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Community Inquiry on the Web

Explore the concept of inquiry through engaging activities, resources, and research opportunities. Foster a learner-driven process where questions spark exploration, creation, and reflection. Develop a Community Inquiry Lab to collaborate and solve common issues while connecting theory and action.

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Community Inquiry on the Web

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  1. Community Inquiry on the Web Ann Bishop and Chip Bruce Library & Information Science U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  2. What is Inquiry? • Creating opportunities to engage people in active learning based on their own questions. • A learner centered and learner driven process. • A cycle where each question leads to an exploration which will then lead to more questions to investigate. • The process of asking, investigating, creating, discussing, and reflecting, and then asking again.

  3. Inquiry Activities at UIUCUnderstanding the inquiry processand developing environments that support it • Inquiry Page (communityware) • Set of overlapping communities • Learning opportunities • Research on inquiry

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

  5. 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. A CIL is most importantly a concept…

  6. SisterNet’s CIL in Action http://sisternetonline.org

  7. 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, .. Communities: NCSA

  8. Ethnography of the University STC on Water (CAMPWS) Telenature Service learning Life on the Prairie DKRC Dept. of English College of Education MSTE Office Communities: Other UIUC

  9. Communities: Beyond… • Sisternet • East St. Louis Action Research Project • Paseo Boricua • Distributed Knowledge Consortium • Computers and Writing • Marshall Islands • Australia, Taiwan, Singapore, …

  10. Learning • Users of the Inquiry Page • Developers • practicums, internships, independent study • weekly meetings • workshops • sequence of courses => graduate specialization

  11. Research on Inquiry How can we: • connect learning & life? • support participatory design? • accommodate diversity & shared values?

  12. Connect learning and lifeESLARP Sample Inquiry Unit

  13. Participatory design

  14. Accommodate difference & shared valuesPaseo Boricua Community Library Projecthttp://www.prairienet.org/pbclp

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

  16. Contact Information Ann Bishop abishop@uiuc.edu 217-244-3299 Create your Community Inquiry Lab: http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~dlinderm/partners.php

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