1. Technology Innovation
for Inquiry-Based
Learning
Dr. Valerie Irvine
Flickr@Wonderlane

2. Me
Then Now

3. Memories of Biology 11
Flickr@Quinn.Anya

4. Memories of Biology 11
• Memorization of Terms
• Being told “it’s not your
prerogative” to suggest alternative
assignments for inquiry

8. Flickr@deanj

12. Salt Spring Island Tour
with Ministry of Education & John Abbott
February 14, 2012

14. Click for PDF

16. Science Education Symposium
At Science World during AAAS
February 15, 2012

18. How can one POSSIBLY engage fully in
student-centred inquiry…
without relying on technology and
connectedness?

19. Flickr@healthbrandon

20. From Consumption to Creation & Remix
From Isolation to Connectedness
REQUIRES CHANGES
and ultimately… HOW WE TEACH

23. For Teachers: How to Unlearn
or Innovate Requires Connections

24. For Learners
How to Engage in Inquiry
Requires Connections

25. 21st Century CURRICULUM
• Increased focus on skills/process
as opposed to content

26. Understanding how
networks work is one of the
most important literacies of
the 21st century.
KEY POINTS Howard Rheingold
(2010)
• Digital Literacy
• Understanding

27. How are we modeling inquiry and
open learning for our students?
How are we helping our students to
document their inquiry and to make
connections for visible learning?

28. Social Media & Mobility
Flickr@Cakehead Loves

37. Grand Yellowhead School Division, Alberta

38. Irvine, V. (2011). Multi-Access learning

40. Via @courosa

41. st @neilstephenson
21 Century Classroom

48. Some contrasts…

51. Flickr@veo_

54. Observations: District Planning
• District “Technology Plans”
– Need to become LEARNING plans
– Support pockets of innovation
• Technology Implementation Patterns
– SMART boards, iPads
– Priorities

55. Observations: Connectedness
• Connections with Peers
– “Best Pro-D Ever”… Twitter and Blogging
• Connections Parents
• Digital Citizenship in Students…. Lacking…
– E.g., EDCI 336 student

58. Reassembling the Building Blocks
has RISK but…

62. #EdCampWest
June 22-23, 2013

63. #ceetopen

64. #edci515