ABC of INQUIRY – EXPERT

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ABC of INQUIRY - Expert

ABC of INQUIRY – EXPERT ABC of INQUIRY EXPERT “We know what we think; we think we know what we do; but do we know what we do does?”M. Foucault EXPERT: To be or to know… Looking at the idea of expert might usefully be done using BCW’s DIG model   D -Describe what you see: Academic qualifications, awards, published … Read More

ABC of INQUIRY – ESSENTIAL AGREEMENT

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ABC of INQUIRY – ESSENTIAL AGREEMENT “To Foucault, language is an instrument of power, and people have power in a society in direct proportion to their ability to participate in the various discourses that shape that society.”Freedman and Combs ESSENTIAL AGREEMENTS: Co-constructing a constitution… Essential agreements are like collaboratively constructed learning community constitutions. They can be a tool based in … Read More

ABC of INQUIRY – ENGAGEMENT

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ABC of INQUIRY - Engagement

ABC of INQUIRY – ENGAGEMENT ABC of INQUIRY – ENGAGEMENT  “I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a fire … Read More

ABC of INQUIRY – DEDUCTIVE TEACHING

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ABC of INQUIRY - Deductive

ABC of INQUIRY – DEDUCTIVE TEACHING ABC of INQUIRY – DEDUCTIVE TEACHING “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” – Richard Branson DEDUCTIVE TEACHING: Follow the leader… Deductive teaching involves the teacher being positioned as the expert, the leader, the centre of the learning. Ideas, information or rules are delivered to … Read More

ABC OF INQUIRY – DIFFERENTIATION

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ABC of INQUIRY - Differentiation

ABC OF INQUIRY – DIFFERENTIATION ABC OF INQUIRY – DIFFERENTIATION   “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”– E. E. Cummings DIFFERENTIATION: To be yourself… Differentiation is about valuing and … Read More

ABC OF INQUIRY – DEEPER LEARNING

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ABC of INQUIRY - Digging Deeper

ABC OF INQUIRY – DEEPER LEARNING ABC OF INQUIRY – DEEPER LEARNING “…and their minds were opened and their imagination’s stirred, and they saw wonderful things in their secret selves that few of them had ever dreamed of….”– River Murray Mary  Colin Theile DEEPER LEARNING: Digging deeper… Deeper learning has occurred when a learner understands an idea or skill so thoroughly … Read More

ABC OF INQUIRY – DECONSTRUCTION

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ABC of INQUIRY - Deconstruction

ABC OF INQUIRY – DECONSTRUCTION ABC OF INQUIRY – DECONSTRUCTION “Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.” Albert Szent-Gyorgyi DECONSTRUCTION: The art of unbuilding and uncovering… Deconstruction is the taking apart of an idea or perspective to gain a richer understanding of the how and the why of something and its workings. … Read More

ABC OF INQUIRY – CONSTRUCTIVIST LEARNING

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ABC of Inquiry Constructivist learning

ABC OF INQUIRY – CONSTRUCTIVIST LEARNING ABC OF INQUIRY – CONSTRUCTION “Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what was created is a physical object or some mental or emotion construct that lives within the person who created it and is known only to him*” Lev. S. Vygotsky  (*Him is … Read More