Unit 6- Search Engines
The upcoming school year is quickly approaching. As I start thinking about technology lessons I want to target in the library this year, search engines come to mind. It is so important to instruct students on how to use search engines. Of course, everyone automatically turns to Google, but did you know that there are kid-friendly search engines out there? For my last assignment in my technology class, I had the opportunity to look into all kinds of search engines. Since I am always thinking of websites and tools to share with teachers and students, one search engine that I looked into is KidRex ( http://www.kidrex.org/ ). KidRex is good to have students use because: it is a fun and safe place to search for children the site is Powered by Google Custom Search and Google SafeSearch- these searches screen sites for inappropriate content and deletes it from the child's search results inappropriate websites and keywords are saved on the KidRex database there is a Web page