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Personal Inquiry project
Trevor Collins
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University, UK
www.pi-project.ac.uk
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Overview
• PI project
• Inquiry learning cycle
• Structuring an inquiry
• Collaboration
• Progression
• Authoring and customisation
• Summary
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PI project
• Through a process of participatory design we are developing a toolkit to support personal inquiry learning
• Iterative approach– Key stage 3 (11-14 year olds)
– Geography (OU) & Science (UoN) inquires
– Seven trials over the last two years
• Builds on Drupal content management framework
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Inquiry learning cycle
Find my topic
Decide my inquiry question or hypothesis
Planmy methods, equipment, actions
Collectmy data
Analyseand represent my data
Respondto my question or hypothesis
Shareand discuss my inquiry
Reflecton my progress
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Structuring an inquiry
• Activities– A constituent task (e.g. form a hypothesis)
• Phases– Logical groupings of activities (e.g. plan investigation)
• Stages– Temporal parts of the investigation in which a set of
activities are undertaken (e.g. week one)
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Structuring an inquiry
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Structuring an inquiry
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Structuring an inquiry
• Inquiry– Stages (temporal)
– Phases (logical groups)
– Activities (tasks)
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Actors and audiences
• Moving between individual, group and class levels
Class
Group
Individual
S ta g e 1 S ta g e 2
W rite m y hyp o the s is
D e c id e what to m e asureD e c id e o n o ur lo catio ns
C o lle c t d ata
S ta g e 3
V ie w m y d ata tab leS e le c t m y p ho to g rap hs
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Actors and audiences
• Add an activity– For which group (specific)
• Everyone in the class can write a hypothesis
– Audience (relative)• Each individual writes their
own hypothesis
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• Activity status– Add
– Edit
– View
– Unavailable
Progression
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Progression
• Intra-stage transitions– A newly added item can
be edited
• Inter-stage transitions – An editable item can be
viewed
Phase Activity Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Decide my hypothesis
Write my hypothesis
Decide what to measure
Plan my methods
Decide my locations
Collect my data
{Locations}
View my data table
Present my data
Select my photographs
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Progression
Phase Activity Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Decide my hypothesis
Write my hypothesis
Decide what to measure
Plan my methods
Decide my locations
Collect my data
{Locations}
View my data table
Present my data
Select my photographs
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Progression: Control flow and data flow
• Control flow– Intra and inter stage transitions (i.e. workflow rules)
• Data flow– Very difficult to represent data flow abstractly
– We use concrete instantiation of a generic inquiry cycle
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Data flow
Find
Decide my inquiry question or hypothesis
Planmy methods, equipment, actions
Collectmy data
Analyseand represent my data
Respondto my question or hypothesis
Share
Reflect
Data flow
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Information blocks
• Information blocks emphasise dependencies between activities
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Dynamic activities
• Choices in activities propagate to other activities
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Authoring and customisation
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Authoring and customisation
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Authoring and customisation
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Summary: Personal Inquiry project
• Structuring– Inquiry stages, phases and activities
• Collaboration– Moving between individual, group and class levels
• Progression – Intra-stage and inter-stage transitions
• Teacher support– Authoring and customisation