Given at ISTE 2012

1. Beyond Googling:
Building Conditions for
Structured Inquiry
Chris Lehmann
Science Leadership Academy
@chrislehmann

2. #isteinquiry

3. How do you define
inquiry?

4. Process

5. Inquiry
Research
Collaboration
Presentation
Reflection

6. Inquiry Creates:

7. Choice

8. Personalization

9. Relevance

10. Empowerment

11. Care

12. Inquiry Complicates:

13. Covering Content

14. Planning

15. Assessment

16. Inquiry isn’t:

17. Us asking kids
questions we know the
answers to.

18. When Inquiry is Scary:

19. (the blank page)

20. Guided Inquiry

21. For example...
http://bit.ly/SLAPublicInfo
http://tinyurl.com/buildinghistory
http://bit.ly/SLA_SFP

22. Discussion:
What is something you have taught in the
last year that you could restructure to
enable more learner-centric inquiry?

23. Next Question:
What are your fears about doing this?
What fears might your learners have?
How will you mitigate those fears?

24. Using Tech:

25. Ubiquitous, Necessary
and Invisible

26. Discussion:
How can you use technology at every
phase (inquiry, research, collaboration,
presentation, reflection) of the inquiry
process to enable student learning?

27. Open Inquiry

28. Senior Capstone
http://bit.ly/SLACapstone

29. Reflections

30. Reflection:
How would a deeper movement into the
inquiry process change your teaching?
What needs to happen for you to move
further in this direction?

31. What are your walk-
away questions?
https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%23isteinquiry