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Personal Inquiry project

Personal Inquiry project. Trevor Collins Knowledge Media Institute The Open University, UK. www.pi-project.ac.uk. Overview. PI project Inquiry learning cycle Structuring an inquiry Collaboration Progression Authoring and customisation Summary. PI project.

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Personal Inquiry project

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  1. Personal Inquiry project Trevor Collins Knowledge Media Institute The Open University, UK www.pi-project.ac.uk

  2. Overview • PI project • Inquiry learning cycle • Structuring an inquiry • Collaboration • Progression • Authoring and customisation • Summary

  3. PI project • Through a process of participatory design we are developing a toolkit to support personal inquiry learning • Iterative approach • Key stage 3 (11-14 year olds) • Geography (OU) & Science (UoN) inquires • Seven trials over the last two years • Builds on Drupal content management framework

  4. Decide my inquiry question or hypothesis Inquiry learning cycle Respond to my question or hypothesis Collect my data Reflect on my progress Share and discuss my inquiry Analyse and represent my data Plan my methods, equipment, actions Find my topic

  5. Structuring an inquiry • Activities • A constituent task (e.g. form a hypothesis) • Phases • Logical groupings of activities (e.g. plan investigation) • Stages • Temporal parts of the investigation in which a set of activities are undertaken (e.g. week one)

  6. Structuring an inquiry

  7. Structuring an inquiry

  8. Structuring an inquiry • Inquiry • Stages (temporal) • Phases (logical groups) • Activities (tasks)

  9. Actors and audiences • Moving between individual, group and class levels

  10. Actors and audiences • Add an activity • For which group (specific) • Everyone in the class can write a hypothesis • Audience (relative) • Each individual writes their own hypothesis

  11. Progression • Activity status • Add • Edit • View • Unavailable

  12. Progression • Intra-stage transitions • A newly added item can be edited • Inter-stage transitions • An editable item can be viewed

  13. Progression

  14. Progression: Control flow and data flow • Control flow • Intra and inter stage transitions (i.e. workflow rules) • Data flow • Very difficult to represent data flow abstractly • We use concrete instantiation of a generic inquiry cycle

  15. Decide my inquiry question or hypothesis Data flow Respond to my question or hypothesis Collect my data Reflect Share Analyse and represent my data Plan my methods, equipment, actions Find Data flow

  16. Information blocks • Information blocks emphasise dependencies between activities

  17. Dynamic activities • Choices in activities propagate to other activities

  18. Authoring and customisation

  19. Authoring and customisation

  20. Authoring and customisation

  21. Summary: Personal Inquiry project • Structuring • Inquiry stages, phases and activities • Collaboration • Moving between individual, group and class levels • Progression • Intra-stage and inter-stage transitions • Teacher support • Authoring and customisation

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