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Inquiry Page

Inquiry Page. Chip Bruce Library & Information Science U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Outline. Inquiry-based learning Inquiry Page Community Inquiry Labs Research on inquiry. Harold Kroto. Stephen's questions. Why do cars speed up passing a stop sign?

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Inquiry Page

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  1. Inquiry Page Chip Bruce Library & Information Science U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  2. Outline • Inquiry-based learning • Inquiry Page • Community Inquiry Labs • Research on inquiry

  3. Harold Kroto

  4. Stephen's questions • Why do cars speed up passing a stop sign? • Why do things far away seem blue • Why do my eyes water when I stare • How does your body make tears • Is salt in our tears the same as the salt we put on food • What's that pipe from the silo to the barn?

  5. Weather curriculum Jack Easley asks students to look up at a rainbow, but the children look down and ask: "Why do earthworms come out of the ground after it rains?"

  6. 21st-century challenge • Find problems • Integrate knowledge from multiple sources and media • Think critically • Collaborate • Learn how to learn

  7. Inquiry-based learning … in which people construct knowledge based on the questions that arise in their lived experience

  8. Teacher as inquirer • Inquiry about the world • Partner in inquiry • Modeling • Guiding • Inquiry about teaching and learning

  9. Interests of the learner • Investigate: learn about the world through authentic engagement • Create: change the world • Communicate: enter the social world • Express: reflect on experience –Dewey, The School & Society, 1900

  10. 1) Inquiry Page • Partner projects • Resources for inquiry teaching & learning • Lesson planning support and idea site • Tools for student and community inquiry • Inquiry in Action

  11. Learning • Students • Teachers • Community members • Developers • practicums, internships, independent study • weekly meetings • workshops • sequence of courses => graduate specialization

  12. 2) Community Inquiry Labs Community = support for collaborative activity and for creating knowledge connected to people's values, history, and lived experience Inquiry = support for open-ended, democratic, participatory engagement Laboratory = a space and resources to bring theory and action together in an experimental and critical manner

  13. 2) Communities: NCSA Inquiry involves people as active learners. Students in inquiry classrooms may experience anything from hatching chickens, to a classroom business, to the bioinformatics of whales. Also: Bugscope, EdGrid, VR-Savvy, GK-12, RiverWeb, ChemViz, EADS, ..

  14. Communities: Beyond… • Ethnography of the University • Sisternet • Telenature; Life on the Prairie • Freshman composition • Service learning • Marshall Islands • CAMPWS (Water)

  15. 3) Research on inquiry How can we • connect learning & life? • support participatory design? • accommodate diversity & shared values?

  16. a) Connect learning and life

  17. b) Participatory design

  18. C) Accommodate difference & shared values

  19. Conclusion • Design: appropriate technology • Generativity: participatory design • Sustainability: incorporation into community needs

  20. Learning to teach - 1 As a guide for the experimentation we so freely encourage, the table opposite will be helpful. We must caution, however, that it is rife with half-truths--despite our best efforts at disclosure. We are dealing here with living things whose colors, habits, and general constitutions will vary with locale and with the skill of the individual gardener.

  21. Learning to teach - 2 This unpredictability, which strikes terror into the heart of the beginner, is in fact one of the glories of gardening. Things change, certainly from year to year and sometimes from morning to evening. There are mysteries, surprises, and always, lessons to be learned. After almost 40 years hard at it, we are only beginning. –Amos Pettingill, The Garden Book, 1986

  22. Inquiry in science learning National Science Foundation: “research-validated models (e.g., extended inquiry, problem-solving)” Reinventing Undergraduate Education (Carnegie Foundation's Boyer Commission): “#1 Make research-based learning the standard” Project 2061 (American Association for the Advancement of Science): “#1 …science literacy for all high-school graduates”

  23. Contact • Chip Bruce: chip@uiuc.edu • Inquiry Page: inquiry.uiuc.edu

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