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Etienne Vallée; Carrie Fair – Knowledge Quest, 2023
This article discusses a quest-based approach to teaching catalog skills and getting to learn more about students reading interests. Quest-based activities are meaningful and can be quite engaging, not to mention entertaining and stimulating (Snelson 2022). They provide choice and differentiate the learning experience, as well as multiple pathways…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Learning Activities, Middle School Students, High School Students
Watkins, Katrine – School Library Journal, 2008
Teens are impatient and unsophisticated online researchers who are often limited by their poor reading skills. Because they are attracted to clean and simple Web interfaces, they often turn to Google--and now Wikipedia--to help meet their research needs. The Google Game, co-authored by this author, teaches kids that there is a well-thought-out…
Descriptors: Research Needs, Schools, Search Strategies, Grade 9
Jones, Pamela S. – Library Media Connection, 2007
In this article, the author describes five lessons which focus on skills that students will need in any library. The following lessons should be taught during first semester to first-year middle school students: (1) Locating books at the library; (2) Locating databases at the library; (3) Locating encyclopedias at the library; (4) Locating…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Library Instruction, Middle School Students, Teaching Methods
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Recker, Mimi M.; Dorward, James; Nelson, Laurie Miller – Educational Technology & Society, 2004
Much recent research and funding have focused on building Internet-based repositories that contain collections of high-quality learning resources, often called "learning objects." Yet little is known about how non-specialist users, in particular teachers, find, access, and use digital learning resources. To address this gap, this article…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Case Studies, Educational Resources, Mathematics Teachers