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Blog Post 6

Inquiry learning is one of the most informative topics i've learned in this course. It challenges me as a teacher to provide different strategies for my students to learn that are engaging. Inquiry learning provides a classroom with opportunities for growth, analytical skills, critical thinking skills, as well as logical thinking skills. It expands the learning process by allowing students to "fail" to "win". I was in a PD two days ago and the facilitator said a phrase "fail faster to succeed sooner" while telling us why we should allow students to complete labs first in science.I though to myself- wow- Inquiry based learning at it's finest. Inquiry based learning allows questioning and eagerness to learn about a topic- you'll find that students love to figure out what they do not know, and they can in a lot of cases, figure it out by themselves. Like scientist, they make an hypothesis first which raises curiosity then they experiment then even

Reflective Searching

I see myself as a pretty accurate researcher. As, I stated in my discussion posts I am known to my circle as the lady that can find anything at anytime using a search engine. Google is the only search engine I use (yes i'm apart of the "google generation"). I found the "Information Behavior of the Researcher of the Future" a very informative read. The article reached many valid points from which I agree. According to the text, the term "google generation" is a phrase given to young age people (born after 1993) or as I like to say "millenials". Yes, I am one of those millenials that's always on their phone, checking their social media, group chatting with friends, taking selfies, etc. Yes, I use my iPhone for everything, where to eat, how to get around my city, order food, etc. In agreement with the article, our information fluency skills have deteriorated because of the abundance of accessible information. I feel like growing up durin

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 Inquir

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