Object+Based+Inquiry




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 * 9:15 ** ||  || **Introduction to one another and the agenda for the day**

In partners, tell you own learning story about the most memorable and effective thing/skill you have learnt. Why was this so? What made it so good and what did you learn about learning, from this experience? Did this experience lead to further growth? Where did your motivation come from?
 * Learning Stories **



How do you explain learning to your class? Do you use a metaphor?

How do you explain thinking?


 * Learning Journey to Object Based Inquiry**

Why would we try to construct a learning environment which is inauthentic - why would we remove failure?

//** "Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes." John Dewey**//

How can we tell students what they will learn?

//**"Thinking is the accurate and deliberate instituting of connections between what is done and its consequences." Democracy and Education, 1916; MW 9:155**//

How can teachers tell students what is right or correct? How can students transfer these understandings to their own lives and their future problems?

//** "The educator's part in the enterprise of education is to furnish the environment which stimulates responses and directs the learner's course. In the last analysis, all that the educator can do is modify stimuli so that response will as surely as is possible result in the formation of desirable intellectual and emotional dispositions." Democracy and Education, 1916; MW 9:158 **//

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**// "We sometimes talk as if "original research" were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students. But all thinking is research, and all research is native, original, with him who carries it on, even if everybody else in the world already is sure of what he is still looking for. It also follows the all thinking involves a risk. Certainty cannot be guaranteed in advance. Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not a preparation for life but is life itself.” Democracy and Education, 1916; MW 9:147 //** ||  ||
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12:30 ** ||  || **  //Morning Tea//

What is Object Based Inquiry ? Disposition not a rulebook, creative and structured teaching that relies on co-constructed understandings.

The teacher is the 'Learning Coach', the teacher is explicit and deliberate about the thinking and learning process and the development of the target concept.

The student is the most important and closely observed resource of the teacher.

Look, Notice, Observe- Question Observational Drawing Using ICT Sketchcast.com media type="custom" key="5906233"

Paint, Seashore, or [|another online tool]- there are so many. Interviews, group observation of an object Pair draw- one describes and one draws

Show Video of Demo Lesson- this is our object! What questions do people have, what did people notice? What could you see in this for yourself? Child/Teacher Centred Learning What did you notice? Why can't we repeat experiences? In pairs add to T chart. Join another pair and share Whole group discussion

How can technology make 'Object Based Inquiry' achievable in your classroom?

Organising Objects Online Wiki

See Online Objects

Connections

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//**"To learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence. Under such conditions, doing becomes a trying; an experiment with the world to find out what it is like; the undergoing becomes instruction--discovery of the connection of things.**//


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//**“We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos” John Dewey**//

//** The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative. Democracy and Education, 1916; MW 9:167**//

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 * ||  || ** Make your own learning object wiki

ANABLEP **




 * Resources to find Digital Objects**

Thematic experiences bringing the real world to your classroom []

Digital Learning Objects []

[|Flickrstorm]- pictures free of copy right (creative commons)

Videos from [|Futures Channel]

TeacherTube

Youtube - [|Quiet tube]

[|MaoriTube] ||  ||   ||= //**“To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness” Democracy and Education, 1916; MW 9:110

EXPLICIT TEACHING "To have a mind to do a thing is to foresee a future possibility; it is to have a plan for its accomplishment...Mind is capacity to refer present conditions to future results, and future consequences to present conditions. And these traits are just what is meant by having an aim or a purpose..." John Dewey**//

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