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Lisa C. Hurst

Inside the School Silicon Valley Thinks Will Save Education | WIRED - 9 views

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    "AUTHOR: ISSIE LAPOWSKY. ISSIE LAPOWSKY DATE OF PUBLICATION: 05.04.15. 05.04.15 TIME OF PUBLICATION: 7:00 AM. 7:00 AM INSIDE THE SCHOOL SILICON VALLEY THINKS WILL SAVE EDUCATION Click to Open Overlay Gallery Students in the youngest class at the Fort Mason AltSchool help their teacher, Jennifer Aguilar, compile a list of what they know and what they want to know about butterflies. CHRISTIE HEMM KLOK/WIRED SO YOU'RE A parent, thinking about sending your 7-year-old to this rogue startup of a school you heard about from your friend's neighbor's sister. It's prospective parent information day, and you make the trek to San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood. You walk up to the second floor of the school, file into a glass-walled conference room overlooking a classroom, and take a seat alongside dozens of other parents who, like you, feel that public schools-with their endless bubble-filled tests, 38-kid classrooms, and antiquated approach to learning-just aren't cutting it. At the same time, you're thinking: this school is kind of weird. On one side of the glass is a cheery little scene, with two teachers leading two different middle school lessons on opposite ends of the room. But on the other side is something altogether unusual: an airy and open office with vaulted ceilings, sunlight streaming onto low-slung couches, and rows of hoodie-wearing employees typing away on their computers while munching on free snacks from the kitchen. And while you can't quite be sure, you think that might be a robot on wheels roaming about. Then there's the guy who's standing at the front of the conference room, the school's founder. Dressed in the San Francisco standard issue t-shirt and jeans, he's unlike any school administrator you've ever met. But the more he talks about how this school uses technology to enhance and individualize education, the more you start to like what he has to say. And so, if you are truly fed up with the school stat
Richard Fanning

100 Useful Niche Search Engines to Focus and Finetune Your Academic Research | College@... - 100 views

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    "Though the general Google site is often touted as the number one search engines online, college students sometimes need more specific tools to help them uncover quality information on the Web that they can use for class projects, research papers, and even job and apartment searches. This list features a huge variety of search engines that can be useful to students, including tools that find photos, sound effects, summer internships, health and medical information, reference guides, and a lot more."
Eric Arbetter

Free Technology for Teachers: Searchy Pants - A Safe Search Engine for Kids - 5 views

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    Searchy Pants is a search engine for students.  In this post, there is also a slide show showing how to create your own search engine within a blog.
Amy Kauth

Sweet Search - 127 views

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      Interesting search engine.
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    SweetSearch is A Search Engine for Students. It searches only credible Web sites approved by Internet research experts.
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    Search engine for students
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    great search engine for all subjects. Lots of primary sources!
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    Educational Search Engine
Ken Fujiuchi

Find OpenCourseWare with OCW Search - 28 views

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    OCW Search is a search engine dedicated to helping you find the best free university courses online. Several universities publish their course materials for free online, under the OpenCourseWare (OCW) initiative. OCW Search is an independent search engine that indexes all these courses so you can find these courses faster.
Roland Gesthuizen

Twitter - a great search engine! « On an e-journey with generation Y - 34 views

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    Use twitter as a search engine. Instead of getting information from eg google  you get people when searching for a topic on twitter. People who are interested in talking about a topic at a certain time. Can find out very interesting and sometimes specific information that is better than a google search. In some particiular circumstances there are commentators or companies who would be worth following.
Virginia Meadow

search-cube - the Visual Search Engine - 2 views

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    searchcube is a graphical search engine that presents search results in a compact, visual format in three dimensions.
Michele Brown

