Transcript Curriculum units - Community informatics

The Inquiry Page
inquiry.uiuc.edu
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
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History
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Course website
Project website
Ease of use issues
Increasing support for collaboration
Shift to community focus
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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 and the resources
within it should exemplify the open-ended aspects of
inquiry and social participation that the site itself is
encouraging.
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A collaboratory, where users
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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
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Elements
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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
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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
• Weekly meeting: Tuesday, 5:00-6:00 pm at 131
LIS, 501 E. Daniel
• Events: www.inquiry.uiuc.edu/bin/events.cgi
• Listservs: all, developers, DIME, research,
technical, assessment, …
• Participatory design
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