and grabbed the 501 French Verbs book. I looked up our word, typed it into my application and got a pronunciation that was a combination of my right and his right. We both listened twice and smiled.
So, we are both wrong.
We practiced the pronunciation and then for the teaching moment, I followed with:
See, when you don’t know something you just google it (as I held up my book).
Him: Um. What does google mean?
Me: It means to look something up.
The seed is planted!
He will know the Dewey Decimal System. He will know how to find a book in the library. He will know what an encyclopedia is. He will have a real dictionary…several…hard copy.
He will know how to use technology. He will know how to survive without it.
Last year my then 13 year old told me he needed to get on the internet to look up his vocabulary words for school but both of our computers were in use. I told him to just use a dictionary. He made this weird face and said, “dictionary?” I said, “Yes Treyce, DICTIONARY.” He still looked confused, then all of a sudden the light came on and he said, “Ohhhhhhh… You mean a HARD copy!”
That is spectacular.
Survival being the most important factor!!!