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Inquiry Learning & ICT Jan-Marie Kellow

Inquiry Learning & ICT Jan-Marie Kellow. ROTORUA 2011. “When schools put the cart before the horse - buying technology for the sake of technology without asking critical questions about purpose, use and the classroom impact of such tools - they are inviting disappointment.” Jamie McKenzie

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Inquiry Learning & ICT Jan-Marie Kellow

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  1. Inquiry Learning & ICT Jan-Marie Kellow ROTORUA 2011

  2. “When schools put the cart before the horse - buying technology for the sake of technology without asking critical questions about purpose, use and the classroom impact of such tools - they are inviting disappointment.” Jamie McKenzie www.fno.org/jan02/overequipped.html

  3. Research Results ICTs supported inquiry in many ways: • Obtaining, recording, sorting and presenting information • Prompt access to primary information sources • Information on current topics • Decision-making • Home-school partnerships (KnowledgeNET) • Understanding complex concepts • Medium to communicate findings eg. email & KnowledgeNET

  4. Main uses of ICTs for inquiry: • Bringing in and recording ideas • Sorting and linking ideas • Taking linked ideas beyond the subject Source: Pam Hook & Julie Mills

  5. Bringing in and recording ideas • Inquiry stages: Setting the Scene, Task Definition, Planning, Find & Gather, Locate & Access etc. • Activities: define, describe, list, name, label

  6. Modelling and Demonstrating Interactive Whiteboard Data Projector Questions

  7. Video – Wimpwww.wimp.com/saganwanderers/ • Youtube • TeacherTube • YouTube Downloader

  8. Brainstorming

  9. Traditional Information Sources • Fax • Telephone • School library

  10. National Library • Searchable online catalogues • Online Collections

  11. Discover - visual arts and music resources • Index New Zealand - magazine and newspaper articles • Alexander Turnbull Research Library • Timeframes - images

  12. www.tki.org.nz/r/epic/www.matapihi.org.nz/Direct Sources

  13. Online Encyclopedias Encyclopaedia Britannica via EPICpassworded Fact Monster Wikipedia for Schools

  14. Google Earth • Google Maps • Panoramio –add photos

  15. Learning Objects • http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/tour/ • Any Questions

  16. Kid-friendly search engines • Yahoo KidsThis is the remake of the ‘Yahooligans’ site. Search results are kid safe. • Kids Click!Searches about 5,000 kid-friendly websites selected by librarians • Ask for KidsThis replaces ‘Ask Jeeves for Kids’. Searches result in a list of keywords. Choose the keyword that best matches the information needed • CybersleuthWorks in a similar way to Kids Click • Ithaki for KidsThis is a meta search engine which searches several kid-friendly search engines at once

  17. “Unless students are trained to use the advanced features of search engines like Google, they tend to gather huge piles of pages that contribute little to understanding. Some have likened these piles of information to a landfill.” Jamie McKenzie (fno.org) Google Search Results

  18. “You’ve got to go in there and have a look at the sites that mainly you’re going to be using. I liken it to taking the kids down to Te Papa and saying “Okay guys go for it.” They might know what they’re looking for, but do you want them to meander their whole day looking for the information, or do you want to point them in the right direction?” (Teacher)

  19. "Children who are in this concrete-operational stage seek information that exactly matches their own search terms or the terminology used by the teacher or in the assignment. In other words, they are concrete thinkers and have trouble with anything that is not an exact fit with their understanding of the question." Hirsch, 1999

  20. http://www.opoutere.school.nz/dinosaur_pet.htm www.opoutere.schoolsonline.co.nz/index.php?page=home (Public pages, Welcome, Webquests)

  21. Wikis Examples: http://waikinowaterjourney.wikispaces.com/Water+Transformation http://wiredwaihi.wikispaces.com/Classroom+Wikis

  22. Blogs Pt England School St Pious X R6 Creative Voice Waikino School

  23. Skype G-Chat - Gmail.com

  24. Google Docs www.crunchbase.com/product/google-docs 31 Interesting Ways to Use Google Docs

  25. Wordle Playtime

  26. Sorting & Linking Ideas • Inquiry stage: Sort, sift and analyse • Activities: sequence, classify, compare and contrast, cause, parts-whole, analogy

  27. Mind Mapping Used for: • Prior Knowledge • Subsidiary Questions • Note taking • Sorting/Sifting/Analysing • Reporting findings Eg. Inspiration, Mindomo, Xmind

  28. Graphic Organisers • Graphic Organisers • More Graphic Organisers • Yet More Graphic Organisers • ‘Infusing the teaching of Critical and Creative Thinking into Content Instruction’ By Robert Swartz & Sandra Parks (The Critical Thinking Co.) $112.50 - available from Learning Network NZ

  29. Taking linked ideas beyond the subject • Inquiry stages: Create & Communicate, Synthesis, Evaluate • Activities: generalise, reflect, predict, create, judge, justify, evaluate

  30. Communication/Action • Glogs • Podcasts (Garageband/Audacity) • Artwork (Paint/Artrage) • 3D designs (SketchUp) • Posters • Songs • Wikis • Blogs • Etc etc. • Powerpoint • Voicethreads • Photostory3 • Video • Documentaries • Letters/emails • Reports • Plays/Skits etc. • News desk • Brochures

  31. Free Software Software for Learning Waihi Wired Wiki

  32. Voicethread • http://ed.voicethread.com/#home • http://ed.voicethread.com/#q.b409 Teachers Overseas wanting to collaborate: • http://voicethread4education.wikispaces.com/Classroom+Partners

  33. Examples • http://ed.voicethread.com/#q+inquiry.b230401.i1198322 • Wonderings and observations on trout Playtime

  34. Glogster Education version

  35. Wikis, Blogs & LMS Wired Waihi Wiki

  36. Marineland Cloning The Future Letters www.opoutere.schoolsonline.co.nz/ Username: KNGuest Password: Teacher1

  37. Self- Assessment

  38. Rubrics http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

  39. Waihi Wired Wiki Inquiring Mind

  40. www.inquiringmind.co.nz/inquiry_&_ict.htm

  41. "....Computers are not rescuing the school from a weak curriculum, any more than putting pianos in every classroom would rescue a flawed music program. Wonderful learning can occur without computers or even paper. But once the teachers and children are enfranchised as explorers, computers, like pianos, can serve as powerful amplifiers, extending the reach and depth of the learners." Alan Kay

  42. http://www.core-ed.org/learningatschool/conference-book-specialhttp://www.core-ed.org/learningatschool/conference-book-special

  43. www.inquiringmind.co.nz jkellow@xtra.co.nz

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