Teaching Kids to Search Well and Evaluate What They Find
My post, Back-to-School Research Tip: Help Your Child Use Curated Online Databases, is posted over at the Platform for Good website. It describes strategies that parents and educators can use to help...
View ArticleGoogle Dashboard: A Connected-World Teaching Tool for All Ages
If you use Google, take a few minutes to check out the Google Dashboard and look over a detailed digital footprint snapshot of your Google activities. Learning about digital footprints is an important...
View ArticleKeywords Matter: Children Must Know How to Use Them
Maya Bery, a technology/media colleague, who also happens to be a former student, shared this delightful description about two 21st Century children searching for answers. Two third graders came in...
View ArticleYour News, My News – We Don’t Get the Same Views
According to a video shared by the DuckDuckGo website, when we search for information on Google each of us can get slightly different, or sometimes enormously different results – even if we use the...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Online Newspaper Searches
It’s Monday morning and over breakfast I’ve found two articles that I want to read more closely, perhaps to share on my blogs — one in the New York Times and the other in the Washington Post. When I...
View ArticleGoogle Images Now Come With Ads!
We will now see advertisements on many of our Google Image searches. In a March 5, 2019 blog post, Google announced a new advertising promotion that will appear in Google Image searches. According to a...
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