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Inquiry Learning & ICT

Inquiry Learning & ICT. Jan-Marie Kellow. “When schools put the cart before the horse - buying technology for the sake of technology without asking critical questions about purpose, use and the classroom impact of such tools - they are inviting disappointment.” Jamie McKenzie

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Inquiry Learning & ICT

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  1. Inquiry Learning & ICT Jan-Marie Kellow

  2. “When schools put the cart before the horse - buying technology for the sake of technology without asking critical questions about purpose, use and the classroom impact of such tools - they are inviting disappointment.” Jamie McKenzie www.fno.org/jan02/overequipped.html

  3. Research Results ICTs supported inquiry in many ways: • Obtaining, recording, sorting and presenting information • Prompt access to primary information sources • Information on current topics • Decision-making • Home-school partnerships (KnowledgeNET) • Understanding complex concepts • Medium to communicate findings eg. email & KnowledgeNET

  4. Main uses of ICTs for inquiry: • Bringing in and recording ideas • Sorting and linking ideas • Taking linked ideas beyond the subject Source: Pam Hook & Julie Mills - http://inquire2learn.wikispaces.com/ICT+interventions

  5. Bringing in and recording ideas • Inquiry stages: Setting the Scene, Task Definition, Planning, Find & Gather, Locate & Access etc. • Activities: define, describe, list, name, label

  6. Modelling and Demonstrating Data Projector Interactive Whiteboard

  7. Questions

  8. Traditional Information Sources • Fax • Telephone • School library National Library Searchable online catalogues -http://nlnzcat.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First

  9. National Library Online Collections www.natlib.govt.nz/collections/digital-collections/icdl/recent-books

  10. Online Books www.childrenslibrary.org/

  11. Discover:http://discover.natlib.govt.nz/ - visual arts and music resources • Index New Zealand:http://innz.natlib.govt.nz/content/index.html - magazine and newspaper articles • Alexander Turnbull Research Library http://tapuhi.natlib.govt.nz/ • Timeframes:www.natlib.govt.nz/collections/digital-collections/timeframes - images that relate to a range of topics, including geography, history, the natural environment, art, people and events.

  12. Other New Zealand collections • Matapihi: http://www.matapihi.org.nz/ - pictures, sounds and objects from New Zealand’s archives, galleries, libraries and museums • EPICwww.tki.org.nz/r/epic/ -resourceseg.Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Junior and student editions – passworded – all schools have username and password

  13. Direct contact with experts • Letters • Email • NZ Ask an Expert http://uneli.unitec.ac.nz/experts/

  14. Online Encyclopedias • Wikipedia for Schools: http://schools-wikipedia.org/ – articles from Wikipedia have been checked for accuracy and suitability for students • Fact Monster: www.factmonster.com/index.html - An online collection of reference works written for children • Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Junior and student editions via EPICwww.tki.org.nz/r/epic/ passworded – all schools have username and password

  15. Learning Objects www.tki.org.nz/r/digistore/ Schools need to register to receive a password

  16. Kid-friendly search engines • Yahoo KidsThis is the remake of the ‘Yahooligans’ site. Search results are kid safe. • Kids Click!Searches about 5,000 kid-friendly websites selected by librarians • Ask for KidsThis replaces ‘Ask Jeeves for Kids’. Searches result in a list of keywords. Choose the keyword that best matches the information needed • CybersleuthWorks in a similar way to Kids Click • Ithaki for KidsThis is a meta search engine which searches several kid-friendly search engines at once

  17. “Unless students are trained to use the advanced features of search engines like Google, they tend to gather huge piles of pages that contribute little to understanding. Some have likened these piles of information to a landfill.” Jamie McKenzie (fno.org) Google Search Results

  18. "Children who are in this concrete-operational stage seek information that exactly matches their own search terms or the terminology used by the teacher or in the assignment. In other words, they are concrete thinkers and have trouble with anything that is not an exact fit with their understanding of the question." Hirsch, 1999

  19. Any Questions www.anyquestions.co.nz/en/anyQuestions.html

  20. www.opoutere.schoolsonline.co.nz/index.php?page=home (Public pages, Welcome, Webquests)

  21. http://www.opoutere.school.nz/Webquests.htm

  22. Providing weblinks and resources if you don’t have an LMS Filamentality Example: www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listinquiryjk.html To join: http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/

  23. Wikis Examples: http://kopukids.wikispaces.com/ To join: http://www.wikispaces.com/

  24. Blogs Example from Pukehina school: http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=80820 To join: http://classblogmeister.com/?blog=rethink

  25. Sorting & Linking Ideas • Inquiry stage: Sort, sift and analyse • Activities: sequence, classify, compare and contrast, cause, parts-whole, analogy

  26. Mind Mapping Used for: • Prior Knowledge • Subsidiary Questions • Note taking • Sorting/Sifting/Analysing • Reporting findings Used on/with: • Laptops • Data projector • Interactive Whiteboard Eg. Inspiration, C-map

  27. Free Mindmapping Software • Cmap: http://cmap.ihmc.us/ Users can edit their maps at the same time with other users on the Internet. Download from: http://cmap.ihmc.us/download/free_client.php

  28. Gliffy Online mindmapping program. Free for 5 public diagrams or &35 pa for unlimited access.

  29. Graphic Organisers • Graphic Organiserswww.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/torganiz.htm • More Graphic Organisers - see www.inquiringmind.co.nz/resources.htm • ‘Infusing the teaching of Critical and Creative Thinking into Content Instruction’ By Robert Swartz & Sandra Parks (The Critical Thinking Co.) $95 - available from Learning Network NZ www.learningnetwork.ac.nz/

  30. Taking linked ideas beyond the subject • Inquiry stages: Create & Communicate, Synthesis, Evaluate • Activities: generalise, reflect, predict, create, judge, justify, evaluate

  31. Presentation/Communication • Radio interviews • Podcasts (Garageband/Audacity) • Artwork (Paint/Artrage) • 3D designs (SketchUp) • Posters • Songs • Wikis • Blogs • Etc etc. • Powerpoint • Webpages • Photostory3 • Video • Documentaries • Letters/emails • Reports • Plays/Skits etc. • News desk • Brochures

  32. Self- Assessment

  33. Rubrics http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

  34. Links to free software Software for Learning: www.tki.org.nz/r/ict/software/ http://penspace.wikispaces.com/Useful+Free+Software

  35. Links to useful websiteshttp://penspace.wikispaces.com/Useful+Websites www.inquiringmind.co.nz/resources.htm

  36. Link to other information on ICTs and Inquirywww.inquiringmind.co.nz/inquiry_&_ict.htm

  37. "....Computers are not rescuing the school from a weak curriculum, any more than putting pianos in every classroom would rescue a flawed music program. Wonderful learning can occur without computers or even paper. But once the teachers and children are enfranchised as explorers, computers, like pianos, can serve as powerful amplifiers, extending the reach and depth of the learners." Alan Kay

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