Ducksters is a nice little search engine that is ideal for students as it is COPPA compliant and filtered for safety. This is a great way for students to search through a wide range of topics such as: Math, Science, History, and even educational games.
I highly recommend checking out Ducksters by clicking here!!!
DinoSearch is a new safe search engine for kids. It reminds me a lot of KidRex and is a great way to search for information and images in school. Keep in mind even though there are three filters blocking inappropriate content for kid that some "bad" stuff still may come through.
Pindex is an interesting new site for educational videos/courses. It is very similar to Pinterest where a user can "pin" a image or video, w/ some nice sharing options. However, there is a nice feature that awards digital badges for users who complete a "course" on a given topic.
Lumos EdSearch is a wonderful safe search engine for educational resources, apps, videos, and much much more. This site reminds me of a cross between EdShelf and Graphite and lets users share, rate, comment, and more on their resources.
LearnCloud is a new (beta) site from Rumie that reminds me a bit of a cross between Nettrekker and Edshelf. Think of it as a social search engine where users can curate educational content from the web and then share it w/ others. Also, users can comment on existing content as well as check the readability level of each item.Pindex is an interesting new (private beta) that I just found out about from the amazing blog Free Technology 4 Teachers. It is very similar to Pinterest where a user can "pin" a image or video, w/ some nice sharing options. However, there is a nice feature that awards digital badges for users who complete a "course" on a given topic.
Kidtopia is a nice educational search (COPPA/CIPA compliant) for grades K-6th. This search engine created by librarians uses Google's custom search engine to find educational sites, videos, games, and more.
Trandori is a rather interesting Kickstarter campaign for educators that introduces a new kind of search engine for interactive educational problems. All search results are generated from user created content and it combines the best features of a LMS and CMS. This is an ideal resource for self paced learning.
Wonder is a new search engine that I just found out about from the wonderful blog, Educational Technology Guy. This is an interesting site that lets users filter through experts on any given topic. A user can also save their results and become experts as well by a click of a button.
Kiddle is a new safe search engine for kids. All results are done in large font and thumbnail based images making it easy for kids to read. Best of all, it is filtered to remove any inappropriate content for kids/students.
StudyMode is an excellent new site for students looking for a wide variety of study materials. A user can search through course notes, research papers, essays, and other student created content. Also, this is a great place to find notes on famous works of literature and AP notes for exams.
Wandoo Planet is a new project that is in beta testing stages right now to help build an app that is kid-powered genome project. The way this works is kids (6-14 yrs old) will play a interest-finding game that will help them choose movies and books through their personalized recommendation engine. Also, the more the student plays the game the "smarter" the engine will get through its "adaptive learning system" algorithm (i.e. Web 3.0 anyone).
Sparticl is a new site I just found out about that is excellent for finding STEM based resources. There are over 2500 curated resources on a wide variety of subjects. Best of all a user can login and curate their own lists of resources and even vote/comment on them.
Zocial Books is a nice search engine for finding books. The results give nice thumbnails and description of the book w/ detailed bibliography details.
