In a world where knowledge is more a verb than a noun how do we foster deep learning in our students? Good questions cause thinking. Unfortunately, many of the questions regularly asked in classrooms focus on knowledge as a noun. This presentation will explore inquiry as a pedagogical stance and the effective use of thinking and learning tools in the classroom. We will work together to model teaching practices that lead to students co-constructing a networked (real world) rather than hierarchical (artificial) understanding of their world regardless of grade level or discipline. Participants will leave this workshop with a toolkit of research based questioning and thinking strategies they can begin using with their students tomorrow.

1. WonderPermission to
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Darren Kuropatwa
Building Learning Communities Conference
Boston, MA; July 2017

2. Hello. My name is …
Glad to be your partner today. :-)

4. Blended Learning
Cooperative Learning
Differentiated Instruction
Direct Instruction
Inquiry Learning
Modelling
Metacognition & Self-Regulation
Play Based Learning
Problem Based Learning
Project Based Learning
Understanding by Design
Universal Design for Learning
Inquiry

5. most talking is growing
Marcia L.Tate
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The person doing the
the most dendrites.

6. “The best teachers have teeth
marks on their tongues.”
Alfie Kohn
Mike...biting off his tongue / Sandra
Leong / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

8. 3 ideas I have about inquiry learning…

10. the strongest idea we have
about inquiry learning…
your idea goes here
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your strongest idea goes here

11. the strongest idea we have about inquiry learning…

13. the strongest idea we have
about inquiry learning…
your idea goes here
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your strongest idea goes here

14. What questions do you have
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15. inquiry

16. We can't confuse covering
content with causing learning.
Grant Wiggins
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18. What’s going on in this picture?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can you find?

19. 3 Thoughts/Ideas
2 Questions
1 Analogy
3-2-1 BRIDGEA thinking routine for activating prior knowledge and making connections
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20. analogy
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Life is like a race. The one
who keeps running wins the
race and the one who stops to
catch a breath loses.
Just as a sword is the weapon
of a warrior, a pen is the
weapon of a writer.
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How a doctor diagnoses
diseases is like how a
detective investigates crimes.
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Just as a caterpillar comes
out of its cocoon, so we must
come out of our comfort zone.
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21. 3 Thoughts/Ideas
2 Questions
1 Analogy
3-2-1 BRIDGEA thinking routine for activating prior knowledge and making connections
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22. What do you see?
What do you think about that?
What does it make you wonder?

24. I see …
I think …
I wonder …

25. Take Turns & Share

26. Victim Fights Back In
NSW Sydney School
Victim of school
bullying a web hero

27. bullies fear
the light
and it’s so
easy to shine
a light ...
10sec
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29. 3 new Thoughts/Ideas
2 new Questions
1 new Analogy
3-2-1 BRIDGEA thinking routine for activating prior knowledge and making connections
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3-2-1 BRIDGE
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30. BRIDGE
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Now I think …
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I used to think …

31. Stop Motion Video
15 seconds

35. why inquiry?

36. how do we learn
anything …

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Uncover Errors
and
Misconceptions

39. Teachers must engage students’ preconceptions
Students come to the classroom with conceptions of numbers grounded in
their whole-number learning that lead them astray in the world of rational
numbers; e.g. multiplying always makes numbers bigger.
x =
(Principle 1)
Students’ Errors and Misconceptions
Based on Previous Learning

40. learner
centred
instructional
design
encourage attention
from NAP: How Students Learn
to preconceptions
and begin instruction
with what students
think and know

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Knowledge is
Networked, not
Hierarchical

42. 3/4
3
4
3:4
75%
0.75
$0.75

43. Understanding requires factual knowledge
and conceptual frameworks
The Knowledge Network:
New Concepts and New Applications(Principle 2)

44. focus on what
from NAP: How Students Learn
is to be taught,
why it is taught,
and what mastery
looks like
knowledge
centred
instructional
design

45. Jack is looking at Anne but Anne is looking at George.
Jack is married but George is not.
Is a married person looking at an unmarried person?
A) Yes
B) No
C) Cannot be determined

46. Jack is looking at Anne but Anne is looking at George.
Jack is married but George is not.
Is a married person looking at an unmarried person?
Jack
(married)
Anne George
(unmarried)
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“We do not learn
from experience...
we learn from
reflecting on
experience.”
- John Dewey

48. eror analysis

49. Find the error ...

50. confirmation
bias

51. Learning is facilitated through the
use of metacognitive strategies ...
Principle 3
A metacognitive approach
enables student self-monitoring

52. provide frequent
from NAP: How Students Learn
opportunities to make
students’ thinking and
learning visible as a guide
for both the teacher &
the student in learning
and instruction
assessment
centred
instructional
design

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Not Hands Off,
Very Hands With
- Kath Murdoch

54. community

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culture of curiosity

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culture of curiosity

59. encourage a culture
from NAP: How Students Learn
of questioning,
respect, and
risk taking
community
centred
instructional
design

60. knowledge
networks
metacognition
community
preconceptions

61. explore
inquiry
provoke
reflect

62. explore
inquiry
provoke reflect:: ::
preconceptions networks reflection
all while making thinking visible

64. What’s going on in this picture?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can you find?
The 3 Questions

65. Routines exist in all classrooms; they are the patterns by
which we operate and go about the job of learning and
working together in a classroom environment. A routine can
be thought of as any procedure, process, or pattern of action
that is used repeatedly to manage and facilitate the
accomplishment of specific goals or tasks. Classrooms have
routines that serve to manage student behaviour and
interactions, to organizing the work of learning, and to
establish rules for communication and discourse.
Classrooms also have routines that structure the way
students go about the process of learning. These learning
routines can be simple structures, such as reading from a
text and answering the questions at the end of the chapter,
or they may be designed to promote students' thinking, such
as asking students what they know, what they want to know,
and what they have learned as part of a unit of study.

66. 3 Thoughts/Ideas
2 Questions
1 Analogy
3-2-1 BRIDGEA thinking routine for activating prior knowledge and making connections
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67. I see …
I think …
I wonder …

68. Think - Pair - Share

69. your strongest idea goes here

70. ExtendConnect Challenge
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71. Connect // Extend // Challenge
How are the ideas and information presented
today CONNECTED to what you already knew?
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72. Connect // Extend // Challenge
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What new ideas did you get that EXTENDED
or pushed your thinking in new directions?

73. Connect // Extend // Challenge
What is still CHALLENGING or confusing for
you to get your mind around? What questions,
wonderings or puzzles do you now have?
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74. ExtendConnect Challenge
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75. what we’ve learned & need to learn
about inquiry learning…
your idea is here
connect challenge
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extend

76. connect extend challenge
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How are the
ideas and
information
presented today
CONNECTED to
what you already
knew?
What new ideas
did you get that
EXTENDED or
pushed your
thinking in new
directions?
What is still
CHALLENGING
or confusing for
you to get your
mind around?
What questions,
wonderings or
puzzles do you
now have?
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77. The practices and activities in
which people engage while
learning shape what is
learned.
Principle 6
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78. process
Making pottery 2
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product

79. why inquiry?
that’s how we learn, and …

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82. thank you
Natalie Merchant - Kind and Generous
@dkuropatwa dkuropatwa@gmail.com j.mp/whilewalking