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Add iSEEK Education Searchblade to your school or district site for FREE

By Rachel Loeper
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iSEEK EducationFor a limited time only!

Give your students, teachers, and parents direct access to top-quality education resources in a user-friendly search environment that knows who you are and what you’re looking for!

What are the benefits of adding iSEEK Education Searchblade to your school or district site?

1.    Students will have a reliable research tool for reports. By linking to iSEEK Education through your school or district site, students will know where to turn first when they have a research paper or oral presentation to prepare. Because iSEEK Education is safe, authoritative, intelligent, and time-saving, students will discover quality results and information in a timely manner. (more…)

How do your students know which Web sites to trust?

By Rachel Loeper
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iSEEK EducationLearn 7 ways they can ensure site quality.

The lack of uniform standards and the ease of access have made the Internet a powerful but uncertain medium. Substantial effort is required to adequately evaluate its information, and this may not always be apparent to users. This is particularly challenging for students…[1]

Web sites can change over night, and students must develop the information literacy skills that will enable them to evaluate sites quickly and accurately. iSEEK™ Education Searchblade™ is a great place for students to discover trustworthy reference materials. Read on to learn what else students can do to ensure the resources they cite are reliable.

1. Every site has a purpose, and you must discover what it is. Advertisements, propaganda, and intentional misinformation can be designed to look reliable. Remember that all commercial sites, even popular names like Microsoft® and Crayola®, carry some kind of bias – they want to sell you something! (more…)

How much time do you spend sorting through irrelevant information on the Web?

By Rachel Loeper
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iSEEK Education

For your students, that time drain is probably much larger.

What if there was a search engine that knew who you were, and what you were looking for?

Now there is.

http://education.iseek.com

Quietly revolutionizing the way students and educators search, iSEEK™ Education Searchblade™ turns the burdensome task of finding standards-based resources into an exciting and unique experience. It knows that you are student, educator, or parent, and it understands the meaning embedded in the questions you ask. Rather than returning thousands of irrelevant and untrustworthy results, (more…)