USING DATABASES AND TECHNOLOGY IN CURRICULUM

INTEGRATION

Presented by Ivey Carey and Carol Richmond

PURPOSE OF PRESENTATION

• Share how we teach database and technology usage for curriculum integration

• Explain how you might incorporate database and technology usage on your campus

OBJECTIVE

• To be able to identify ways to increase your database usage

• Identify at least one way you can integrate technology into your information literacy instruction

Standards for Student Learning

• Information Power: Nine Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning

http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/informationpower/informationpower.cfm

Information Literacy

WHAT IS INFORMATION LITERACY?

• The ability to access information efficiently and effectively

• The ability to evaluate information critically and competently

• The ability to use information accurately and creatively

*Source: American Association of SchoolLibrarians.

WHAT IS INFORMATION LITERACY?

• Knowing when you have a need for information • Identifying information needed to address a given

problem or issue• Finding needed information • Evaluating the information • Organizing the information • Using the information effectively to address the

problem or issue at hand*Source: ALA Presidential Committee on Information Literacy, 1989.

WHAT ARE SEARCH ENGINES?

 • Programs that search the web for documents with

specified keywords and returns a list of documents where the keywords were found

• A term used to describe systems like Google, Bing, Yahoo

• Order of the list may depend on $$$, number of hits, and/or ads (not relevance).

• Some links may not be age-appropriate.

WHAT ARE DATABASES

• A collection of information available through the internet that is organized and stored so that a computer program can quickly access specific information

• Databases contains validated information from publishers of encyclopedia articles, newspapers, magazines, biographies, other nonfiction text, and selected websites

INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES VS. ONLINE DATABASES

Search Engines• Free web pages from

around the world (including ads)

• Updates unknown so you may find ‘dead links’

• Search by key words• Validity and bias of

information questionable

• Dynamic, changing data, authority unknown

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Databases• Web pages that have

been evaluated • Citations to some of

the articles published on a certain subject

• Updated on a regular basis

• Search by key words• Information is

validated (material has been selected)

• Available through the internet

WHERE DO I BEGIN WITH DATABASE INSTRUCTION FOR MY CAMPUS?

• Faculty/Staff• Students• Parents/Community

FACULTY/STAFF

• At the beginning of the school year provide the staff with a brief orientation of the available databases our district offers and how to access them

• Throughout the school year offer database training classes

• Use a "hook" like the read-aloud feature of Nettrekker in a "Technology Minute" at faculty meetings

• Constantly promote database usage, reminding teachers that students do not know how to evaluate what they find on Google.

 

STUDENTS

 •Introduce each database early in the school year using a “hook” such as a current event, famous person, animal, TV show, or place.•Demonstrate how to access the database from school and home and then have the students practice these steps multiple times.•Conduct sample searches and explore the function feature in each database (Example: NetTrekker has the audio component. Britannica has streaming media)•Point out special features such as interactive learning games, streaming media and web links found within the database.•Provide shortcuts on computer desktops in classrooms. •You may want to schedule the computer lab for database instruction.

Database activity

The idea for Labor Day came from a man named Peter J. McGuire, a union leader and a ________________ (hint: find the website from Library of Congress (LOC)). What other interesting facts did you learn about Labor Day from this web site?

Database activity

What United States president signed a bill making Labor Day a national holiday? ______________________ What other interesting fact did you learn from Encyclopedia Britannica Elementary?

Database activity

Kids Search: Find the Eight Hour Law for Employees of the United States. Name one senator who voted against (nay) the bill. (hint: limit your search by clicking on the Primary Source Document filter).

Database activity

Kids Infobits: Find a picture of the annual Labor Day Bridge Walk in Michigan. Who is the original publisher of the picture?

Database activity

How many books about child labor are there in DISD? _________ (Hint: From your library catalog, click on Classic Search then click on Home and select Search All Schools from the menu at left.)

Database activity

Russell Freedman wrote a book titled Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade against Child Labor. Listen to Russell Freedman talk about his name in Teaching Books.net.

Database activity

We couldn’t find anything relevant for primary students in World and I. If you find something useful let us know.

Database Activity

What pathway could you follow to find the article about Cesar Chavez in PebbleGo Biographies?

Discovery Education

• Find a video clip about Labor Day and download it to your desktop.

Library Lesson Plans

• Login to SchoolWires

• Navigate to Wilson

• Hold your mouse over the library tab and choose the DentonISD Library Lesson Plans page.

PARENTS  Provide parents with information about access to the school's online databases through:PTA newsletterPTA meetingLibrary brochureSchool website  Have students "try out" their home access while in the library!

CELEBRATE    lAlways celebrate the completion of a research project by allowing students to:Display products in the libraryPresent information orally or in some multi-media format to each otherDisplay products on the library webpageShare information learned on the school newscast 

Integrating Technology • Be ready to offer a suggestion for a technology-based

product to replace the old fashioned paper product.  Hook: Display student work on the teacher's website.

• Programs to use with students:o Powerpoint

slide shows mini books save slides as jpeg and narrate in Photostory

o Excel  record data produce graphs (can collection)

o Photostory scan pictures and narrate (Red Ribbon Week feature)

o MovieMaker video production 

http://www.dentonisd.org/51242829124016/podcasts/browse.asp?A=399&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&C=74934

Use Technology Centers 

Powerpoint• present information• embed videos from Discovery(Prairie animals)

 Photostory• present information  (Using a Shelf Marker/Library Orientation

Video)• Broadcasts

Glogster•Edu.glogster.com

VoiceThreadswww.voicethread.com  

Questions?

Ideas!

Have Fun!