Collaboration in Inquiry

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Collaboration in Inquiry
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Research questions

• How can we
• connect learning life?
• support lifelong learning?
• accommodate diversity shared values

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1) Connect school and life
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Evolving uses

• Teachers share curriculum units
• Project website researchers, students
• Student work
• Community health care
• Water quality policy makers, industry, public,
  K12

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Communities of inquiry

• Charles Sanders Peirce (1868), Some consequences
  of four incapacities claimed for man

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One earth

• Relate the school to life, and all studies are of
  necessity correlated.
• John Dewey, School and Society

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2) Support lifelong learning

• technology gt solves a problem
• solution to a problem gt technology

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Problem-solving cycle

• problem 1 gt technology 1
• technology 1 gt problem 2
• problem 2 gt technology 2
• technology 2 gt problem 3

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Inquiry unit genres (N100)

• 92 Public
• 71 Ready to use
• 11 K12 Teachers 20 College teachers 77 College
  students 3 SisterNet 1 Other
• 64 Curriculum 2 To-do list 16
  Science/technology 3 Arts/humanities 6 Social
  sciences 1 Leisure activities 2 Tutorial 4
  Other
• 15 Collection development 3 Pathfinder 6
  Reference 5 Metadata 11 Info resource
  evaluation 1 Collaboration 2 Childrens service
• Data analysis Xueqing Jiang

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Design by use Collaboration

• Create and share a unit
• Dialogue spaces listservs, web forums
• Spin-offs
• Comment feature on units
• Multiple authors with separate logins
• Distributed IP Style sheets
• Synchronous editing support

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Participatory inquiry

• Design through use or participatory inquiry aims
  to respond to human needs by democratic
  processes. Through creation of content,
  contributions to interactive elements, and
  incorporation into practice, users are not merely
  recipients of technology, but participate
  actively in its ongoing development.

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Pragmatic technology

• technology as the means for resolving a
  problematic situation
• Larry A. Hickman (1990), John Dewey's Pragmatic
  Technology

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Meaning of technology

• only by extracting at each present time the full
  meaning of each present experience are we
  prepared for doing the same thing in the future.
• Dewey, Experience Education

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3) Accommodate difference and shared values

• Distributed Knowledge Research Collaborative
• East St. Louis Action Research Project
• SisterNet Spiritual Health Plan
• Latino Student Coalition

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Spiritual Health Plan

• For the Create section --
• I would like to accomplish the following goals
  Once each week I would like to take at least four
  (4) hours of the weekend for my own enjoyment.
  This will include, but is not limited to, things
  like going to the beauty shop, going out to
  dinner or to the movies with my husband, reading
  my Bible or some other book, or just praying or
  meditating. I also will let my family know
  that I love and support them...

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Direct communication

• Any Internet technology that does not allow for
  its users to communicate directly with each other
  is doomed to failure
• D. M. Powasek, Design for community The art of
  connecting real people in virtual places

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Equitable relations, then tasks

• renders the progress of expertise in a community
  secondary to a relational and epistemological
  practice of confronting differences so that its
  participants can come to understand how the
  beliefs and purposes of others can call their own
  into question.
• Clark, "Rescuing the discourse of community"

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Design through use techniques

• Workshops
• Inquiry group meetings
• Retreats
• Email/bboard discussion
• Feedback forms

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Active participation

• every individual must be consulted in such a way,
  actively not passively, that he himself becomes a
  part of the process of authority.
• Dewey, Democracy Education

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La propension des choses

• In the traditional configuration (shi), tension
  is expressed by the curve of a roof
• François Jullien

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Co-evolution
Knowledge
Technology
Community