Behold | - 4 views

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    About Behold BeholdTM is a search engine for high-quality Flickr images. It aims to answer your queries based on what is inside the images -- at the pixel level. It offers a completely new way to search for images, using techniques of computer vision. It is different to standard image search engines, such as Flickr or Google, because those search through images using only image tags and filenames. Behold looks for high quality images, so you don't have to sift through hundreds of poorly taken pictures to find a good one. Behold uses both aesthetic and technical quality indicators to find some of the best images available online. Behold draws computational power from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to handle large volumes of images. Features Behold is capable of recognising a number of visual concepts in pictures. You can ask Behold to return images that look like one of these concepts. This new type of search can be flexibly combined with regular text-based search. For example you can ask Behold to return images tagged with the word 'london' that look like pictures of buildings (try it!). You can also filter text-based image search results based on what the images actually look like. Both of these features are demonstrated in these videos. With a newly introduced feature, Behold goes one step further and automatically suggests visual filters after analysing the words in your query. It shows you what your search results would look like if you apply one of these filters, so you save time on finding the right one.
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    Search High Quality Flickr Images.
Roland Gesthuizen

Incompetent Research Skills Curb Users' Problem Solving (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - 95 views

  • In general, we almost never see people use advanced search. And when they do, they typically use it incorrectly — partly because they use it so rarely that they never really learn how it works.
  • or many problems, the actual answer is right there. But the concept that you might have to sometimes go beyond search listings is getting lost
  • any problems, the actual answer is right there. But the concept that you might have to sometimes go beyond search listings is getting lost
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  • Sadly, when one approach is so easy (and works much of the time), users never develop the research skills needed to try or even consider other approaches.
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    "Today, many users are so reliant on search that it's undermining their problem-solving abilities. Ironically, the better search gets, the more dangerous it gets as people increasingly assume that whatever the search engine coughs up must be the answer."
Michael Ashley

100 Search Engines For Academic Research - 10 views

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    A collection of different search engines and a description of what they are good for
Ana Molina

Search Engines for Students - BagTheWeb - 10 views

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    Comprehensive list of serach engines for students. Oolone is a visual search engine like nothing I've seen before.
kris7138

Internet Search Engines - Search Engine Guide Blog - 2 views

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    List of search engines for different topics
Eric G. Young

Find It Friday - ABA's New Search Engine; Westlaw Poised To Release 'Cobalt' ... - 27 views

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    2010 is already proving to be the year of big changes on the legal research front. The first significant development of 2010 is the ABA's new search engine for law reviews and journals. The second is Thomson Reuters Westlaw's anticipated release of an entirely new research platform dubbed "Cobalt."
anonymous

Comprehensive list of Search Engines - The Search Engine List - 132 views

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    A comprehesive list of search engines
Martin Burrett

Search-ebooks.eu - Free ebook search engine - 176 views

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    A good e-book search engine. Search for lots of formats including PDFs and Doc files. Preview books and embed some into your website. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
Roland Gesthuizen

100 Time-Saving Search Engines for Serious Scholars » Online Universities - 2 views

  • While burying yourself in the stacks at the library is one way to get some serious research done, with today’s technology you can do quite a bit of useful searching before you ever set foot inside a library.
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    "Undergraduates and grad students alike will appreciate the usefulness of these search engines that allow them to find books, journal articles and even primary source material for whatever kind of research they're working on and that return only serious, academic results so time isn't wasted on unprofessional resources."
Deborah Baillesderr

Kiddle - visual search engine for kids - 91 views

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    "Visual search engine for kids, powered by editors and Google safe search"
Jonathan Wylie

The Top 5 Safe Search Engines for Kids - 166 views

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    The following search engines for kids are designed to help provide your children with a safe environment with which to navigate the Internet. Each offers a filtered search service that eliminates inappropriate results and keeps your kids focused on the information they really need.
Maria Papazoglou

Infotopia--A Google Alternative Safe Search Engine for Students - 184 views

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    Described as an academic search engine that points to trusted resources as sites have been selected by educators.
Kelvin Thompson

Best Image Search Engines - 173 views

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    Best Image Search Engines
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