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Inquiry learning: Alignment across the the Australian Curriculum Dr Mandy Lupton Co-ordinator: Master of Education (teacher-librarianship) Queensland University of Technology mandy.lupton@qut.edu.au Twitter: LuptonMandy http://inquirylearningblog.wordpress.com/ Inquiry learning: Alignment across the Australian Curriculum v6
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Analysis framework Questioning Guidance (teacher vs student direction) Information literacy (seeking, locating, accessing, evaluating and using information) Stages Discipline specific vs generic http://inquirylearningblog.wordpress.com/
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How is inquiry represented in the Australian Curriculum? Inquiry skills are explicit in: Science F-12 History F-12 Geography F-12 Civics and Citizenship 3-10 Economics and Business 5-10 Critical & Creative Thinking (Inquiring, identifying, exploring and organising information and ideas) ICT (Investigating with ICT) Inquiry is hinted at in Mathematics: F-10 - Data representation and interpretation - Stats & probability Senior General Maths – statistical investigation
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A bird’s eye view http://pixabay.com/en/seagull-bird-beach-bill-nature-183303/
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Inquiry strands questions, information literacy, evaluating information
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Lack of alignment across year levels Evaluation of information: Year 5 Geography Year 5 Civics & Citizenship Year 6 ICT Year 7 History Year 8 CCT Year 9 Science Terms: Science: pose, identify, formulate, construct History: pose, identify, formulate, frame Geography: pose, develop, formulate Economics & Business: develop Civics & Citizenship: pose, develop Scaffolding sequence: e.g. Year 7 Science students 'individually plan', Year 9 Geography students' independently design' investigations
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Questioning
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Disciplinarity
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F-6: finding, selecting & accessing sources
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F-6 - independently gathering/searching
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7-10: finding, selecting & accessing information
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Acknowledging sources
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F-6: evaluation of sources
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7-10: evaluation of sources
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F-12: usefulness
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7-12: validity
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7-12: reliability
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7-12:bias
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F-6: Using information to…
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7-10: Using information to..
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11-12: Use information to…
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