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He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

-- Benjamin Franklin

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Brainstorm Inquiry Questions

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@Dewey1956: primary interests of learner = inquiry, communication, construction, expression (meaning making) #educon

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Yeah, but that was before NCLB…

Dunkin & Biddle, 1974

Good & Brophy, 1986

Resnick, 1987

Braddock & McPartland, 1993

Garcia, 1993

Knap et al., 1995

Newmann, Marks & Gamoran, 1995

Geier, R, Blumenfeld, P.C., Marx, R.W., Krakcik, J.S., Fishman, B. Soloway, E., Clay-Clayton, J., 2008

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Ask: Questions

Communicate: New Understandings

Connect: To Others

Create:Make Meaning

Investigate: Multiple Sources

INQUIRY

Structured Guided Open

Ask

Investigate

Communicate

Connect

Create

Inquiry Continuum

High Teacher Control

Low Student Control

LowTeacher Control

High Student Control

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Participating in Inquiry

• How do we read and comprehend information on the Internet?

• How do we help students learn the necessary skills?

Different Activities

Different Texts

Different for the Reader

• Internet vs. linear • Easy to access – global• Information galore • Reader control with hypertext• “students must develop learning strategies to

enable them to make the most intelligent choices and decisions about information they encounter”

Necessary Skills/Strategies

Compiled from IRA, Corio, Leu et al, Bitner & Bitner

• Stay focused on question or problem• Know how to search effectively• Knowledge of the Internet• Critical, selective, intelligent consumers

– 6 key areas - understanding, relevancy, accuracy, reliability, bias, and stance

• Synthesize information• Communicate• Oldies but goodies

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Invitation to Inquiry

Eric Brunsell (@brunsell)[email protected]

Elizabeth Alderton (@aldertonuwo)[email protected]

Lucky Mason (@lmasonwms)[email protected]

University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh