Visualizing Inquiry

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Visualizing Inquiry

• Mr. Nik RobertsInstructional SpecialistTeaching
  with Primary SourcesCollege of Education and
  Human ServicesCalifornia University of
  Pennsylvania

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Developing Themes / Topics

• Your task in this activity is theme development.
• You are to come up with learning-related themes
  that you can apply to all the images in this
  slideshow.
• You are to develop two themes total.
• You will apply only one of your two themes to
  each slide.
• Partner-up with your neighbor.
• Write down a theme for each image.
• You are timed _at_ 5 seconds per slide.

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Revision

• One more round, starting from the top
• Determine if your two themes work.
• If not, revise them!

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Reflection

• Did you revise your themes?
• How many groups report yes?
• How many groups report no?
• What does this mean?
• The more you look, the more you see
• How does this activity relate to primary sources
  that you might use in the classroom?
• Are primary source subject-specific?
• How might this relate to an oral history project
  that you might plan for class?
• Can interview questions and/or a post-interview
  analysis yield subject-specific information?

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Connection of Learning to Schooling

• I have never let my schooling interfere with my
  education -Mark Twain
• Educational preparation based primarily on the
  memorization of declarative facts does little to
  prepare students for todays real world
  environment (Giddens Brady, 2007).
• 21st century learning makes schooling more like
  the process of learning.