Collaboration in Inquiry

Collaboration in Inquiry Research questions How can we o connect learning & life? o support lifelong learning? o accommodate diversity & shared values April 28, 2009 2 1) Connect school and life April 28, 2009 3 Evolving uses • • • • • Teachers share curriculum units Project website: researchers, students Student work Community health care Water quality: policy makers, industry, public, K12 April 28, 2009 4 Communities of inquiry Charles Sanders Peirce (1868), Some consequences of four incapacities claimed for man April 28, 2009 5 One earth Relate the school to life, and all studies are of necessity correlated. John Dewey, School and Society April 28, 2009 6 2) Support lifelong learning technology => solves a problem solution to a problem => technology April 28, 2009 7 Problem-solving cycle problem 1 => technology 1 technology 1 => problem 2 problem 2 => technology 2 technology 2 => problem 3 … April 28, 2009 8 Inquiry unit genres (N=100) • 92 Public • 71 Ready to use • 11 K12 Teachers; 20 College teachers; 77 College students; 3 SisterNet; 1 Other • 64 Curriculum; 2 To-do list; 16 Science/technology; 3 Arts/humanities; 6 Social sciences; 1 Leisure activities; 2 Tutorial; 4 Other • 15 Collection development; 3 Pathfinder; 6 Reference; 5 Metadata; 11 Info resource evaluation; 1 Collaboration; 2 Children’s service Data analysis: Xueqing Jiang April 28, 2009 9 Design by use: Collaboration 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) Create and share a unit Dialogue spaces: listservs, web forums Spin-offs Comment feature on units Multiple authors with separate logins Distributed IP: Style sheets 7) Synchronous editing support April 28, 2009 10 Participatory inquiry Design through use or participatory inquiry aims to respond to human needs by democratic processes. Through creation of content, contributions to interactive elements, and incorporation into practice, users are not merely recipients of technology, but participate actively in its ongoing development. April 28, 2009 11 Pragmatic technology technology as the means for resolving a problematic situation Larry A. Hickman (1990), John Dewey's Pragmatic Technology April 28, 2009 12 Meaning of technology only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future. Dewey, Experience & Education April 28, 2009 13 3) Accommodate difference and shared values • Distributed Knowledge Research Collaborative • East St. Louis Action Research Project • SisterNet Spiritual Health Plan • Latino Student Coalition April 28, 2009 14 Spiritual Health Plan For the Create section -I would like to accomplish the following goals: Once each week I would like to take at least four (4) hours of the weekend for my own enjoyment. This will include, but is not limited to, things like: going to the beauty shop, going out to dinner or to the movies with my husband, reading my Bible or some other book, or just praying or meditating. … I also will let my family know that I love and support them... April 28, 2009 15 Direct communication Any Internet technology that does not allow for its users to communicate directly with each other is doomed to failure art of connecting real people in virtual places April 28, 2009 16 D. M. Powasek, Design for community: The Equitable relations, then tasks renders the progress of expertise in a community secondary to a relational and epistemological practice of confronting differences so that its participants can come to understand how the beliefs and purposes of others can call their own into question. Clark, "Rescuing the discourse of community" April 28, 2009 17 Design through use techniques • • • • • Workshops Inquiry group meetings Retreats Email/bboard discussion Feedback forms April 28, 2009 18 Active participation every individual must be consulted in such a way, actively not passively, that he himself becomes a part of the process of authority. Dewey, Democracy & Education April 28, 2009 19 La propension des choses In the traditional configuration (shi)…, tension is expressed by the curve of a roof… François Jullien April 28, 2009 20 Co-evolution Knowledge Technology Community April 28, 2009 21