Teaching STEM students with blindness and other visual impairments is an evolving field and this website is not the definitive answer but a guide to what can be done to improve the instructional content of STEM to visually impaired students. This page is dedicated to providing a pathway forward and to give you some search tips and databases that can help you.
Databases:
Worldcat: A worldwide library catalog.
EBSCO: A database of journal articles. Can be generally accessed through a local University's library system or through your public library.
ERIC: Education Resources Information Center
Google: Global search engine for web content
When searching these databases it is important to be careful on selecting your search terms to weed out the articles, sites, etc. regarding the topic of Stem Cells.
For example, if you were to do a Google search for STEM education and Blindness and wanted to exclude stem cell research you might search for: stem and education and blindness -cell
This simple boolean search looks for websites containing STEM, Education, and Blindness and excludes those sites involving a reference to cells.
When working with journal articles it is sometimes a good idea to restrict your search to recent articles. This can be done using the advanced search option for the database in question. Restricting your search to a five year period will greatly reduce the number of articles that you need to read through to find what you want.
It is important to note that every database is different on how they treat search operators. A simple Google search can help you locate each of these databases search operator help page.
For example: search AND operators site:ebsco.com
The above search looks for Search and Operators within EBSCO's website. This same search can be done for any web-based database.
Worldcat: A worldwide library catalog.
EBSCO: A database of journal articles. Can be generally accessed through a local University's library system or through your public library.
ERIC: Education Resources Information Center
Google: Global search engine for web content
When searching these databases it is important to be careful on selecting your search terms to weed out the articles, sites, etc. regarding the topic of Stem Cells.
For example, if you were to do a Google search for STEM education and Blindness and wanted to exclude stem cell research you might search for: stem and education and blindness -cell
This simple boolean search looks for websites containing STEM, Education, and Blindness and excludes those sites involving a reference to cells.
When working with journal articles it is sometimes a good idea to restrict your search to recent articles. This can be done using the advanced search option for the database in question. Restricting your search to a five year period will greatly reduce the number of articles that you need to read through to find what you want.
It is important to note that every database is different on how they treat search operators. A simple Google search can help you locate each of these databases search operator help page.
For example: search AND operators site:ebsco.com
The above search looks for Search and Operators within EBSCO's website. This same search can be done for any web-based database.