FACTORS INFLUENCING TEACHERS USE OF GAMES AS STRATEGY FOR PEDAGOGY OF PRIMARY SCIENCE IN SCHOOLS: THE ROLES OF LIBRARIES
This study investigates the effectiveness of games as technique for teaching and learning of primary science in schools and the role play by library services. Game, when carefully employed and executed served as an integral part of teaching method and measure of effectiveness of instruction. Research has shown that educational games can have positive impacts on student learning and motivation. The success of a game played in an instruction class depends on the type of game selected, the development of learning outcomes, and the flexibility of library in providing library unit that is equipped with multimedia equipments where learners can interact. The study was restricted to 600 male and female respondents’ teachers in Ojo Local Educational District of Lagos State. Data were collected through 18 items questionnaire. The three generated hypotheses for the study were rejected, while the result of the finding revealed that significant difference exists between factors influencing teachers’ choice of game, its usefulness and problems hindering the effectiveness of game(s) for teaching and learning process of primary science in schools. Conclusion and recommendation were also proffered.
A Laboratory Safety Trivia Game
At the start of each semester, our department begins our chemistry seminar series with a presentation on laboratory safety. All chemistry faculty, staff, graduate students, undergraduate research students, and student laboratory assistants are required to attend. Many of these individuals have sat through these seminars for several years; they feel the seminars are boring and repetitive. In order to enliven these safety presentations, I have created a cooperative online trivia game. It has been my experience that the lab safety trivia game is an effective and entertaining way to teach lab safety.
Beyond "First You Push This Button, Then...": A Process-Oriented Approach to Teaching Searching Skills.
The current proliferation of computer-based sources and resources challenges librarians to teach the commonalities of using a computer to retrieve relevant sources, rather than to instruct users how to cope with the quirks of individual databases and systems. Since the spring of 1991, Bobst Library at New York University has been teaching open workshops on the use of DIALOG Information Service's Classmate system to students with a wide range of computer skills, academic levels, and in different disciplines (often in the same class). A core group of librarian instructors designed a syllabus which stresses the common techniques and strategies of computer-based research. Teaching just the basics allows these classes to focus on casting a research question in terms of computer logic, and to demonstrate the recursive process of an evaluative path. Applying this approach to any computer-based resource (whether OPACs, CD-ROMs, or online databases) will address the need to create an integrated framework for how t...