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Title: Inquiry Based Learning


1
Inquiry Based Learning
  • Heartland Community College
  • IDC

2
Inquiry Based Learning
  • Definitions
  • Inquiry is the process of formulating questions,
    organizing ideas, exploring and evaluating
    information, analyzing and synthesizing data, and
    communicating findings and conclusions.
  • http//virtualinquiry.com/inquiry/inquiry1.htm

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Inquiry Based Learning
  • Definitions
  • A student-centered, active learning approach
    focusing on questioning, critical thinking, and
    problem-solving. It's associated with the idea
    "involve me and I understand."
  • http//eduscapes.com/tap/topic43.htm

4
Inquiry Based Learning
  • Socrates
  • Dewey
  • J. Richard Suchman-Illinois Studies in Inquiry

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Inquiry Based Learning
  • Key Principles
  • Driven by learners questions not teachers
  • Constructivist-many ways to construct meaning
    from knowledge and imparting skills is more
    important than specific information
  • Metaphor is surfing the web

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Inquiry Based Learning
  • Advantages
  • Adaptable to many types of projects
  • Hits several learning styles
  • Hits multiple skills
  • Emphasizes Collaborative Learning
  • Focuses on student examples, knowledge,
    experiences.
  • http//www.youthlearn.org/learning/approach/inquir
    y.asp

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Inquiry Based Learning
  • Disadvantages
  • Instructor gives up some control
  • Demands a lot of preparation time and planning
  • Perhaps more demands on students to be active
    learners
  • Assessment can be difficult
  • Focus moves away from content vs. process
  • How we come to know vs. what we know

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Inquiry Based Learning
  • Four Levels of Inquiry
  • Controlled
  • Guided
  • Modeled
  • Free
  • (School Library Media Activities Monthly, v. 15
    no. 6 (February 1999) p. 38-42)

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Inquiry Based Learning
  • Socratic Method and Scientific Method
  • Observation
  • Hypothesis formulation
  • Prediction/Expectation
  • Test/Experiment/Analysis
  • Report/Reflect/Critique

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Inquiry Based Learning
  • Student Learning Outcomes
  • Content of Subject
  • Content in Larger Conceptual Framework
  • Information Processing Skills
  • Nurtured Habits of the Mind
  • http//www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/inq
    uiry/index_sub2.html

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Inquiry Based Learning
  • Pre-Planning
  • What questions do students have?/Topics?
  • What will be the time frame?
  • What will be the scope?
  • Will it tie to other course work and how?
  • Learning goals?/Level of Inquiry?
  • Media/Resource/Information needs?
  • Group work?

12
Inquiry Based Learning
http//www.youthlearn.org/learning/activities/howt
o.asp
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Inquiry Based Learning
  • Question Types
  • Factual, Interpretive, Evaluative
  • Fact, Why, Imagine
  • Blooms Knowledge, Comprehension, Application,
    Analysis, Synthesis, Evaluation
  • Why, How, Which
  • Inference, Interpretation, Transfer, Hypothesis

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Inquiry Based Learning
  • Question Types
  • Essential, Elaborating, Clarification,
    Irrelevant, Irreverent, Hypothetical,
    Unanswerable, Strategic, Provocative, Telling,
    Divergent, Probing, Inventive, Planning
  • http//www.fno.org/oct97/question.html

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Inquiry Based Learning
  • Possible Examples from Your Classes
  • Questions Worksheet

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Inquiry Based Learning
  • Assessments
  • Self-Reflection on process
  • Journals
  • Traditional Content Based assessments
  • Application to new problem/topic
  • Observation and Listening

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Inquiry Based Learning
  • Summary Checklist
  • Create Learning Objectives
  • Create Boundaries or Limit Scope
  • Identify Boundaries and Scope in Discipline
  • Identify some Specific Content
  • Identify Resources needed
  • Anticipate Problems and create plan B
  • Know your students

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Inquiry Based Learning
  • Summary Checklist (continued)
  • Create questions and question types
  • Create On-Going Assessments
  • Provide Feedback to Students
  • Connect Activities to Rest of Course
  • Use Advanced Students as Facilitators
  • Be Prepared to Scrap this Checklist
  • http//www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/inq
    uiry/implement_sub2.html

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Inquiry Based Learning
  • References
  • http//eduscapes.com/tap/topic43.htm
  • http//virtualinquiry.com/inquiry/inquiry1.htm
  • (School Library Media Activities Monthly, v. 15
    no. 6 (February 1999) p. 38-42)
  • http//www.youthlearn.org/learning/activities/howt
    o.asp
  • http//www.fno.org/oct97/question.html

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Inquiry Based Learning
  • References
  • http//www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/inq
    uiry/implement_sub2.html
  • http//www.inquiry.uiuc.edu/index.php3
  • http//www.galileo.org/tips/essential_questions.ht
    ml
  • http//www.questioning.org/Q7/toolkit.html
  • http//www.queensu.ca/ctl/goodpractice/inquiry/ind
    ex.html
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