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Engage Learners and Teachers too!!!. Keith Pomeroy Richard Boettner Hilliard City Schools. The Inquiry Process. Phase 1: Wandering & Wondering. Topic Selection. Initial Event. Wandering & Wondering. Webbing Wonderings. Access Prior Knowledge. Initial Exploration. What do we know?
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Engage Learnersand Teachers too!!! Keith Pomeroy Richard Boettner Hilliard City Schools
Phase 1: Wandering & Wondering Topic Selection Initial Event Wandering & Wondering Webbing Wonderings Access Prior Knowledge Initial Exploration What do we know? What do we want to know?
What is a WebQuest? This is your mission...
The Situation • When a situation arises, you will be given specific instructions on how to proceed.
Your Mission! • You will receive instructions shortly in order to complete the mission and be successful.
The Questions • The Questions will help guide you to find the information you need to accomplish the mission.
The Resources • The Resources you need will be found on the world wide web (the internet). There you will receive more information about your mission and what can be done.
The Challenge • The Challenge is to find the clues you need to complete your mission and present your findings to the team!
Phase 1: Wandering & Wondering Topic Selection Initial Event Wandering & Wondering Webbing Wonderings Access Prior Knowledge Initial Exploration What do we know? What do we want to know?
Phase 2: Research Brainstorming Resources Organizing & Synthesizing Information Identifying Appropriate Resources Research Notetaking How will we find out about it?
Phase 3: Production Decision Making Skill Development Practice Production Product Assembly How can we show what we know?
Phase 4: Presentation Doing It Presentation
Phase 5: Celebration On-Going Concluding Knowledge Assessment, Celebration & Reflection Learning Process Goal Setting
Phase 5: Celebration Reflection Questions What do we know now? What worked well for you? What would you change? What do you know about yourself now as a learner?
Mindtools When working with technologies, why not ask learners to do what they do best- conceptualize, organize, and solve problems- and technologies to do what they do best- memorize and retrieve? That way, you’ll realize a synergy from the student using the computer. • Learning With Technology, Jonassen, Peck and Wilson, 1999
The Mindtools Webbing / Inspiration Timelines / Timeliner Graphing & Charts / Graph Club, Appleworks Multimedia Presentations / Hyperstudio, PowerPoint Databases / AppleWorks, FileMaker Pro Writing Process / Appleworks, Word, Hollywood High, Inspiration
Learners are Designers The people who learn the most from instructional materials are the people who design and produce them, not the learners for whom the materials are intended. • Jonassen, Wilsen, Wang, and Grabinger (1993)
Elements of a Project Gathering Materials Project Guidelines Project Ideas & Choices Production Tools Learning Logs Group Meetings Rubrics (with student input) Time for Celebration and Reflection
True Facilitation Inquiry isn’t just asking and answering a question. It involves searching for significant questions and figuring out how to explore those questions from many perspectives. •Learning Together Through Inquiry, Short, Schroeder, Laird, Kauffman, Ferguson, and Crawford, 1996 Role of the Media Specialist Essential Questions Getting There
Where to Start • Start slow with what you know • Design short, easy inquiry projects at first • Pick one phase to start on • Sequentially add pieces on subsequent projects
Essential Questions • Asking the right questions (students and teachers) is imperative! • Ill-structured questions are best: • Involves posing problems which are messy and do not have one correct answer • Can involve controversial issues which will elicit diverse opinions • Problems are not straight forward • Real-world type problems • Requires higher-level thinking skills