I don't think we are supposed to include reflective comments in our blog but just needed to share this somewhere!!!
Had the best experience today. Worked with the Year 4 class on sorting through the myriad of questions they came up with using twiddla for their research task on animals. I had created a word document with the structure of an information report on it, asking the 6 major questions (what type of animal is it? where does it live? what does it look like? etc). Then in created each twiddla question in a text box, and they had to move the twiddla questions into the relevant section of the info report. They then looked at the questions and deleted the unnecessary/repeated/inappropriate questions. What we are left with is a terrific note taking resource!
I promise from now on my posts will be more scholarly!
This is fantastic, Donna!
ReplyDeleteDon't ya just LOVE it when a plan comes together?? So grateful for your sharing of such valuable resources in your blog (can't wait to try out TWIDDLA!) - and I'm sure that this is the PERfect place for reflection. EVERYthing I'm reading about the inquiry process talks about "reflection" being a crucial part of it - at every stage. All that nagging about the importance of keeping "learning logs" that I've been doing over the years actually seems to have a firm basis in research - even before I knew much about "evidence-based practice"... (who would've thought!?)
In any case, I'm wondering if you've found much in your reading on inquiry learning and information literacy that you can relate to your own searching, and commnent on in your blog? I'm still sifting through it all myself, but we are meant to refer to our readings in here at some point, kind of relating our own experience of the search process to what's out there (theories and models) in the literature.
Good luck, shall check back soon...
M