Talk:Unit 1: Inquiry

Jane's feedback -- Janewilde (talk) 17:47, 30 November 2013 (EST)

Miranda, You are making good progress.

Some things I like so far:

You balance giving information with having the learner explore to make sense of your topics.
You use images to add meaning and make the page visually interesting.
You raise the important distinction between teacher and learner centered instruction.
You are applying some of the principles of inquiry based learning in your activities.

Things to consider:

create an intro page, (moving what's at the bottom of your portfolio to this course home page).
provide easy navigation between your pages. Take a look at what Tasha does for links at the bottom of each of her pages.
Consider starting each unit with a driving questions
might you provide more scaffolding for the doing activities? For instance in unit one you say "Your job is this..." You are asking a lot. You don't want to give people the impression that inquiry based learning is just independent study. You could structure this in any of the following or other ways.

1. "Do a google image search on "inquiry based learning" Find an image that helps you understand IBL and explain how it does." 2. "Go to padlet.com (or voice thread or the discussion tab) and post one example of a topic in your curriculum that could become an inquiry. 3. Look at these three resources and come up with 5 questions you still have about IBL.

I love the second unit activity but I also recommend that you scaffold it by offering some jumping off sites/resources that depict learner and student centered instruction (check out Megan's course for video examples of teacher centered instruction!)