Community Inquiry on the Web

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Community Inquiry on the Web

• Ann Bishop and Chip Bruce
• Library Information Science
• U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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What is Inquiry?

• Creating opportunities to engage people in active
  learning based on their own questions.
• A learner centered and learner driven process.
• A cycle where each question leads to an
  exploration which will then lead to more
  questions to investigate.
• The process of asking, investigating, creating,
  discussing, and reflecting, and then asking again.

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Inquiry Activities at UIUCUnderstanding the
inquiry processand developing environments that
support it

• Inquiry Page (communityware)
• Set of overlapping communities
• Learning opportunities
• Research on inquiry

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Inquiry Page

• Partner projects
• Resources for inquiry teaching learning
• Lesson planning support and idea site
• Tools for student and community inquiry
• Inquiry in Action

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Community Inquiry Labs
A place where members of a community come
together to develop shared capacity and work on
common problems. "Community" support for
collaborative activity and for creating knowledge
that is connected to people's values,
history, and lived experiences. "Inquiry"
support for open-ended, democratic, participatory
engagement. "Laboratory" a space and resources
to bring theory and action together in an
experimental and critical manner. A CIL is most
importantly a concept
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SisterNets CIL in Action http//sisternetonline.o
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Communities NCSA

• Inquiry involves people as active learners.
  Students in inquiry classrooms may experience
  anything from hatching chickens, to a classroom
  business, to the bioinformatics of whales. Also
  Bugscope, EdGrid, VR-Savvy, GK-12, RiverWeb,
  ChemViz, EADS, ..

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Communities Other UIUC

• Ethnography of the University
• STC on Water (CAMPWS)
• Telenature
• Service learning

• Life on the Prairie
• DKRC
• Dept. of English
• College of Education
• MSTE Office

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Communities Beyond

• Sisternet
• East St. Louis Action Research Project
• Paseo Boricua
• Distributed Knowledge Consortium
• Computers and Writing
• Marshall Islands
• Australia, Taiwan, Singapore,

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Learning

• Users of the Inquiry Page
• Developers
• practicums, internships, independent study
• weekly meetings
• workshops
• sequence of courses gt graduate specialization

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Research on Inquiry

• How can we
• connect learning life?
• support participatory design?
• accommodate diversity shared values?

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Connect learning and lifeESLARP Sample Inquiry
Unit
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Participatory design
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Accommodate difference shared valuesPaseo
Boricua Community Library Projecthttp//www.prair
ienet.org/pbclp
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Conclusion

• Design appropriate technology
• Generativity participatory design
• Sustainability incorporation into community
  needs

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Contact Information
Ann Bishop abishop_at_uiuc.edu 217-244-3299 Create
your Community Inquiry Lab http//www.isrl.uiuc.
edu/dlinderm/partners.php