2015 ISTE - Structuring

Transforming Schools:

Building Conditions for Modern Learning

Diana Laufenberg & Chris LehmannInquiry Schools@dlaufenberg & @chrislehmann

Inquiry Research

Collaboration Presentation Reflection

How do you define inquiry?

Getting Started:

Process

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

Tracking Change:

Inquiry Develops:

Choice Personalization

Relevance Empowerment

Care

Inquiry Complicates:Covering Content

Planning Assessment

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

answers to.

How do we create enough structure to be effective

without becoming so rigid that we can't innovate

Guided Inquiry

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

http://tinyurl.com/buildinghistory

http://bit.ly/RamiEnglish11_Sept

http://bit.ly/SLASFP1213

It's Complicated:

Discussion:To/For

By/With

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

How will you mitigate those fears?

Really Big Questions:

What else will change if your pedagogy becomes more inquiry-driven?

What changes if your entire system becomes more inquiry-driven?

Using Tech:

Ubiquitous, Necessaryand Invisible

Discussion:How do we ensure that the technology

serves the learning, not the other way around?

Open Inquiry

Senior Capstonehttp://bit.ly/SLACapstone

http://bit.ly/WynnCapstone

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?

More Information:

inquiryschools.org

Building School 2.0