Facilitating Inquiry
Heidi SiwakPrepared for: Reform Symposium 4Saturday, October 11, 2013
The Big Question …
As students develop questions, explore ideas, construct knowledge, test assumptions, solve problems and share learning in ways meaningful to them … how do we help them become better thinkers and communicators?
The Trust Factor
How do you build a culture of trust so students become open to each other and the deep exploration of ideas … and willing to take intellectual risks?
Low-Risk Conversation
World Cafe
Idea DiversityConversationActivate SchemaLow Risk
http://www.theworldcafe.com/method.html
Solve problems collaboratively
Discuss with your group the best way to insert a sheet of paper into a duotang.
Duotang
Discuss with your group the best place on your sheet of paper for a title, a sub-heading, the date …
Conceptual Understanding How do you transfer a 3-D space to a 2-D surface?
Create Flexible ThinkersThe Value LineSee that others have different opinions.
See that your place shifts as you hear other ideas and think in depth.
Learn to question your position.
Strongly Disagree
Strongly Agree
Moral Machines by Gary Marcus
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/11/google-driverless-car-morality.html
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Where Do You Stand on the Value Line?Mark Your Shifts and Explain Why You Shifted
Strongly Disagree _________X_____________________X_________________________________________________________Strongly Agree
Rules of Engagement
Plan for conflict
After each session groups assess the dynamics and the usefulness of the task and set goals.
Use content to develop learning skills.Reflect
Share what you as a teacher observed.
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/document/forms/report/card/ElemReport_PublicGr7to8.pdf
Knowledge Building Circle
Natural CuriosityIdea DiversityConstructing KnowledgeListening to othersLearning the Language of Collaboration
“I’d like to build on ______’s idea.”http://www.naturalcuriosity.ca/
Theory Building
Confirm or Disconfirm?
Neutral StanceTell me more …5 whys Yes … and
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Empathy
Sympathy vs. Empathy
Why Empathy?
http://twentyonetoys.com/toys/
Integrative Thinking
Roger MartinI-ThinkRotman School of ManagementUniversity of Toronto
Opposing Ideas
Traditional School Unschool
Mental Models
We observe this. But “see” this.
Ladder of Inference
Data Pool
Confirming and Disconfirming Evidence
Complexity
A + B = C
How do I get to the store from your house?
How do we solve world hunger?
Causal Models
Story Analysis
Shallow ThinkingAll Summer in a Day
Ray Bradury
http://staff.esuhsd.org/danielle/English%20Department%20LVillage/RT/Short%20Stories/All%20Summer%20in%20a%20Day.pdf
Make Thinking Explicit
Look for Connections
Ask Why
Look for Nuance
See Multiple Pathways For Causation
Find the Hidden
Thank you!
Heidi SiwakTeacherDundas Central Public [email protected]@heidisiwakhttp://www.heidisiwak.com/