Week nine (3/16-3/20)

Monday
Today, this is the first time I need to talk with students very seriously. Normally, I believe they are in the university and I would treat them as adults and respect them. However, there were three students keep chatting and doing google image search instead of searching on the database and be familiar with it. Therefore, I stopped them and was very seriously told them image search won't be helpful for their research papers and they need to search articles.

The good thing is that Toby, my supervisor, has told me that there might be students will try to do something else during the class, and told us that we could ask professors to stop them. Even though I was not surprised when students were interrupting the class, I also noticed that asking the professor to keep students pay attention on the class is really necessary.

Wednesday
Even though there are classes have problem, there are also classes that have no problems and students have the experience of researching. During today’s session, I found out that students have experience of using databases for their research paper since high school. Therefore, instead of teaching them how to search articles and books basically, I also talked about cross search; use GetText, cross check different subject areas for their topics such as ScienceDirect and Opposing View Point for both science article and pros/cons of their topics.