Inquiry Learning
Growth
I feel that the goals that I listed at the beginning of the course still stand. I have already learned so much in this course, but I know that I still have more to learn. Aside from the technology goals listed in my first blog post, I would like to add a few more. Not only do I want to learn more searching skills to better help my research, but I would like to be able to teach my students these helpful skills as well. Because they are a part of the Google generation, I am not sure that they know any other way to search besides simply typing a question into the Google search bar and pressing the enter key. Instead, I would like for them to comprehend that their search terms actually matter. As Miller and Bartlett (2012) point out, “search skills are important: subtle differences in the semantic construction of search queries, including the ordering of Boolean operators, the use of synonyms, antonyms and abbreviates can return hugely different re...
The best keyword used in your illustration of inquiry learning is mistake. The word mistake should be encouraging and reassuring to all educators. I believe some teachers are afraid of failure from their students when approaching inquiry learning, but we must let the students try until they get it. Inquiry learning is the most effective way to foster 21st century learning concepts. We can no longer “baby” the learning process, the students must learn independence. Great choice of words!
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