SD 74

1. Inquiry Based Learning Network
December 5, 2013

2. Introductions
What interests you about Inquiry / Project based
learning?
What do you hope to learn from the network?

3. What do we know
What do we want know

4. Frameworks for Inquiry Based Learning
Project based learning
Design thinking
Focus on Inquiry
Points of Inquiry

5. Project Based Learning
Buck Institute
http://www.baie.org/

6. Design Thinking / Design for Change
Design for Change
http://www.dfcworld.com/icanmodel.html
Problems
Empathise
Define
Ideate
Prototype
Test
At schools

7. Focus on Inquiry
Alberta Education
http://education.alberta.ca/teachers/aisi/
themes/inquiry.aspx

8. Points of Inquiry
BC Teacher Librarians Association
http://bctf.ca/bctla/pub/
Inquiry Questions Wiki (Langley)
https://inquiry-questions.wikispaces.com/

9. Examples of Inquiry Based Learning
▪ High Tech High
▪ Energetic Learning Campus
▪ Digital Heritage Project
▪ Connecting Generations Project
▪ Pacific School of Innovation and Inquiry
▪ Calgary Science School

10. Next Steps

11. Seven Essentials for Project Based Learning
Larmer and Mergendoller
What?
(key points)
So What?
(implications)