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Community Inquiry Labs

Community Inquiry Labs. Chip Bruce Library & Information Science U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign VMT Project CSCL Workshop, Drexel University , June 9-11 , 2004. Research Questions. What theory adequately accounts for the complexity and diversity of (distributed) collective practice?

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Community Inquiry Labs

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  1. Community Inquiry Labs • Chip Bruce • Library & Information Science • U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • VMT Project CSCL Workshop, Drexel University, June 9-11, 2004

  2. Research Questions • What theory adequately accounts for the complexity and diversity of (distributed) collective practice? • What tools are needed to mediate work on concrete tasks? • What is the most effective process for developing shared capacity in the form of knowledge, skills, & tools? • How do actual communities work to address their problems?

  3. (1) Pragmatism • “the desire to make the entire social organism democratic, to extend democracy beyond its political expression,” Jane Addams • “only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same in the future,” John Dewey • “A community of action has to work towards ...(i) transforming an external situation...and (ii)allowing its members to develop mutual knowledge and identities,” Manuel Zacklad

  4. (2) Community Inquiry Labs A place where members of a community come together to develop shared capacity and work on common problems. Community – support for collaborative activity and for creating knowledge that is connected to people's values, history, and lived experiences 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

  5. Setup Bricks

  6. (3) Development Process • “improve the improvement process,” Doug Engelbart • “participatory design requires a shared form of life,” Pelle Ehn • Open participation in iLabs design, creation, membership, & use • Accessible for low-end users => Open-source, W3C, CSS, PHP/MySQL • Modifiable--brick selection, customization, development • Self-documenting • Use ==> Build ==> Design

  7. Opening the process

  8. (4) Paseo Boricua • Puerto Rican Cultural Center in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood • Galvanizes neighborhood residents around community projects • Addresses critical issues: gang violence, AIDS, social and environmental justice, literacy, and economic development

  9. LIS 391: Literacy in the Information Age Course • Website maker <http://inquiry.uiuc.edu/cil/lia.cil> • Bulletin board (phpBB) • Syllabus tool • Signup sheet (readings, class notes, computer help) • Inquiry units • Blog • Timeline

  10. GK-12: Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education • graduate students collaborate with faculty and K-12 teachers to integrate computer-based modeling and scientific visualization into education

  11. Ethnography of the University • sponsors undergraduate research on the university and archives it in web-accessible form • functions as a learning group for students, staff, and faculty interested in what it means to conduct research on universities as institutions

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