TTT#447 Mapping Inquiry: Curriculum Dilemmas
Channel: Paul Allison
Date: 2015-06-17

http://edtechtalk.com/ttt 6.17 9pmET/6pmPT @m_mcneal @onewheeljoe R. Rivera-Amezola @grammasheri Inquiry dilemmas https://goo.gl/d4ThLW #NWP
+Karen Fasimpaur  and  +Paul Allison  would like to invite you to join a "critical friends" group meeting on Teachers Teaching Teachers this Wednesday 6.17 at 9PM Eastern/6PM Pacific.

We are planning to use a more structured process, a Consultancy protocol http://youthvoices.net/consultancy, to explore dilemmas that grow when we bring inquiry into our curriculum.

So far our "critical friends" will be  +Joe Dillon, +Mallory McNeal, +Robert Rivera-Amezola, +Sheri Edwards, +TERRY ELLIOTT, and +Michael S Weller ... THERE'S ROOM FOR YOU!

Join us in a Hangout On Air where we will discuss this Youth Voices Mission: http://youthvoices.net/dasani and this presentation of that mission that aims to allow for self-directed learning and at the same time provides a map for an inquiry process with this material: https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1f76VZRYBNNmP6prOvuMPxT5OVT12XbRNZlPUlMjg5EA/pub

This is the dilemma we'd like to talk about: How do we provide such "maps of an inquiry process" without them becoming yet another set of expectations and assignments that students (and teachers) work through with minimal compliance?

I've been developing such dilemma-filled maps for a number of years, and we attached open digital badges to the work a couple of years ago: http://youthvoices.net/play Also: http://youthvoices.net/grid

There is also work here that goes to different layers, which we will not be able to address on Wednesday evening on TTT. This work bounces back and forth between setting up systems that work in schools and curriculum and approaches that engage students and theory and educational philosophy:

"Habits of Mind" https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1_s4t9qjsd-4ZOadTE6HfTKaKFXoi0ivHykR6J5Zt8ro

"Competencies" (or what Alverno College calls "Abilities") https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-i2JzcOcNsg952zm3FU0PQXM5OjKqcx6Nxm0i6srM_8/pub

What a "Mission/Investigation" (or Project) is: http://youthvoices.net/mission

I trust that we will be able to get at some of this by looking at the specific mission and grid available at http://youthvoices.net/dasani

This is a bit of an odd way to do Teachers Teaching Teachers because it highlights my work and it asks our guests to participate in more formal process (a Consultancy) than our normally open-ended discussions on TTT.

The work I'd like to discuss echoes what Michael Weller wrote in an email to other members of the "Inquiry Prototype 1" group:

_This year, I realized that I wanted to make my inquiry process a bit more systematic and formal. While I was creating knowledge that could inform my practice, I felt that my ability to share this knowledge was limited; I thought that a more formal, traditional inquiry process would make it easier for me to share my findings._

*What happens when we make our inquiry processes "a bit more systematic and formal?"*

Please join us on Teachers Teaching Teachers this Wednesday 6.17 at 9PM ET/6PM PT at http://edtechatlk.com/ttt

THANKS!