When is the best time to teach students how to use databases? Last year I had fixed classes and I taught the databases in isolation.( when there is not a specific purpose the use) This year I am teaching the databases in an as needed basis. When the students have a research project or something they need to find out for their content teacher, I work with the class and determine when to introduce/ review the ease of use of the databases that we have available.
For example, at the beginning of the year I worked with the FACS teacher ( Home Ec in my day) to develop a major unit on researching a possible career. I placed the career resources on the library web page, There was a career survey , and specific sites that she wanted them to use. These were not actually databases but government sites that we wanted them to use.
The language teachers did research projects . So I showed the student the Culture Gram database . This database madd their project extremely easy.
I find that teaching students databases when the are needed for a project much more effective for students to actually leann about them and then USE them in their search for information.
For example, at the beginning of the year I worked with the FACS teacher ( Home Ec in my day) to develop a major unit on researching a possible career. I placed the career resources on the library web page, There was a career survey , and specific sites that she wanted them to use. These were not actually databases but government sites that we wanted them to use.
The language teachers did research projects . So I showed the student the Culture Gram database . This database madd their project extremely easy.
I find that teaching students databases when the are needed for a project much more effective for students to actually leann about them and then USE them in their search for information.
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