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Don’t ‘just Google it’: 3 ways students can get the most from searching online

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Don’t ‘just Google it’: 3 ways students can get the most from searching online
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The Conversation
DOI 10.64628/aa.pxumkp9a3
Authors

Morrison, Renee

Abstract

Most students think they know how to use the internet to search for information, and teachers agree. But this isn't always the case.

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 143. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 January 2022.
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