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__**Web 2.0**__

Web 2.0 tools are becoming increasingly important in children's lives and in the classroom. Steve Hargadon writes [|here] on the TechLearning site that they are the future of education.


 * __The Simple Four__**

An [|Inquiry Learning] model from the South Carolina Department of Education.


 * __Blooms Digital Taxonomy__**

On this site Kiwi teacher Andrew Churches has taken Bloom's Taxonomy and aligned different digital approaches to it.
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=Inquiry Learning Websites=

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Jan Marie Kellow's site that provides links and resources about Inquiry Learning



This site provides ideas for supporting children's essential Inquiry skills and resources for teachers.

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Trevor Bond's site with his Sauce model for Inquiry.

=Search Engines=

             When doing an internet search almost everyone reaches for Google but have you considered the alternatives? One of those is [|Quintura For Kids.] This search engine creates a cloud with a number of tags that relate to the search query and then brings up the child friendly sites that go with that tag. Take a quick tour [|here].



Why should you use this software? Librarians, teachers and parents have told us how hard it is for students to understand web searching. Boolify makes it easier to for students to understand their web search by illustrating the logic of their search, and by showing them how each change to their search instantly changes their results. It's simple, immediate and is easy and flexible to use with your class, no matter the subject matter. Search results are presented through Google's "Safe Search STRICT" technology, so we're confident that the results your students receive are safe.