Search engines & Web innovations
There is a whole range of search engines out there to help us find the information we are looking for. So why is it that I have always just used Google? Am I too lazy to try other search engines or do I not know where to find them? I’d have to say a combination of both. Most of the time you just need someone to help steer you in the right direction and this is what the presenters did during this lesson. I now know that Google was launched in 1998, so I must have been using a different search engine before then.
There is a range of great search engines targeted at school aged children. We looked at Kidzui, which is like the internet for kids. Kidzui holds a number of websites, videos and pictures that have been approved for children to view. Parents also get regular emails outlining the sites that their children have visited on the internet. Another great site would be Zoeybot, which is like Wikipedia for kids. Zoeybot offers some useful information as well as interesting features for kids. However, I think children may become a little distracted with the chat feature. From the list of web innovations I can see that the internet holds many possibilities in the classroom.
on October 30th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Hi Kate,
You got me triggered with this great post
Think you hit some core issues here. I mean you’re right we are lazy most of the time, and just take stuff for granted. And hopefully won’t act upon it.
However your reference to Kidzui I so don’t agree with this. I mean “an internet for kids” (?) There is no such thing imo.
Kidzui is an expensive ’shill’. It offers (as per their advertising 1,000,000 safe sites for your child) I mean…how could I as a parent ever imagine a million sites to be safe for my child?
So yes, you’re right I guess, it is us -parents being lazy that make money for people like Kidzui. Too sad imo.
We could & should do better.