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Personal Inquiry Designing for Evidence-based Inquiry Learning across Formal and Informal Settings

Personal Inquiry Designing for Evidence-based Inquiry Learning across Formal and Informal Settings.

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Personal Inquiry Designing for Evidence-based Inquiry Learning across Formal and Informal Settings

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  1. Personal InquiryDesigning for Evidence-based Inquiry Learning across Formal and Informal Settings

  2. Prof Blundell says: “the Telegraph article was a complete distortion of the facts of our investigation, which showed that exercise is very effective for weight loss. They completely reversed the outcome of our study.”

  3. How can we help people to think, talk, and act like good scientists?

  4. Personal Inquiry project Three year project University of Nottingham/ Open University Aim: To help children to engage in effective science inquiries

  5. Inquiry learning “Inquiry-based learning involves learners asking questions about the natural or material world, collecting data to answer those questions, making discoveries and testing those discoveries rigorously” (de Jong, 2006)

  6. Why inquiry learning? • Problem-oriented • Learning through solving real-world problems • Relevant • Explore personally meaningful problems • Engaging • Active involvement in carrying out investigations • Contextualized • An inquiry can start in the classroom and continue in the workplace, or at home

  7. Principles of successful inquiry learning Motivation of learners Tools for data collection, discovery, testing Support for the inquiry process Sequencing activities

  8. Motivation • Taking inquiry learning outside the classroom • - school, playground, home, outdoors • Supported by personal technology

  9. Tools Low cost evidence-based inquiry toolkit

  10. Process support Scripted inquiry learning • ‘dynamic inquiry plans’ • on a personal mobile computer

  11. Sequencing activities Analyse and represent my evidence Respond to my question or hypothesis Share and discuss my inquiry Decide my inquiry question or hypothesis Plan my methods, equipment, actions Collect my evidence Reflect On my progress Find my topic

  12. Sequencing activities nQuire Inquiry Guide to provide flexible sequencing of activities

  13. Interventions • Urban heat islands • 3 months, geography, 2008 & 2009 • Heart rate and fitness • 2 weeks, science, 2007 • Microclimates • 4 lessons, geography, 2008 • Healthy eating • 5 weeks, 2008 • Sustainability • 11 weeks, 2009 • Noise pollution and birds • 4 weeks, 2009

  14. Research Design (UoN)

  15. Research Design (OU)

  16. Next stage: nQuire onlinewww.nquire.org.uk

  17. Next stage: iPhone • Calculator • Timer • Camera • Audio recorder • Accelerometer • Location recorder • Tilt sensor • Communicator • Anemometer

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