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What is Inquiry Based Learning?
Inquiry based learning is mainly involving the learner and leading him to
understand. Inquiry here implies on the possessing skills and attitude of
yours, which allows you to ask questions about new resolutions and issues while
you are gaining new information.
Dictionary
meaning of Inquiry is seeking
knowledge
, information, or truth
through questioning. All the people carry on with this process throughout
their life, even if you might find it not very much reflecting. For example,
infants use inquiry to build their sense of the world, the babies turn towards
voices, put things in their mouths, grasp things, and observe faces that come
near. The inquiry process is mainly the gathering of data and information and
applying them to senses like smelling, tasting, touching, hearing and
seeing.
Very sadly, our traditional ways of teaching discourage the process of
inquiry. It makes the student get less prone to asking questions as they move
through their grade levels, they are just expected to listen and repeat the
expected answers. This is due to the lack of understanding of inquiry based
learning. Inquiry based learning is not just asking questions, but it is a way
of converting data and information into useful knowledge. A useful application
of inquiry based learning involves many different factors, which are, a
different level of questions, a focus for questions, a framework for questions,
and a context for questions.
Much mesmerizing information and facts are readily available, which needs an
understanding of how to make sense out of it and turn it into useful knowledge.
The teachers must be able to analyze that he or she does into only have to
accumulate information and data but also have to generate it into useful
knowledge, which can be easily done through inquiry based learning. Our
country's success depending upon natural resources is the past; the future of
our country's success now depends upon the workforce which works smarter.
There are four essential elements on which inquiry based learning
depends
Brandie Payne on 24 Feb 12This website provides power point presentations about interactive science notebooks.
Sharon Hicks on 01 Mar 12I was interested to read this article about interactive notebooks. We do science notebooking in our school. I try to modify it to a lifeskills level. I like the idea of vocabulary briefcase. I also like the comment about teachers should only write in blue or black ink. I think that it is important that the students doesn't think it is being "graded" that way they aren't afraid to share ideas.
Grace Chandler on 03 Mar 12My school is a large advocate of interactive notebooks. I like them alot for math it makes students have to show ownership for their notes. From this article I enjoyed reading about the vocabulary brief case. I think I will try to modify that idea for math. :)
