This document discusses inquiry-based learning and the skills needed for participatory culture. Inquiry-based learning involves students formulating their own questions and investigating to build new understandings. A culture of inquiry values problem solving and collaboration. Participatory culture requires skills like play, performance, appropriation, and collective intelligence. Students need to evaluate information sources and navigate stories across modalities.

1. Inquiry, Web 2.0 and Participatory Culture Jennifer Branch

2. Inquiry Inquiry-based learning is a process where students are involved in their learning, formulate questions, investigate widely and then build new understandings, meanings and knowledge. That knowledge is new to the students and may be used to answer a question, to develop a solution or to support a position or point of view. The knowledge is usually presented to others and may result in some sort of action.

3. Why a Model scaffold for instruction gauge for feelings common language for teachers and students guide for students guide for monitoring

4. Culture of Inquiry Vision Problem Solving Is Valued Administrator Support Team teaching Collaboration Champions Resources and Space Trust

5. Culture of Inquiry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMIY58ie2GU&feature=player_embedded http://voicethread.com/?#u74647.b1249277.i6717718 http://georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/791

6. Why Inquiry?

7. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Teens-and-Mobile-Phones.aspx Computers in our pockets? iPhone and iPod Touch

8. Sold over 3 million units in 80 days Is this the “machine of the future”? Apps store The New iPad

9. Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFCLKa0XRlw Henry Jenkins

10. New Skills Play Performance Simulation Appropriation Multitasking Distributed Cognition Collective Intelligence Judgment Transmedia Navigation Networking Negotiation

11. Play The capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem-solving Video games – preschool to teens Wii game nights, board games (Chris Harris) Lego robotics and lego

12. Performance The ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery Reader’s Theatre Playwright workshops and visits – Playwright in Residence Drama groups iMovie workshops and screening night Basic film making skills Loaning digital cameras and flip video cameras

13. Simulation The ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real world processes Extension of performance and play Model City Council/Local Government (Grade 6 Social Studies) and Mock Elections Board Games – Chris (Risk, Pandemic, etc.) Educational games that model changes to a particular situation

14. Appropriation The ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content Copyright information – workshop on Creative Commons Workshop on searching Internet for copyright friendly images, music and clip art Screenings of mash-ups

15. Multitasking The ability to scan one’s environment and shift focus as needed to salient details Information Literacy – helping young people find their way through the “sea of information” Back channeling in a conference – synthesizing, sharing, and questioning The difference between being off-task and handling multiple tasks simultaneously

16. Distributed Cognition The ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities Manipulatives (homework centres includes math and science tools) Lending library of games/manipulatives made available to TAs and parents Volunteers to be checked out – learn bridge, chess, Go, cooking, baking, quilting basics, sewing, helping set up your computer Experts, Guest Speakers (virtual and real life)

17. Collective Intelligence The ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal Books of the Year Awards Committee Book Clubs (Literature Circles) Nings Creating Content Sites about local issues Partnering with local organizations

18. Judgment The ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources Core of what teacher-librarians do Links on website, reliability forms and checklists Using the Online Reference Centre Informing parents about Wikipedia – debunking the myths Snopes.com or http://newmedialiteracies.org/

19. Transmedia Navigation The ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities Follow blog http://librariesandtransliteracy.wordpress.com More about us understanding the networked information world and helping students to know when to use which kind of information

20. Networking The ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information Contributing to reviews on Library Website Share projects, movies, mash-ups, plays, etc. Newspaper, Magazine, Newsletters created by kids Building Social Capital in your Personal Learning Networks Taking a stand on an issue

21. Negotiation The ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms Topics of interest (themes/experts/games) Teens have expertise, too – ask them to come and help Cross-generational programs can break down stereotypes