Search engines used in schools?

**cjus** · 02-28-2008, 10:32 PM

Do students use Google and Wikipedia from schools?

My daughter's class (fifth grade) uses Google and [url="http://www.kbears.com/"]http://www.kbears.com/[/url] and students have landed on questionable pages. This is apparently still possible with Google even when "safe search" is enabled. The issue in Google's case is that the search results are clean but the adwords (text-based advertising on right of page) may still provide hyperlinks to questionable places.

- Carlos

**Bananas** · 02-29-2008, 12:51 AM

Our students use Google, but any questionable ad or content shows a CPA filter system. (Whatever that is). Students get frustrated at so much being blocked out that they need.

**ianlou143** · 03-24-2008, 06:09 AM

The schools here in our place uses wikipedia and live search. Live search seem to give good links and content.

**kontan** · 03-24-2008, 04:55 PM

Ours can use any search engine. Questionable content is filtered at the server level. I allow students to use Wikipedia as a starting point for information but will not accept it as a valid resource for research because it can be edited by anyone with Wikipedia access.

**arifmahi** · 03-27-2008, 08:16 PM

I am Primary School Teacher I use to Google search Engine during my Teaching Practice so I think this is better from me and My Students.

**dhcrusoe** · 04-06-2008, 05:09 PM

Hey there --

We're working on a safe-search technology for kids, if you're interested to check it out: [url]http://boolify.plml.org[/url] -- note that it's based on the Google Safesearch (strict) filtering.

--Dave[/url]

**Pogo/MS** · 04-11-2008, 03:39 AM

I have not blocked any search engines. I do discourage Wikipedia. Considering anyone can upload information on there. Most of my kids trust and use Google.

**lravidlearner** · 07-01-2008, 04:37 PM

I've taught elementary grades, and subbed for middle and high school. We used Google for the higher grades. But for my 3rd-5th grade students, I have them use Awesome Library and KidsClick!

Both of these search engines were designed by school librarians and so contain sources most useful for school subjects and screen out inappropriate content. They also give kids the ability to browse by content area. KidsClick! helpfully provides the grade reading level for each of the results, so my kids can key in on websites with content they understand, which I think is really the biggest hurdle for younger students to handle.

KidsClick! is at: [url]http://www.kidsclick.org/[/url]

Awesome Library is at: [url]http://www.awesomelibrary.org/student.html[/url]

These are both excellent research tools for students of any age.

**Pogo/MS** · 07-03-2008, 12:28 AM

We usually use Google.

**Ima Teacher** · 07-07-2008, 02:42 PM

Our students mostly use Google, Yahoo, and Dogpile to search. We use default settings for the search engines, but the district has filters on the server.

They're not, however, foolproof. Students still need monitoring.

Last year I had one of my students look up a link that was in our literature book, and the page had a pop-up ad of a naked woman.

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