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Jimmy Wales

• “Imagine a world where everyone had access to the sum of all human knowledge.”

• “Thinking of all the bad things that people could do, that makes bad society.”

• “Monocultures are dangerous.”• “Authority comes from respect.”• “..... a good starting point for students - that’s all.”• “We need to learn to contribute and disagree in safety”

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What do I need?

•Acceptable use policy

•Student email addresses

•Internet access

Quick fix

• Teachers can quickly generate and assign separate email address for each student. To do this, just add a + sign and the students first name after your gmail address.

• Example mr.reid+student1@gmail.com

• Each student’s username and password for these will be emailed to you.

SAFETY, SAFETY, safety• Although every K-12 student

must be kept safe, the age and emerging critical skills of primary students make ensuring their online safety paramount. First, find out what your school Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) says about posting student work and names online. Often, students' first names may be published, along with group photos, as long as there is no indication which name belongs to which student. Be sure to check your Education Dep’ts AUP before proceeding, however.

• Next, consider using a blogging program/online tool that requires a password to publish. That way, you as the teacher have final say about what goes online, and you can edit out any identifying information (such as a student's home address!) before it becomes public.

• Blogging in the primary school is an exciting and doable activity. Tap into places like the edublogs.org generous support community before beginning your blogging adventure!

* How much do schools really value students' views?

* How much do organisations

really value their stake-holders?

What is the Inquiry Process?

Critical Creative

Caring

From Michael Pohl Teaching Complex Thinking:Hawker Brownlow Education 2000

Effective Inquiry Based Learning

Higher order thinking skills Co-operative Learning

Multiple Intelligences Integrated Learning

Learning Styles Effective Questioning

Reflective Thinking Negotiated Assessment Criteria

Blooms Taxonomy Brain Theory

Effective Use of ICTs Anywhere/Anytime

Inspired by Mark Dixon former Project Officer Apollo Parkways Primary in Melbourne. Apollo Parkways is the most successful school in the Navigator School Program in Victoria.

1. Define Defining information needs

2. Locate Locating information sources

3. Select Selecting relevant information

4. Organise Processing & organising the info selected

5. Present Creating and sharing resulting work6. Evaluate Evaluating and reflecting

© 2003 Leonie McIlvenny (Curriculum Officer - Library & Information Services)

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“3. Students recognise when and what information is needed, locate and obtain it from a range of sources and evaluate, use and share it with others.”

The ability to find and use information is expressed in the Curriculum Framework as one of the Overarching Learning Outcomes.

1. Define

• DEFINING - What do we want to know about this topic?

Open and Closed Questions

When formulating questions a useful approach to use is to consider them as either open or closed.

CLOSED questions have very short answers. The answer may be the name of a person or place. It might have an answer that is just Yes or No.

Examples are:

Who invented electricity?Does Saturn have an atmosphere?What is web2.0?

OPEN questions usually have more than one answer and there are often many different answers possible.

Examples are:

What are 10 Australian animals that are not mammals?What would happen if we didn't get any rain this Winter?What would happen if we used dynamic web2.0 tools instead of

static software in our classrooms?

Fat and Skinny Questions

Another way to consider questions is by calling them FAT or skinny questions.

“Skinny” questions usually only have a very short answer, usually yes or no answers. They have their uses for recall of facts but don't stretch students' thinking skills. You can add "describe" or "give reasons for your answer" to skinny questions.

Example: When did the First Fleet arrive at Sydney?

“Fat” questions contain more depth of thought and broaden students' thinking skills and are recommended for research.

Example: What impact did the First Fleet have on the Aboriginals who lived near Botany Bay?

Students should be encouraged to develop both ”fat” and “skinny” questions when doing their initial planning.

wikipedia.org?

• an encyclopaedia anyone can edit

• 8th most popular site on the internet

• 6.19% of all internet users visit daily

• a base layer of raw cultural materials

• a self organising, bottom-up community

• the wisdom of crowds

A culture of sharing and creativity which is not based upon market exchange but rather on intellectual exchange.

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2. Locate

• LOCATING INFORMATION - Where do I go to find my information?

http://del.icio.us/paulreid add me to you network

twitter.com

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Goo:

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3. Select

• How do I select appropriate information?

4. Organise

• How will I organise my information?

5. Present

• How will I present my information?

6. Evaluate

• How does my finished product compare with the criteria set at the beginning of the process?

This house has a air filter that gets all the fumes out of the house.

Air filter

Every thing in my house runs on solar power

Solar panEls

I have a pond out the front of my house to attract frogs and I have lots of plants to attract butterflies and birds.

This house was made of 80% of the stuff found on the site

This Sustainable House design is called the super sustainable house This house is a sustainable house that saves power, reduces pollution, saves money and collects its own rain water.All together this house cost $900,999.00 to make and is a good house house to raise a family in.

This house recycles drinking cans then sends them of to hospital's for limbs

Drinking can recycler

This house has a rain water tank

This house has a grey water system.

The waste goes into a compost and after a will is then spread over my garden.

I planted a lot of trees at my house to reduce the toxic fumes in the air.

None of the appliances in my house give off toxic fumes

7. Reflect

• How can I improve my inquiry process?

• So what?

Skitch

• See it…

• Say it…

• Share it…

There is power and potential in Inquiry Learningusing social software in the classroom

Multi Literacies in the classroom

Linking Thinking and Information Literacy

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•Linking Thinking and Information Literacy

•There is power and potential in Inquiry Learning using social software in the classroom

•Multi Literacies in the classroom

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