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Enrichment activities and using Gooru Learning free resources for all students

"Gooru in one-to-one classrooms" In this webinar, we talk to Caryn Mcloughlin, a technology coach at Highland Elementary School in Riverside, California. Car...

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7 Academic Search Engines Not Named Google

7 Academic Search Engines Not Named Google | gpmt | Scoop.it

"When we search, we often first reach for Google–and rightfully so.

But by using Google students and teachers are unwittingly bending to the will of webmasters who are experts at SEO (search engine optimization), which can mean that you find what they want you to find rather than what you really need. So what to do?

Thankfully, there are options for 21st century learners..."


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Beth Dichter's curator insight, June 5, 2013 10:31 PM

To Google or not to Google...that is the question. I fall on the side of teaching students how to use other search engines for a number of reasons including tracking and filter bubbles. This post explores seven academic search engines. 
A short description of each search engine is provided as well as links to each. There is also a link to an earlier post that looked at 100 databases and search indexes.