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Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your students become critical thinkers and independent learners.
Must-read article by Richard Byrne about what to know when teaching search skills to students. Parents often question when I teach this unit, but kids aren't the innate searchers we think they are, and learning how to search efficiently is a CRITICAL skill!
Wolfram|Alpha is a free online computational knowledge engine that generates answers to questions in real time by doing computations on its own vast internal knowledge base. Our long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. This can be valuable to educators in many ways.
So Cool! Check out "A Google A Day" for an interesting fact to Google and research each day! Would be great for a warm-up each day for students!
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A computational search engine. For example, put in your hometown and it compiles data on the local time, weather, location, latitute/longitude, etc.
Google engineer Matt Cutts explains what happens when you press the Search button on Google...
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