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Google Offers Up Help for Teachers

by Scott Clark on August 13, 2009

computerclassAt least three years ago I wrote online that, in addition to Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, students should be taught basic search syntax so they could know how to exclude frustrating garbage and irrelevant results.   As I spent more time watching my kids  it was clear that many kids had a hard time getting past Wikipedia when researching their homework.   Now even non-SEO kids will have some help as Google is providing teachers with a rich set of Classroom Lessons for Search Engines to help.

The lessons include

  • Basics, Search 101
  • How to choose which links to follow
  • How to tell if a site has authority
  • Organizing your approach to searching
  • Search Operators and Syntax (Yes!)
  • Advanced Search Options on Google
  • Language Tools on Google
  • Experimental Google features

I would like to see teachers find time early in the school year to help our kids become better searchers, with the ability to discriminate and eliminate the noise.

Photo: Erica Blasdel

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