Group items tagged

January 5, 2015 Google Maps is an excellent tool to use with students to develop their spatial thinking. Beyond getting driving or walking directions to the other, this tool enables students to discover the world right from their classrooms. It is also a very good way to teach students about geography concepts, distance measurement, map readings and other fundamentals of mapping such as longitude, latitude, locations and many more.

Thoughtful post about the benefits of gmail from Google.

"Updates/Posts * Facebook status updates: 700 per second * Twitter tweets: 600 per second * Buzz posts: 55 per second And compared to searches * Google: 34,000 searches per second * Yahoo: 3,200 searches per second * Bing: 927 searches per second"

magazines available through google books

A guide from Free Technology for Teachers. How to: - Refine search to Free Google eBooks - Search by publication type and date etc. - Download book to your ereader device - Share your book - Add book to your library - etc.

·   We are living in an Age of Misinformation - not the information age. - Students need to learn how to access information as well as synthesize it to draw conclusions.  This is college and career readiness.  Not, finding information on Google or mere vetted websites and jotting those notes into a pro-forma document or virtual index cards.  

Deciding between two similar items for your next purchase? Easily compare them by putting vs between two search terms. For instance, "f16 vs f/a-18". Ask Google to "Flip a coin" and watch as a virtual coin appears in your search results and gets flipped!

Very detailed instructions for using Google Photos.

Has Google turned the corner and begun to subvert search results for self promotion? " It has degraded its premier product in service of promoting others. It has done devious things to ferret out information from its users that they do not willingly provide."

This has some great information. Can someone show me an educational sight or app that I can use to develop my own skills in google searching? Maybe a game with scenarios such as Daniel Russell poses in this post.

Earlier this week, Google introduced Knowledge Graph, the company's new search technology that understands "things not strings" and adds rich and relevant details about your query in the sidebar of your search results. Here are five great things you can now do with a quick Google search.

"An eye tracking experiment revealed that college student users have substantial trust in Google's ability to rank results by their true relevance to the query. When the participants selected a link to follow from Google's result pages, their decisions were strongly biased towards links higher in position even if the abstracts themselves were less relevant. While the participants reacted to artificially reduced retrieval quality by greater scrutiny, they failed to achieve the same success rate. This demonstrated trust in Google has implications for the search engine's tremendous potential influence on culture, society, and user traffic on the Web."