This is probably a relic of what these teachers learned 20+ years ago when the internet had an higher ratio of academically spirited content, and wasn’t yet entirely full of people trying to make a buck with pages that merely look like content to googlebot.
Do schools still have subscriptions to things like LexisNexis? I feel like it would be eye opening to many students to see just how different an academic search engine is compared to public search engines.
Most (all?) of my schools did have a subscription (early 2000's), but it was only accessible at school on the school computers, so I basically never used it, because I did my homework/research at home.
Do schools still have subscriptions to things like LexisNexis? I feel like it would be eye opening to many students to see just how different an academic search engine is compared to public search engines.