Transcript Community Inquiry Laboratory

Inquiry Page:
Overview and Demo
Chip Bruce, Ann Bishop
Library & Information Science
U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Harold Kroto
What is it?
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Inquiry Page (communityware)
Set of overlapping communities
Learning opportunities
Research on inquiry
1) Inquiry Page
• Partner projects
• Resources for inquiry
teaching & learning
• Lesson planning
support and idea site
• Tools for student and
community inquiry
• Inquiry in Action
2) Communities: NCSA
Inquiry involves people as
active learners. Students in
inquiry classrooms may
experience anything from
hatching chickens, to a
classroom business, to the
bioinformatics of whales.
Also: Bugscope, EdGrid, VRSavvy, GK-12, RiverWeb,
ChemViz, EADS, ..
Communities: Other UIUC
• Prairienet
• Center for Children's
Books
• Ethnography of the
University
• Library of the Future
• STC on Water
(CAMPWS)
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Telenature
Life on the Prairie
DKRC
Dept. of English
College of Education
MSTE Office
Service learning
Communities: Beyond…
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Sisternet
East St. Louis Action Research
Paseo Boricua
Distributed Knowledge Consortium
Computers and Writing
Marshall Islands
Australia, Taiwan, Singapore, …
3) Learning
• Users of the Inquiry Page
• Developers
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practicums, internships, independent study
weekly meetings
workshops
sequence of courses => graduate specialization
4) Research on inquiry
How can we
a) connect learning & life?
b) support participatory design?
c) accommodate diversity & shared values?
a) Connect learning and life
b) Participatory design
C) Accommodate difference & shared values
Conclusion
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Issues of control, standards, etc.
Generativity: a workshop a week
Sustainability
Appropriate technology