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15 3. Educators' pedagogic competences 3.1. Digital resources C5. Selecting digital resources This competence consists of knowing how to conduct research to find quality information. Conducting reliable research implies analysing and critically evaluating the credibility and reliability of the sources. Utility in practice To access quality information, content and data, it is necessary to conduct quality research beforehand. For this purpose, the online search engines, such as Google, can filter the information depending on the keywords you set. Once this is done, it is essential to analyse, compare, and critically evaluate the sources' credibility and reliability so that the content to be used is truthful. Apart from Google, other search engines might be useful for researching, such as Bing, Yahoo Search, Ask.com and Archive.org, DuckDuckGo, Google Scholar etc. Resources & practices All these search engines work similarly, using keywords or hierarchical trees organised by topics. The search results are a list of web addresses in which topics related to the searched keywords are mentioned. Therefore, this competence can be developed by asking students to do their own research, selecting the keywords before browsing the web. It is essential to compare and contrast the results obtained, as sometimes at the beginning, some adds might appear. Apply the competence An innovative way to develop this competence could be to determine the keywords before performing research, selecting among those to write on the engine, and finally comparing the different results obtained to verify the source's reliability. It could also be interesting to search the same topic in different search engines to see the given results' differences. Tools • Searching engines: • Repositories o Google / Google Scholar o S4F o DuckDuckGo o IMAS o Yahoo o Vetiver o Bing / Ask o Pixabay