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Community Inquiry Laboratory. Graduate School of Library & Information Science U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. What is it?. Inquiry Page: inquiry units, quotes, & other resources CILabs inquiry units, plus connecting communities Learning opportunities Research on inquiry. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Community Inquiry Laboratory
Graduate School of
Library & Information Science
U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
What is it?
1) Inquiry Page: inquiry units, quotes, & other resources
2) CILabs– inquiry units, plus– connecting communities
3) Learning opportunities
4) Research on inquiry
• Partner projects
• Resources for inquiry teaching & learning
• Lesson planning support and idea site
• Collaborative teaching & learning community
1) Inquiry Page
2) Communities: GSLIS
• Prairienet• ESL community technology centers• Center for Children's Books• ISRL projects• PITA grant• LEEP
Communities: NCSA
Inquiry involves people as active learners. Students in inquiry classrooms may experience anything from running a business, to writing stories, to growing and hatching chickens. (also: Bugscope, EdGrid, VR Savvy, GK-12, RiverWeb, ChemViz)
Communities: Other UIUC
• Ethnography of the University (EOTU)• Dept. of English• College of Education• CAMPWS• MSTE Office• Library of the Future
Communities: Beyond…
• Afya, Sisternet• East St. Louis Action Research• Paseo Boricua• Distributed Knowledge Research
Consortium• Computers and Writing• Australia, Taiwan, Singapore, …
3) Learning
• Users of the Inquiry Page• Developers
– practicums, internships, independent study– weekly meetings– workshops– sequence of courses => graduate
specialization
Learning: Degree specialization
• Inquiry-based learning• Community information systems• Participatory action research• Social justice• Pragmatic technology• Uses and users of information• Literacy in the information age
4) Research on inquiry
• Development as participatory inquiry• Student/teacher research• Foundations: Participatory action
research• Funded research through NSF, Dept of
Ed, IMLS, NIH, etc.
Research questions
How can we
o connect learning & life?
o support lifelong learning?
o accommodate diversity & shared values?
A) Connect school and life
B) Lifelong learning
technology => solves a problem
solution to a problem =>technology
C) Value difference; seek common purpose
Participatory design
Co-evolution
Knowledge
Technology Community
Needs
• Coordination; jigsaw model• Staff support• Stable technology infrastructure• Established presence• Response to funding opportunities
Sites
• CILabs: cilabs.illinois.edu• Inquiry Page: inquiry.illinois.edu• Youth Community Informatics:
yci..illinois.edu
References
• Benson, A. P., & Bruce, Bertram C. (2001, August). Using the web to promote inquiry and collaboration: A snapshot of the Inquiry Page's development. Teaching Education, 12(2), 153-163.
• Bruce, B. C., & Bishop, A. P. (2002, May). Using the web to support inquiry-based literacy development. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 45(8), 706-714.
• The Community Inquiry Lab Collaborative (2004, March). Community inquiry labs as effective community informatics tools. In Peter Day, Building & bridging community networks: Knowledge, innovation & diversity through communication, Brighton, UK.
• Bishop, Ann P., Bruce, Bertram C., & Jones, M. Cameron (2006). Community inquiry and informatics: Collaborative learning and action through ICT. Journal of Community Informatics, 2(2). To be reprinted in J. M. Carroll (ed.), Learning in communities: Interdisciplinary perspectives on human centred information technology. London: Springer-Verlag.
• Bishop, Ann P., & Bruce, Bertram C. (2009). Community inquiry and collaborative practice: The iLabs of Paseo Boricua. Journal of Community Informatics, 5(1).
• Bruce, Bertram C. (2009, April). "Building an airplane in the air": The life of the inquiry group. In Joni Falk & Brian Drayton (eds.), Creating and sustaining online professional learning communities (pp. 47-67). New York: Teachers College Press.