"Knowing how to research and find the information you seek is an important skill. Fortunately, the Internet is a vast font of knowledge. The trick is in using the right tools. Here are a few that can aid learners in their search for answers."
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Tech tools that assist all students to be independent learners & teachers to become better teachers
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Beth Dichter
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"InstaGrok is an intelligent visual search engine and interactive learning tool that collects educational content and displays it in the form of a cloud of related words." Along with multimedia features, there is a visual map; content is displayed in multipe formats (think Universal Design for Learning); and students may choose a level of difficulty. Additional images are available in this post or head over to to InstaGrok at http://www.instagrok.com/. 
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Why do so many students choose Wikipedia when asked to find information on the Internet? I believe the answer is that Wikipedia is like the McDonalds of the Internet, you can always find it and you know what you’re going to get. Check out the 10 free tools, including Google Search Education, Google Custom Search, the Find Tool, a variety of search engines (although I would also include Carrot2 at http://search.carrot2.org/stable/search) and more!
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Millions of students search the Web for learning daily, but finding good educational materials, making sense of the search results, understanding what's important...InstaGrok retrieves educational materials in multiple formats; identifies key concepts and terminology; helps visualize relationships between concepts; displays definitions of terminology; finds expert users on online forums and more...check it out at http://www.instagrok.com/
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Finding great tools for students to use is often overwhelming. This post shares six specific tools as well as two lists from EdShelf. The six tools shown also include a video overview. They are:
* InstaGrok
* Colwiz
* SweetSearch
* DocsTeach
* Boolify
* Scrible
One list from EdShelf includes 18 tools and the other includes 12 tools. The range of tools is applicable for students from elementary school though high school and college.