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The Top Five Reasons NOT to use Search Engines: 

  1. All the websites you found from home are blocked by BESS.

  2. Misinformation:  Bias, Malice, Spoofs, and Amateurs

  3. Because of how the search engines work

  4. Because of how students search

  5. All the sites you don’t want students to see.

 

Activity One:  the Internet vs. Databases
  • You want your students to know the truth about George Washington and the cherry tree.  Take a look at the website that Google ranks in 3rd place for this search:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington.  
    • Look at the section called “Personal Information.”