A talk I gave for Math for America at UC Berkeley.

1. Dr. Dermot F. Donnelly
Graduate School of Education
University of California, Berkeley
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4. 
Features of Inquiry
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Inquiry Learning Environments
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Web-based Inquiry Science Environment
(WISE)
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5. ―We spend the first year of a child's life
teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of
its life to shut up and sit down. There's
something wrong there.‖
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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6. 
Inquiry is multifaceted
process including features
such as…
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Questioning
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Generating Hypotheses •
Experimenting
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Designing
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Planning
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Predicting
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Modeling
Data Collecting
Analyzing
Interpreting
Concluding
Communicating
(Bell et al., 2010; Furtak et al., 2012; McNeill
et al., 2011; Minner et al., 2010)

7. Closed
Inquiry
Teacher
centered
Structured
Inquiry
Guided
Inquiry
Open
Inquiry
Student
centered
(Blanchard et al., 2010)
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8. Closed
Inquiry
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Structured
Inquiry
Guided
Inquiry
Open
Inquiry

9. 
Science curriculum
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Visualizations
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Embedded assessments
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Scaffold inquiry
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Registration for student logging

10. 
Provide authentic and meaningful contexts
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Enhance student autonomy
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Support collaboration
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Use powerful visualizations
(Linn & Eylon, 2011; Valanides & Angeli, 2008)
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11. 
Grading tools
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Monitoring tools
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Authoring tools
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Automated scoring/feedback
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Flagging student work
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12. http://alienrescue.edb.utexas.edu/
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13. Geniverse
(aka Genscope)
http://geniverse.concord.org/geniversity/
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14. (aka Questatlantis)
http://atlantisremixed.org/#
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15. http://webadventures.rice.edu/ed/TeacherResources/_games/Reconstructors/
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16. Photosynthesis
Plate
Tectonics
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Thermodynamics

17. Make any idea entry public
to share it with classmates
Idea Manager
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18. Toggle between Private
and Public Idea Baskets
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Idea Manager

19. Draw Step
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20. Draw Step

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Graphing
Prediction

22. WISE Authoring
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23. ―The most beautiful thing we can experience is
the mysterious. It is the source of all true art
and science.‖
Albert Einstein
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24. Thank you!
Go raibh mile maith agaibh!
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Bell, T., Urhahne, D., Schanze, S., & Ploetzner, R. (2010).
Collaborative inquiry learning: Models, tools, and
challenges. International Journal of Science Education,
32(3), 349–377. doi:10.1080/09500690802582241
Blanchard, M., Southerland, S., Osborne, J., Sampson, V.,
Annetta, L., & Granger, E. (2010). Is inquiry possible in
light of accountability? A quantitative comparison of the
relative effectiveness of guided inquiry and verification
laboratory instruction. Science Education, 94(4), 577–616.
doi:10.1002/sce.20390
Furtak, E. M., Seidel, T., Iverson, H., & Briggs, D. C. (2012).
Experimental and quasi-experimental studies of inquirybased science teaching: A meta-analysis. Review of
Educational Research, 82(3), 300–329.
doi:10.3102/0034654312457206
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Linn, M., & Eylon, B.-S. (2011). Science learning and
instruction: Taking advantage of technology to promote
knowledge integration. New York: Routledge.
McNeill, K. L., Pimentel, D. S., & Strauss, E. G. (2011). The
impact of high school science teachers’ beliefs, curricular
enactments and experience on student learning during an
inquiry-based urban ecology curriculum. International
Journal of Science Education, 1–37.
doi:10.1080/09500693.2011.618193#.UmSNW3CsiSo
Minner, D.D., Levy, A.J., & Century, J. (2010). Inquirybased science instruction—what is it and does it matter?
Results from a research synthesis years 1984–2002.
Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 47(4), 474–496.
doi:10.1002/tea.20347
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