Blog Post 2

The video "Infowhelm"and the article "My Daily Info-Wrangling" routine had a couple of main point similarities that grasped the eye. Both resources expressed relevance to information fluency and expressed the how us (humans) are bombarded with information- from our emails, texts, social media, television, etc. . The expectation of us to "learn" has evolved to simply memorization due to the fact that we are receiving so much information has created a different era of learning, which connects us to the next resource-" Creating Classrooms: 8 Ways into Inquiry Learning". These resources presented exposed the correlation between information fluency and inquiry learning. In my opinion, in order to have be predominately fluent in information we must teach students using inquiry based learning strategies. Understanding the concept of inquiry learning was one of my learning goals of this course and the article "Creating Classrooms: 8 Ways into Inquiry Learning" presented 8 techniques that I see to be very useful in my classroom.