Inquiry Learning Environments: WISE (Oct262013)

Technology to Support Scientific Inquiry: Inquiry Learning Environments

Dr. Dermot F. DonnellyGraduate School of Education

University of California, Berkeley

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My Background - Ireland


My Background – United States


Features of Inquiry

Inquiry Learning Environments

Web-based Inquiry Science Environment (WISE)

Overview


“We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of

its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.”

Promoting Inquiry


Neil deGrasse Tyson

Inquiry is multifaceted process including features such as…

Student Inquiry


• Questioning• Generating

Hypotheses• Experimenting• Designing• Planning• Predicting

• Modeling• Data Collecting• Analyzing• Interpreting• Concluding• Communicating

(Bell et al., 2010; Furtak et al., 2012; McNeill et al., 2011; Minner et al., 2010)

Spectrum of Inquiry Scaffolding

Open Inquiry

Guided Inquiry

Structured Inquiry

Closed Inquiry

Teacher centered

Student centered

(Blanchard et al., 2010)


Spectrum of Inquiry Scaffolding

Open Inquiry

Guided Inquiry

Structured Inquiry

Closed Inquiry


Science curriculum

Visualizations

Embedded assessments

Scaffold inquiry

Registration for student logging

Features of Inquiry Learning Environments (ILEs)

Provide authentic and meaningful contexts

Enhance student autonomy

Support collaboration

Use powerful visualizations

Technology to Support Learning

(Linn & Eylon, 2011; Valanides & Angeli, 2008)


Grading tools

Monitoring tools

Authoring tools

Automated scoring/feedback

Flagging student work

Technology to Support Teaching/Assessment


ILEs – Alien Rescue


http://alienrescue.edb.utexas.edu/

http://alienrescue.edb.utexas.edu/

ILEs - Geniverse


Geniverse (aka Genscope)

http://geniverse.concord.org/geniversity/

http://geniverse.concord.org/geniversity/

ILEs – Atlantis Remixed


http://atlantisremixed.org/#

(aka Questatlantis)

http://atlantisremixed.org/

ILEs – Uncommon Scents


http://webadventures.rice.edu/ed/Teacher-Resources/_games/Reconstructors/



Web-based Inquiry Science Environment (WISE)


Plate Tectonics

Thermodynamics

Photosynthesis

Make any idea entry public to share it with

classmates

Idea Manager


Toggle between Private and Public

Idea Baskets

Idea Manager


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Drawing task and feedback design

Draw Step

Graphing Prediction


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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true

art and science.”

A Final Thought


Albert Einstein

Thank you!

Go raibh mile maith agaibh!

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Questions?


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Bell, T., Urhahne, D., Schanze, S., & Ploetzner, R. (2010). Collaborative inquiry learning: Models, tools, and challenges. International Journal of Science Education, 32(3), 349–377. doi:10.1080/09500690802582241

Blanchard, M., Southerland, S., Osborne, J., Sampson, V., Annetta, L., & Granger, E. (2010). Is inquiry possible in light of accountability? A quantitative comparison of the relative effectiveness of guided inquiry and verification laboratory instruction. Science Education, 94(4), 577–616. doi:10.1002/sce.20390

Furtak, E. M., Seidel, T., Iverson, H., & Briggs, D. C. (2012). Experimental and quasi-experimental studies of inquiry-based science teaching: A meta-analysis. Review of Educational Research, 82(3), 300–329. doi:10.3102/0034654312457206

Bibliography


http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09500690802582241

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sce.20390/abstract

http://rer.sagepub.com/content/82/3/300.short

Linn, M., & Eylon, B.-S. (2011). Science learning and instruction: Taking advantage of technology to promote knowledge integration. New York: Routledge.

McNeill, K. L., Pimentel, D. S., & Strauss, E. G. (2011). The impact of high school science teachers’ beliefs, curricular enactments and experience on student learning during an inquiry-based urban ecology curriculum. International Journal of Science Education, 1–37. doi:10.1080/09500693.2011.618193#.UmSNW3CsiSo

Minner, D.D., Levy, A.J., & Century, J. (2010). Inquiry-based science instruction—what is it and does it matter? Results from a research synthesis years 1984–2002. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 47(4), 474–496. doi:10.1002/tea.20347

Bibliography


http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09500693.2011.618193#.UmSNW3CsiSo

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tea.20347/abstract