Call for Participation in the ICLS Workshop (June 28th 2010)
Three Perspectives on Technology Support in Inquiry Learning:
Personal Inquiry, Mobile Collaboratories and Emerging Learning Objects. Workshop at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences.
Proposers
Heidy Maldonado (Stanford University)
Ulrich Hoppe (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Marcelo Milrad (Linneus University)
Roy Pea (Stanford University)
Ton de Jong (Twente University)
Heidy Maldonado (Stanford University)
Mike Sharples (University of Nottingham)
Workshop Summary
Our hands-on workshop convenes educational designers
and learning technology architects to author inquiry learning
activities and user experiences. Participants will use a scenario
editor to design classroom and field activities based on pedagogical
approaches such as personal inquiry. Designs will be implemented using
modeling tools, mobile devices and inquiry management tools provided
by the organizers. Participants will gain insight into new
pedagogical and technological approaches for inquiry learning and
discuss implications for their future work.
Audience
We invite researchers working in the fields of educational
technology and science learning who are interested in designing and
running activities in inquiry-based environments. Participants should
ideally have experiences in designing or using software to support
science classroom or outdoor learning activities. Sharing experiences
before the workshop is considered crucial to safeguard successful
fulfillment of the workshop aims and to tailor the workshop activities
to the participants needs. Young researchers are especially encouraged
to apply.
Activities
The workshop is divided into four sessions that include
discussions and hands-on work with the different technologies. The
first session contains a brief overview of three prominent approaches
in computer-based inquiry learning: Personal Inquiry, Mobile
Collaboratories and Emerging Learning Objects. Their relevance in
three ongoing science projects will be presented. The second session
is Designing Inquiry Activities that sets the content and structure
for the next sessions. The third session consists of three concurrent
work activities. In each of these activities the participants will
work in groups running different learning scenarios based on the three
projects. The experiences from the previous session's activities and
created artifacts will inform the fourth session, the debriefing
session. The aim of this final session is to discuss how inquiry based
science learning supported with technology can be implemented more
effectively in schools and what challenges this creates for the
research, design, and ultimately practice.
Participation
To participate in this workshop, please submit position
statements (max. 1000 Words) toicls2010workshop@collide.info.
Participants are asked to anticipate activities related to inquiry
learning that they would like to design and run during the workshop.
The statements should include cases or problems with respect to
specific areas of content (e.g. how to produce healthy milk,
understanding eco systems), envision inquiry learning activities
resulting in pedagogical scenarios (e.g. develop a concept map, run
experiments etc.). Please review the Tool Section to see what kinds of
inquiry tools are available. Submissions will be reviewed by the
proposers of the workshop. People, who have not submitted a position
paper may attend the workshop, provided there are seats left. Maximum
number of participants is 20.
Deadline for submission of position statements: Extended April 1st
Feedback to participants: extended April 8th
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