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Community Inquiry Laboratory

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.

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Community Inquiry Laboratory

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  1. Community Inquiry Laboratory Graduate School of Library & Information Science U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  2. What is it? • Inquiry Page: inquiry units, quotes, & other resources • CILabs • inquiry units, plus • connecting communities • Learning opportunities • Research on inquiry

  3. 1) Inquiry Page • Partner projects • Resources for inquiry teaching & learning • Lesson planning support and idea site • Collaborative teaching & learning community

  4. 2) Communities: GSLIS • Prairienet • ESL community technology centers • Center for Children's Books • ISRL projects • PITA grant • LEEP

  5. 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)

  6. Communities: Other UIUC • Ethnography of the University (EOTU) • Dept. of English • College of Education • CAMPWS • MSTE Office • Library of the Future

  7. Communities: Beyond… • Afya, Sisternet • East St. Louis Action Research • Paseo Boricua • Distributed Knowledge Research Consortium • Computers and Writing • Australia, Taiwan, Singapore, …

  8. 3) Learning • Users of the Inquiry Page • Developers • practicums, internships, independent study • weekly meetings • workshops • sequence of courses => graduate specialization

  9. 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

  10. 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.

  11. Research questions How can we • connect learning & life? • support lifelong learning? • accommodate diversity & shared values?

  12. A) Connect school and life

  13. B) Lifelong learning technology => solves a problem solution to a problem => technology

  14. C) Value difference; seek common purpose

  15. Participatory design

  16. Community Technology Knowledge Co-evolution

  17. Needs • Coordination; jigsaw model • Staff support • Stable technology infrastructure • Established presence • Response to funding opportunities

  18. Sites • CILabs: cilabs.illinois.edu • Inquiry Page: inquiry.illinois.edu • Youth Community Informatics: yci..illinois.edu

  19. 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.

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