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Inquiry Teaching Model Including
Application Using Web-questing
“Inquiry is an approach to learning that involves
exploring authentic experiences, that leads to
asking questions and making discoveries in the
search for new understandings. Students are
engaged in active learning based on their own
questions.”
Sandra Owen, Georgia State University
Lauretta Burton, DeKalb County Schools
Copyright, 2006
John Dewey and Inquiry-Based Education
1859-1952
“ Learning should be hands-on
and experience based, rather
than abstract”
This idea is the basis for a teacher
as a guide rather than the teacher
as "all knowing".
Education begins with the curiosity
of the learner. Inquiry leads to
creation of new ideas.
Dewey’s Four Primary Interests of the Child
1. Instinctive desire to find
things out
2. The enjoyment of
conversation
3. Delight in making things
4. Gifts of artistic expression
Based on Dewey’s thesis that education begins
with curiosity of the learner, we use a spiral path
of inquiry : asking questions, investigating
solutions, creating new knowledge as we gather
information, discussing our discoveries and
experiences, and reflecting on our new found
knowledge.
Inquiry Process
Ask: Focuses on the issue
Investigate: Adds to insight through progressive
questioning
Create: Shapes significant new thoughts, ideas,
and theories outside of his/her experience
Discuss: Shares new ideas with others;
ask others about their own experiences.
Shared knowledge is a community
building process
Reflect: Looks back at initial issue,
takes inventory, makes observations,
and makes new decisions.
Assumptions of the Inquiry Model
Questions arise out of experience; one question leads
to another
Materials are authentic, diverse, and challenging
Activities are engaging hand-on, creating,
collaborating
Dialogue involves listening to one another, articulating
Reflection expresses moving from new concepts into
action
Initial Description
1. Is your approach deductive or
inductive?
2. Does your plan include a lesson
or web quest?
3. How does the lesson include the
inquiry cycle?
4. Is a combination of all five
question types used?
5. Are students required to create
a question map?
Asking Effective Questions
• Inference (“What do you
know by looking at your
three day food record?”)
• Interpretive (“How likely
are you to put unnecessary
stress on your legs if you
fail to warm up or cool down
for 30 minutes jog?”)
Asking Effective Questions
• Transfer (“You have learned the five
components of fitness. What would you
include in your personal fitness plan?”)
• Hypothesis (“While at a party, you are
aware that a female friend has had three
beers in the past hour. What alcohol
related social behaviors do you predict your
friend will encounter?”)
Asking Effective Questions
• Reflective (“While taking the SAT, you
noticed a student nervously looking at
the inside of his palm. What caused you
to report this incident after the testing
session?”)
What is a WebQuest?
(http://www.ozline.com/webquests/intro.html)
A WebQuest:
• Challenges authentic critical-thinking,
inquiry, and problem-solving;
• Encourages cooperative and apprenticeship
learning; and
• Promotes the integration of technology
skills.
What is a WebQuest? (Cont.)
A WebQuest:
• Includes five steps:
introduction, task, process/resources,
evaluation, and conclusion;
• Engages the teacher in developing the
five steps of the WebQuest;
• Involves students in asking questions,
investigating resources, and creating a
solution.
A WebQuest exemplifies the
Inquiry Model of teaching
(http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~chip/inqdef.shtml)
Student Question Mapping
This is an ongoing investigation and discussion in the process
of creating a solution to the problem.
Transfer questions
Hypothesis questions
Solving the problem
Inference questions
Interpretive questions
Classroom Application
“The complexity of the WebQuest problem
determines whether the application will be
short or long term.”
• Short Term WebQuests
– Designed to be completed in one to
three class periods
• Long Term WebQuests
– Designed to take between one week
and four weeks
WebQuesting incorporates NETS
(National Educational Technology Standards)
•
Basic Skills...knowledge/skills essential
for effective use of technology
•
Productivity...application of technology
knowledge/skills to organize, display, and
present ideas and information
•
Communication...use of technology to share
ideas/information within and beyond the
classroom
WebQuesting Incorporates NETS
(National Educational Technology Standards)
• Societal and Ethical Issues...ethical
behavior in the use of technology
• Research...obtain and integrate a variety of
information sources to answering a
research question
• Problem-solving/decision-making…
collaborate with others in applying a variety
of resources to solve an issue
Introduction
• Establishes the
major problem to
be solved
• Creates student
interests
• Clearly sets up the
situation
Task
• Clarifies the anticipated outcome of the
WebQuest
• Provides an initial description of the roles
within the WebQuest
• Identifies the type task
(http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/taskono
my.html)
Process/Resources
• Specifically describes each of the roles
and responsibilities that students will
assume during the WebQuest
• Includes teacher identified valid Internet
and other resources for students
(interviews, videos, articles)
• Provides guiding questions developed by
the teacher to initiate group process
Evaluation
• Relates to the stated outcome of the
WebQuest
• Provides clearly stated teacher developed
criteria for grading the students
WebQuest outcome
• Provides clearly stated teacher developed
criteria for reviewing the student
question map
Conclusion
• Promotes student reflection on the group
process experienced during the
completion of the WebQuest
• Encourages student reflection on
additional questions that could have been
asked in solving the WebQuest
• Challenges students to reflect on the
quality of their final product
WebQuest Examples
• Examples can be found at:
• http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwche (click on
webquests)
• http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/WebQuests.htm
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• http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html