Inquiry in Action in your School Library Learning

Commons

Aileen Allore: Peel District School Board

Karen Beamish; Peel District School Board

Jeanne Conte OSLA; Peel District School Board

Learning Goals

1) A deeper understanding of Together For Learning; Discovery and Guided Inquiry.

2) Collaboration with colleagues around Inquiry in the Library Learning Commons.

3) Opportunity to explore new resources.

Minds On –Matching

What comes to mind when you think of” Project based learning Problem based learning Inquiry learning Research

Table teams are invited to match the statements to each of the above ( strips are in the envelopes)

Minds on -Matching

In general:Project based learning allows students to pursue a topic of interest that may be set by the teacher or themselvesProblem based learning begins with teacher direction (poses a problem) and students learn by either independently, or in teams, solving that problemInquiry based learning usually begins by a question that the student initiates or a provocation set by the teacherResearch is more about gathering, sorting and analysing information

Inquiry Learning Stance

“Inquiry is a dynamic process of being open to wonder and puzzlement and coming to know and understand the world. As such, it is a stance that pervades all aspects of life, and is essential to the way in which knowledge is created.”

The Galileo Educational Network

Inquiry Perspectives

Ontario Ministry of Education describes inquiry-based learning as an approach to teaching and learning that places students, questions, ideas and observations at the centre of the learning experience.

Ontario Ministry of Education, 2010

“Good questions are the driving force of critical and creative thinking and therefore one of the best indicators of significant learning…oftentimes the answer to a good question is irrelevant –the question is an insight in itself. The only answer to the best question is another good question. And so the best questions on rich and meaningful lifelong quests, question after question after question.”Michael Wesch, 2008

School Library Learning Commons

Together for Learning –Vision for OntarioLeading Learning –National Standards of Practice

Models of Inquiry Looking at the new Social Studies/History Model for

Inquiry; the Mathematics Inquiry Process, and T4L Model of Inquiry, what do you notice?

Please take a few moments to individually consider and discuss your observations in your table groups

Be prepared to share some ideas with the larger group

Big Picture

Learning to Learn

Using Picture Books and Visuals to Spark Inquiry -If

Using a picture from this book as a provocation, what inquiry questions come to mind?

Provocation –the new buzz word

Using the following prompts have a discussion in your table groups:By looking at the image provided, how might you use this image to provoke inquiry in the library learning commons?If you were a student what questions might you have?As a teacher, how can you help students go deeper with their thinking?What resources can you share at your table that might provide additional support for teachers and students?Please be prepared to share your ideas with the larger group

Adapted OSLA Inquiry Model Resource

http://library.peelschools.org/Inquiry/

Introduction of Interactive Model

After taking some time to introduce this online resource, all will be given an opportunity to explore the units presented

Questions to ponder:How might you use and adapt this resource?What connections can you make between

this resource and learning and to discussions that have gone on in this session?

Share out ideas

Wonder!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1421914688&x-yt-

cl=84503534&v=LFt15Ig64Yg&feature=player_detailpage

In closing…

“If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I would ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout a lifetime.”Rachel Carlson

Works ConsultedGalileo Educational Network. (n.d.). Retrieved January 26, 2015, from http://galileo.org/

Leading Learning. (n.d.). Retrieved January 26, 2015, from http://clatoolbox.ca/casl/slic/llsop.html

Together for learning: School libraries and the emergence of the learning commons : A vision for the 21st century. (2010). Toronto: Ontario School Library Association.

Wesch, Micael. (June, 2008)A Portal to media literacy. The University of Manitoba. Podcast retrieved from http://umanitoba.ca/ist/production/streaming/podcase_wesch.html,

(n.d.). Retrieved January 26, 2015, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFt15Ig64Yg&app=desktop

Smith, D., & Adams, S. (n.d.). If ...: A mind-bending new way of looking at big ideas and numbers.

The Ontario curriculum, grades 1-8, Mathematics. (Rev. ed.). (2005). Toronto: Ontario, Ministry of Education.

The Ontario curriculum: Social studies, grades 1 to 6, history and geography, grades 7 and 8. (Rev. ed.). (2004). Toronto: Ontario, Ministry of Education.