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Title: The Inquiry Page


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The Inquiry Page
  • inquiry.uiuc.edu

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Support
  • Inquiry Teaching Learning class
  • Illinois Board of Higher Education, Chickscope
    Professional Development
  • Committee on Institutional Cooperation
  • NCSA staff, students at Purdue and UIUC
  • UI Research Board
  • Inquiry partners

3
History
  • Course website
  • Project website
  • Ease of use issues
  • Increasing support for collaboration
  • Shift to community focus

4
What is Inquiry?
  • Creating opportunities to engage students 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.

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What is the Inquiry Page?
  • Partner project
  • Resource for inquiry teaching philosophy
  • Collaborative teaching learning community
  • Lesson planning support and idea site

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How does Inquiry work?
  • Inquiry involves students as active learners.
    They may hatch chickens, run a business, or
    investigate evolution.

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The Inquiry Page
  • is designed to foster inquiry-based learning.
    Participants include community members, P-12
    teachers, museum educators, librarians,
    university students and faculty, scientists, and
    others engaged in a variety of lifelong and
    informal learning activities. The development of
    the site has been design-through-use The
    processes of creating, using, and critiquing the
    site exemplify the open-ended aspects of inquiry
    and social participation that the site itself is
    encouraging.

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A collaboratory, where users
  • find resources to support inquiry-based learning
  • share, discuss and build upon each others' work
  • use tools offered by Inquiry partners
  • explore new ways to assess inquiry-based learning
  • dialogue with others about new approaches to
    teaching, learning, and community problem-solving
  • participate in the institutions that affect their
    lives

9
Elements
  • Quote of the Day Writings on inquiry
  • Collaborative technologies
  • Inquiry in Action What inquiry looks like
  • Evaluation/Assessment resources
  • Collaborative bibliography
  • Inquiry Units Searchable database of Units
  • Inquiry Partners projects, courses, libraries,
    museums, schools, community groups,

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Types of Inquiry Units
  • Lesson plan
  • Syllabus
  • Student work product
  • Locus for collaborative investigation
  • Policy discussion thread
  • Community action plan
  • Multimedia digital library document
  • Pathfinder or bibliography

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Curriculum units
  • Graduate course What are the processes and
    consequences of electronic publication?
  • Reflection on teaching What directions do
    children's interests take in story reading as
    inquiry?
  • Activities to connect science and language What
    does hatching chicks have to do with language
    arts??
  • Workshop on poetry writing Poetry as play

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Library resources
  • Multilingual needs What library and information
    services are provided for librarians serving the
    Latino community? How can we present these in the
    form of a website to librarians and other
    information professionals?
  • Policy statement on a collection What sort of
    selection policy would be appropriate for
    developing a 'zine collection?

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Independent inquiry
  • How can a former language arts teacher utilize
    his or her experience in a library science
    career?
  • How can one create an evaluation scheme for web
    sites focusing on books for junior high students?
  • How can one create a pathfinder to aid students
    in literary reports?

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Community action
  • Create Your Personal SisterNet Spiritual Health
    Plan

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Next steps
  • Partners National Science Digital Library, STC
    Water, Living on the Prairie, East St. Louis,
    Sisternet, Chicago Lab School, visualization of
    web
  • Search VisIT, VIBE
  • Use in courses
  • Collaboratory enhancements
  • Business Technical Writing program
  • Bibliography tool

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Participation
  • inquiry.uiuc.edu
  • Meetings 5-6 pm Tuesdays, at 131 LIS
  • Events www.inquiry.uiuc.edu/bin/events.cgi
  • Listservs all, developers, DIME, research,
    technical, assessment,
  • Participatory design
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