Universidad Mariano Glvez Facultad de Humanidades Escuela de Idiomas Tecnologa de Informacin y Comunicacin en Educacin Licda.

Silvia Sowa

DATABASES Organizing and Analyzing Information

Blanca Luisa Mazariegos Chvez Licenciatura en Enseanza de Ingls con Especializacin en Tecnologa Educativa No. Carnet 6076-04-863 May 26, 2012

DATABASES Organizing and Analyzing Information

The learning process and the information process mirror each other as we seek to construct meaning from the sources we encounter and to create products that shape and communicate that meaning effectively. Developing expertise in organizing and analyzing information is in fact the authentic learning. That modern education must promote. Databases: Organizing and analyzing information

Learning with Databases

Teaching with Databases

Features and Functions of Database Tools

These methods for coping with the information glut might inform personal choices and actions. 1. Sample the available information resources. 2. Choose information that might serve their purposes 3. Construct and communicate useful insights and implications that result from using information. The Features and Functions of Database Tools: A database is a collection of related information or facts stored in a computer. Most programs allow users the database. Most programs allow users to retrieve reports and summaries of information. Database structure: Information in a data base is organized using files, records, fields, and data. Types of Databases There are three types of databases: Text based databases, hypermedia databases, and multimedia databases Text based databases. Text-based databases include only text information, letter and numbers. Hypermedia databases. Traditionally, databases have been a means of organizing text. In a hypermedia database, users can move about within the database environment without linear, sequential restrictions. Multimedia databases: Multimedia simply means any system that unites two or more media into a single product or presentation, can be a liner as a book.

Students-created databases: The advantage of student-created databases is that they allow students to practice their research skills and focus student attention on clearly identifying their information needs in relation to a particular problem. Teacher-crated databases: Using one of the many database programs, teachers can use flexibility of tool based database programs to create a database on any topic the wish. The advantage of teacher created databases is that students are asked to use a database that has been tailored specifically to fit their curriculum and covers exactly what need to be taught. Commercial Databases: Commercial databases are ones that a company has created and that teaches or school can buy for use in classroom. The advantage of using commercial databases is that the information is already there, often created in a way that will hold students attention and often more comprehensive and in depth than either teachers or students can or are willing to collect. On-line databases: Many databases can be accessed using the Internet. These databases are stored on a computer somewhere are called a sever and can be accessed by the computer and modem

LEARNING WITH DATBASES These skills include information-related task such as analyzing, observing, classifying, communicating, comparing and contrasting, defining, describing, evaluating, generalizing, inferring, i9nterpreting, and extrapolating. Process skills come to life when students use databases to discover commonalities and differences among groups of events or things, analyze relationships, look for trends, test and refine hypotheses, organize and the information, keep list up to date, and arrange information in useful ways. Databases and problem solving: Problem-solving skills associated with database use can be lower_ level, fairly mechanical skills or higher level activities that use database programs as Vehicles for thinking. Tools to explore and manipulate words, data, and ideas. Research on Learning with Databases: Databases seem to offer the most effective and meaningful help when they are embedded in a structures problem-solving process and when the activity includes class and small group discussion of search results. TEACHING WITH DATABASES Learning to use a database: The emphasis changes from the mechanics of the software to the search required to locate data to e entered into a database. Databases as an Integrate Learning Tool: In selecting authentic problems, educators should pick problems that are contemporary, nontrivial, and ral complex enough to engage students and amenable to concrete outcomes. Authentic

problems should derive from the ongoing curriculum of the classroom, not be artificially added to afford the use of database. A Clear Outcome/Product: The presentation of the results of the problems-solving activities may take many forms: When students solve problems, it is essential that they understand clearly the outcome or product is one that flows naturally from the problem. Mechanical Skills: Any database software package allows users to implement a number of functions and to implement a number of different queries. Proccess/Thinking Skills: As meta cognitive guides, teachers can model appropriate thinking process for students, showing students how information can be transformed in particular ways.

CONCLUSION As we learn into the previous document the DATABASES

Organizing and Analyzing Information as importance

how the development databases are ideal for engaging students in problems solving activities. A database is the perfect electronic environment in which to learn to organize and analyze information that have been affected our environment and we as teacher need to know how all facts that are involved into the methodological systems that are applied into the classroom. And no matter which one is the area in who our students work with, we have to focus into the importance to have the better tool that they have to apply into the daily routine. Around the World have been changes, those changes really have been affect our environment and the concept that we have or we have applied. Success with database certainly requires that students understand the mechanical operations associated with databases.