The information learning activity I am undertaking is a History inquiry with a Year 7 class. To this end, I will be searching the terms: inquiry, history inquiry, primary education, upper primary education. I will be using these search engines: ProQuest, Eric, A+ Education Data Base, Google Scholar and Google and I will also be accessing information from the Brisbane Catholic Education (BCE)website.
Brisbane Catholic Education (BCE)
One source of information I have found useful from BCE is the following document: Resourcing an Inquiry Based Curriculum. It has some interesting insights into not only what inquiry based learning looks like, but also suggests some models, including Kuhlthau's, and states what an inquiry is not. This handout points out that 'memorizing facts and information is not the most important skill in today's world. Facts change, and information is readily available -- what's needed is an understanding of how to get and make sense of the mass of data'. Whilst the students in my research group will be studying an ancient archaeological site, they will be making assumptions and forming opinions about history from what has been learnt from the excavation of this site. I have to ask myself, 'Is this an effective inquiry?' I'm still not sure...
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