Transcript Community Inquiry Laboratory

Community Inquiry on the Web
Ann Bishop and Chip Bruce
Library & Information Science
U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
What is Inquiry?
• Creating opportunities to engage people 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.
Inquiry Activities at UIUC
Understanding the inquiry process
and developing environments that support it
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Inquiry Page (communityware)
Set of overlapping communities
Learning opportunities
Research on inquiry
Inquiry Page
• Partner projects
• Resources for inquiry
teaching & learning
• Lesson planning
support and idea site
• Tools for student and
community inquiry
• Inquiry in Action
Community Inquiry Labs
A place where members of a community come together to develop
shared capacity and work on common problems.
"Community" = support for collaborative activity and for creating
knowledge that is connected to people's values, history,
and lived experiences.
"Inquiry" = support for open-ended, democratic, participatory
engagement.
"Laboratory" = a space and resources to bring theory and action
together in an experimental and critical manner.
A CIL is most importantly a concept…
SisterNet’s CIL in Action
http://sisternetonline.org
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
• Ethnography of the
University
• STC on Water
(CAMPWS)
• Telenature
• Service learning
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Life on the Prairie
DKRC
Dept. of English
College of Education
MSTE Office
Communities: Beyond…
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Sisternet
East St. Louis Action Research Project
Paseo Boricua
Distributed Knowledge Consortium
Computers and Writing
Marshall Islands
Australia, Taiwan, Singapore, …
Learning
• Users of the Inquiry Page
• Developers
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practicums, internships, independent study
weekly meetings
workshops
sequence of courses => graduate specialization
Research on Inquiry
How can we:
a) connect learning & life?
b) support participatory design?
c) accommodate diversity & shared values?
Connect learning and life
ESLARP Sample Inquiry Unit
Participatory design
Accommodate difference & shared values
Paseo Boricua Community Library Project
http://www.prairienet.org/pbclp
Conclusion
• Design: appropriate technology
• Generativity: participatory design
• Sustainability: incorporation into community needs
Contact Information
Ann Bishop
[email protected]
217-244-3299
Create your Community Inquiry Lab:
http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~dlinderm/partners.php