Here are some of the highlights of that exciting experience. This includes going on field trips, watching videos, and listening to visitors to the classroom. Students participate in brainstorming that gives them the opportunity to recall large amounts of data. Recalling data also serves to develop concepts. Students learn to state and test their own hypotheses.
Students understand the difference between data and information.
Using a data base as a teaching tool is quite different from using word processors in the classroom. Just as the use of word processing requires planning, the use of the data base as a tool requires strategies that go beyond a few afternoon sessions in the computer lab. It is important, therefore, to incorporate the Inductive Strategy of Hilda Taba into the learning process in order to succeed in integrating data bases with the curriculum.