1. WESTPORT NORTH SCHOOL PLD DAY2013INQUIRY LEARNING THROUGH
E-LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
2. Ko wai au? I am a partner, mother, grandmother, teacher,
friendand a learner in all of parts of my world.Kathy BakerEmail:
[email protected]: ChristchurchPhone: (03) 379
6627Mobile: 027 383 3071 3. Inquiry learning through eLearning
opportunities The Why? The How? The What?I wish to acknowledge a
colleague, Lyn Ross, a CentralSouth BeL Facilitator, for her
support and encouragementrelated to this presentation. 4. Why do
Inquiry Learning? NZ Curriculum vision For our young people to be:
confident connected actively involved lifelong learnersand able to
take charge of their own learning 5. Inquiry Learning An event
occurs or interest is sparked Do your research (Information
saturation) Work out the real problem or focus (Definethe task or
ask the big question and actionquestions) Brainstorm solution(s)
Choose the best solution(s) Put it/them into action 6. To start an
inquiry, an event occurs whichdraws the learners attention to
something Act of nature News story newspaper, TV,Internet Local
community issue Event Personal circumstances Clever teaching 7.
Inquiry Learning Process Ignite, investigate, explore(become a mini
expert) Wonder and ask (key words, bigquestion, action questions)
Organise, apply (sort your Reflectinformation, decide on resources
andkey steps) Action (put your plan into action) 8. Levels of
Inquiry Teacher directed Learning how to do Inquiry Learning
Teaching your students how to do it. Guided Co-constructing
questions Student driven (Pure Inquiry) 9. eLearning opportunities
10. eLearning and pedagogy NZ Curriculumpage 36e-Learning may:
assist the making of connections facilitate shared learning assist
in the creation of supportive learningenvironments enhance
opportunities to learn provide opportunities for students to take
their learningfurther 11. GarageBand, VoiceAudacity, Vocaroo,
Fotobabble, iPhoto Students recording information Interviews Book
reviews Narration for presentations Making Podcasts 12. Examples of
Student PresentationsSpeechAdvertisement 13. Examples of Student
Graphics used to support their writingand their animations. 14.
Blue / Green screening Put yourself in another location Bluescreen
Greenscreen yourself into a phototo draw attention to an inquiry
concept 15. VideosYouTube 16. Orcas Attack Seal Should the people
on the beach have tried tochange the outcome? How? What would
theresult have been? Write a summary Use Google docs to co-create
17. Internet 18. Word Cloudshttp://wordle.netwww.abcya.com 19.
SkypeVoice or text Between classes (sharing learning) With the
principal Talking to an expert Global contacts 20. Blog 21. NextTry
some of the ideas on the next slide outThen Open a Sticky or Post
It on your desktop Thinking about a learning intention, set an
eLearning goal touse as part of an inquiry 22. Finally Confident
Connected Actively involved Lifelong learners who are able to
takecharge of their own learning 23. What new eLearning idea will
youuse in your classroom tomorrow?
