Beyond Googling:Building Conditions for

Structured Inquiry

Chris LehmannScience Leadership Academy

@chrislehmann

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#educoninquiry

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How do you define inquiry?

Getting Started:

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Process

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InquiryResearch

CollaborationPresentationReflection

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What Changes When You Help Students Develop The Skill of Inquiry?

Tracking Change:

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Inquiry Develops:Choice

PersonalizationRelevance

EmpowermentCare

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Inquiry Complicates:Covering Content

PlanningAssessment

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Inquiry isn’t:Us asking kids questions we know the

answers to.

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When Inquiry is Scary:

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(the blank page)

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Guided Inquiry

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For example...http://bit.ly/SLAPublicInfo

http://tinyurl.com/buildinghistory

http://bit.ly/RamiEnglish11_Sept

http://bit.ly/SLASFP1213

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Discussion:What is something you have taught in the

last year that you could restructure to enable more learner-centric inquiry?

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Next Questions:What are your fears about doing this?What fears might your learners have?

How will you mitigate those fears?

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Really Big Question:What else will change if your pedagogy

becomes more inquiry-driven?

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Using Tech:

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Ubiquitous, Necessary and Invisible

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Discussion:How can you use technology at every phase (inquiry, research, collaboration, presentation, reflection) of the inquiry

process to enable student learning?

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Open Inquiry

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Senior Capstonehttp://bit.ly/SLACapstone

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Reflections

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Reflections:How would a deeper movement into the

inquiry process change your teaching?

Change your school?

What needs to happen for you to move further in this direction?

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What are your walk-away questions?

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