Children, Technology, and Instruction: A Case Study of Elementary School Children Using an Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC)
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dimension. Strategies were observed only among 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders and would not be predicted by developmental level. Allowed children to be more complete in identifying materials and were encouraged by assignments allowing indepth treatment of a subject of interest. Multiple concepts Children explored more than on one concept in subject Searches to focus on retrieval. “Dogs and cats” successfully limited the search; most others were not as successful: Materials about the combined concepts were not in the collection (e.g. “horses and poetry”) or one or more query terms was not an LCSH (e.g. “Cats and Strategy was used relatively uniformly in grades 3 through 6 to find information on specific interests or to meet assignments (e.g. finding out about clothing in Colonial times) that motivated children to try more complex query forms.
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تاریخ انتشار 2014