Inquiry learning: rigor and relevance in your library Iowa Library Association 2008 Annual Conference Barbara A. Jansen October 15, 2008

What do rigor and relevance look like from the student’s perspective?

What do we do to promote R & R?

Iowa Core Curriculum

State Library Guidelines

AASL http://tinyurl.com/3qs2dh or http://library.sasaustin.org/21stCenturyStandards.php Standards in action (draft): http://tinyurl.com/3o26v7

http://tinyurl.com/3qs2dh

or

http://library.sasaustin.org/21stCenturyStandards.php

Standards in action (draft):

http://tinyurl.com/3o26v7

Collaboration Levels of Collaboration

Inquiry learning

Literacy http://www.readitforward.blogspot.com/ http://joanrasmussen.edublogs.org/ http://summerreadinglists.pbwiki.com/ http://library.sasaustin.org/Contest.php Click for CruNet

http://www.readitforward.blogspot.com/

http://joanrasmussen.edublogs.org/

http://summerreadinglists.pbwiki.com/

http://library.sasaustin.org/Contest.php

Information search process (any used) Defining the task and organizing for the search Identifying, locating, and evaluating sources Acquiring information Communicating results Evaluating results

Information search process (any used)

Defining the task and organizing for the search

Identifying, locating, and evaluating sources

Acquiring information

Communicating results

Evaluating results

Which tools? http://isptools.pbwiki.com/