Search Engines for Students
Dr. Alice Christie is an educator with over forty years of experience. She received her PhD in Educational Technology and Language and Literacy in 1995 from Arizona State University. Recently she retired from the College of Teacher Education and Leadership at Arizona State University. Before this she taught school for k-12. Now she tours the country doing educational workshops.
I particularly enjoyed the search engines for kids section it was particularly valuable. The internet is such a broad avenue that knowing which sites are useful and the ones that are not can be difficult and time consuming. What Dr. Christie has done is provided a list of kid friendly sites with a brief description of what is found on them. This is wonderful for other teachers to be able to locate the information they need quickly without having to sift through the junk sites.
Some of the sites she has listed is not only for classroom use but, also home use to help students with homework or just quiz on topics they are having trouble catching on to. I have saved this site to my favorites so I can easily reference it in the future. She has listed each site that she recommends is specific categories some are for students only others are for educators.
I hope everyone will take the time and really explore Dr.Christie’s site she has some great information that actually can be very useful in a classroom environment. I know exactly where to look now for research or just homework help for my students and I feel comfortable with these sites will actually enrich their learning experience as well as teach the internet navigation.
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