Feeling Curious? WPPS 2014
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Feeling Curious?
What is Inquiry?
Q&A
The Basic Process
Question Investigate Answer ShareAction
Question Investigate Answer ShareAction
The Basic Process
Question Investigate Answer ShareAction
U s i n g 2 1 s t C e n t u r y S k i l l s
critical thinking, creativity & problem solving
communicating & collaborating
ICT & information literacy
My inquiry into home made ice-cream...
Was it a successful inquiry?
Did it satisfy my curiosity?
Why did I do the inquiry into home made ice cream?
There is no difference for the students we teach!
interest!
The bottom line is....
AUTHENTICITY!Why am I doing
this?
‘Migrating to Australia’
Web Quests
A WebQuest is an
inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all
the information that learners work with comes
from the web.
Using Web 2.0
Related to students
Forced students to communicate with their family and peers.
Student had to lead their own learning to produce their own book and create their own book signing
The action/solution is already decided for them
Authenticity Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
Communication & Collaboration
Creativity
ICT
Information Literacy
Citizenship/Global awareness
Life & Career Skills
Personal &Social Responsibility
Creating authentic inquiries
‘Say No to Plastic Bags’
Strategic Immersion
Setting up the challenge
What would happen if we keep on
using plastic bags (use thinking hats)
Setting up the challenge
Setting up the challenge
The challenge
‘We should use calico bags instead
of plastic bags”
“Could we share the message with the
school at assembly?”
Investigating
Ideate
Was the experience authentic?
Were the students engaged?Did the experience relate to their
lives?
Was it student led?
Authenticity Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
Communication & Collaboration
Creativity
ICT
Information Literacy
Citizenship/Global awareness
Life & Career Skills
Personal &Social Responsibility
How did these inquiries link to SAMR?
RRedefinition
Technology allows for creation of new tasks
previously inconceivable.
Integrated movies, hot links, software, apps...
Skype with experts, compare, combine and
results via wikis and blogs, publish world wide
online.
MModification
Technology allows for significant lesson redesign.
Integrated email, graphs, images, spreadsheets..
Spreadsheets, graphs, email with others, redesign
lab, hand in.
AAugmentation
Technology is a tool substitute with some
improvement
Word processing with spell check, cut and paste...
Grammar, spell check, cut, paste, print, hand in.
SSubstitution
Technology is a tool substitute with no functional
change
Word processor used as a typewriter.
Word process, lab report, print out, hand in.
Transformation
Enhancement
Challenge Based Learning!
Inquiry Frameworks & 21st Century Skills
Seamlessly incorporates technology at the redefinition stage as well as incorporating all
21st Century skills within their framework.
CBL in Action!
Your thoughts?
Are you feeling CURIOUS?
The Challenge
Let's promote curiosity by using web 2.0 tools that promote
communication, collaboration and creativity!
The Essential Question
How can we enhance curiosity by integrating technology within the
transformation stage of SAMR?
The Big Idea Curiosity
Guiding Questions
Brad and I had a few questions about what we thought the staff at WPPS would like to know about technology
applications that promote communication, collaboration and
creativity. We thought about web 2.0 tools and thought up some guiding questions...
Guiding Questions
Guided Activities and Resources
wikispaces edmodo google docs
audioboo pinterest diigo
9 curious people for each team
Guided Activities and Resources
results
20 minutes
take photos as evidence, during your entire learning process!
Propose Solution
SOLUTION!
Teach a group of 5 colleagues about your
web 2.0 tool in 2 minutes
Implement Solution
Time to put your 1-2 minute lesson plan together.Try to be creative and remember to include your
results!
15 minutes
Implement Solution
Time to teachREMEMBER IT IS A MAXIMUM OF 2MINUTES
EACH.
2 minutes MAX each
Publish Solution
Build a 3-5 minute solution video with your original team. The video should include a
description of the challenge, a brief description of the learning process, the solution and the
results of the implementation.
10 minutes
Reflect
Reflect on the challenge thinking about the learning process on Google Docs.
Publish Reflection
Evaluation of web 2.0 will be published by Brad!
Thank youI hope you enjoyed your day.
Please take a few moments to evaluate the workshop to help me to continue to improve my
work.