One of the most common ways in which teacher librarians can help a teacher is by showing and providing reliable resources for research projects and assignments. Almost everything can be found online, but students need to know that not everything that they find online is true and/or factual. Searching on Google can bring up many unreliable resources. Two ways that I encourage students to do research is through Britannica online or through an advanced search on Google. Britannica online is an online encyclopedia. Britannica online has over 120,000 articles that are updated regularly. It has daily features, updates and links to news reports from The New York Times and the BBC. Britannica can be used at any level, from elementary to high school, and has a variety of features, such as text to speech, highlight, translate (to name just a few). Britannica online is a resource that our AEA provides to us, free of cost. Researching using a simple Google search will provide many results to browse through. You can access Google’s advanced search at this link: https://www.google.com/advanced_search. From there, you can refine your search so you won’t have so many results to search from. Though this type of resource will provide a vast amount of articles, students will need to be able to know how to tell which resources are reliable and which ones are not. Happy researching!
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