Inquiry Learning

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Inquiry Learning

• What is it?
• And why should I use it?

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Inquiry is

• something that students do, not what is done to
  them, (National Science Standards, p.2) .
• practical inquiry tends to be concrete rather
  than abstract. It strives as much for wisdom as
  for knowledge, (Mike Atkin, Professor of
  Education, Stanford University, Stanford CA
  http//www.exploratorium.edu/IFI/resources/inquiry
  desc.htmlmikea).
• When my students come up with questions that
  anticipate, I know thats inquiry, (Kathy
  Gabric, high school biology teacher, GK-12
  Fellows Program).

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Aspects of Inquiry-based Learning

• Learner centered Investigation of some question
  central. An ongoing problem is examined

• Teacher shifts to being a facilitator and
  co-learner in the educational process.
  Discussion among peers is key.

• Problem-based, project-based, and inquiry-based
  often used interchangeably to describe learning
  activities

• A little inquiry Every teaching/learning
  partnership has some elements of inquiry imbedded

Aspects of Inquiry-based Learning
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Pages of Inquiry

• How do we use bioinformatics in biology
  classrooms? http//www.inquiry.uiuc.edu/bin/update
  _unit.cgi?commandselectxmlfileu12108.xml
• What effect does salting the roads during the
  winter have on lawns? http//www.inquiry.uiuc.edu/
  bin/update_unit.cgi?commandselectxmlfileu11044.
  xml
• History as inquiry
• http//www.inquiry.uiuc.edu/bin/update_unit.cgi?co
  mmandselectxmlfileu11768.xml
• http//www.inquiry.uiuc.edu/bin/update_unit.cgi?co
  mmandselectxmlfileu11832.xml
• http//www.inquiry.uiuc.edu/bin/update_unit.cgi?co
  mmandselectxmlfileu11847.xml
• How is my May Project going?
• http//www.inquiry.uiuc.edu/bin/update_unit.
  cgi?commandselectxmlfileu11824.xml
• Poetry as Play Creative process as inquiry
• http//www.inquiry.uiuc.edu/bin/update_unit.cgi?co
  mmandselectxmlfileu10225.xml

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Inquiry and Digital Libraries

• students need to be actively involved in their
  learning. The teachers (librarians) roleis
  to engage the students in inquiry, so that
  students learn by finding their own answers to
  questions,
• Jane Bandy Smith, from Achieving a
  Curriculum-based Library Media Center Program
  (Chicago ALA), 18

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Lets go find some questions!http//www.inquiry
.uiuc.edu/bin/update_unit.cgi?commandselectxmlfi
leu12562.xml