Week Three

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Inquiry 

This week we will explore the inquiry process, how to develop inquiry questions and delve into the structure of your inquiry projects. Critically examining the process for an inquiry will help ensure understanding and clarity.

Plan and attend your first MENTOR CONNECT chat - using the technology you've worked out with your ONedMentor Connect selected mentor.

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Rebecca Alber, Click to link to article about
5 Powerful Questions Teachers Can Ask - Edutopia.

 At the end of this week, you will be able to:

• describe and discuss forms of inquiry in the classroom (teacher inquiry, student inquiry) as it applies to curriculum and learning
• identify the process for an effective inquiry and apply it to the plan for your inquiry project
• meet and have a conversation with your ONedMentor Connect mentor using a video collaboration tool of your choice

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Inquiry Process

• What is inquiry?
• What is the process to follow when conducting an inquiry?
• How do you plan an inquiry project?
• Where does critical digital literacy fit into an inquiry?
• Make connections from the readings, your practicuum experiences and your own previous involvement in research.

The video and images below share a process that can be applied to your own inquiry project. How will this process inform your project design?

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Inquiry in the classroom

A collaborative, professional inquiry project

Readings

• Collaborative Teacher Inquiry. Secretariat Special Edition #16. 
• Inquiry-based learning Secretariat Special Edition #32.
• Making Sense of Inquiry-Based Learning: An Ontario Perspective

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Activities

• Meet with your mentor using the digital tools of your choice. This could be done in Skype, Google hangout, FaceTime, Zoom or other video/audio devices (a phone call can also work wonderfully). Pick technologies that are familiar and easy to use, so critical digital literacies or fluencies don't hamper the conversations you want to have. 
• Share one or two insights about your mentor meeting in SLACK with your small group OR in the large group #oem_connect channel.
• Complete ONE page in our OEM Connect google slides storybook. Follow instructions to create your own page in this collaborative story. You will need to sign in since this is a private space for this course.

Actions

• Post in D2L discussion forum

​​What is inquiry? How can an inquiry approach support or challenge teaching and learning about critical digital literacy? 
What connections can you make from your own teaching/ learning experiences to the readings and explorations into inquiry?

• Respond to ONE classmate's posts​
• MEET your MENTOR in some digital collaboration/ conversation tool of your choice.

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Learn more about the Inquiry Model for Teaching and Learning from this collection of resources.

PINTEREST board with links to websites relating to INQUIRY

Follow HJ.DeWaard's board Inquiry on Pinterest.

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