1. Community Inquiry Laboratory Graduate School of Library & Information Science U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

3. What is it? 1) Inquiry Page: inquiry units, quotes, & other resources 2) CILabs –inquiry units, plus –connecting communities 3) Learning opportunities 4) Research on inquiry

4. Partner projects Resources for inquiry teaching & learning Lesson planning support and idea site Collaborative teaching & learning community 1) Inquiry Page

5. 2) Communities: GSLIS Prairienet ESL community technology centers Center for Children's Books ISRL projects PITA grant LEEP

6. Communities: NCSA Inquiry involves people as active learners. Students in inquiry classrooms may experience anything from running a business, to writing stories, to growing and hatching chickens. (also: Bugscope, EdGrid, VR Savvy, GK-12, RiverWeb, ChemViz)

7. Communities: Other UIUC Ethnography of the University (EOTU) Dept. of English College of Education CAMPWS MSTE Office Library of the Future

8. Communities: Beyond… Afya, Sisternet East St. Louis Action Research Paseo Boricua Distributed Knowledge Research Consortium Computers and Writing Australia, Taiwan, Singapore, …

9. 3) Learning Users of the Inquiry Page Developers –practicums, internships, independent study –weekly meetings –workshops –sequence of courses => graduate specialization

10. Learning: Degree specialization Inquiry-based learning Community information systems Participatory action research Social justice Pragmatic technology Uses and users of information Literacy in the information age

11. 4) Research on inquiry Development as participatory inquiry Student/teacher research Foundations: Participatory action research Funded research through NSF, Dept of Ed, IMLS, NIH, etc.

12. Research questions How can we o connect learning & life? o support lifelong learning? o accommodate diversity & shared values?

13. A) Connect school and life

14. B) Lifelong learning technology => solves a problem solution to a problem=>technology

15. C) Value difference; seek common purpose

16. Participatory design

17. Co-evolution KnowledgeTechnologyCommunity

18. Needs Coordination; jigsaw model Staff support Stable technology infrastructure Established presence Response to funding opportunities

19. Sites CILabs: cilabs.illinois.edu Inquiry Page: inquiry.illinois.edu Youth Community Informatics: yci..illinois.edu

20. References Benson, A. P., & Bruce, Bertram C. (2001, August). Using the web to promote inquiry and collaboration: A snapshot of the Inquiry Page's development. Teaching Education, 12(2), 153-163.Using the web to promote inquiry and collaboration: A snapshot of the Inquiry Page's development Bruce, B. C., & Bishop, A. P. (2002, May). Using the web to support inquiry-based literacy development. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 45(8), 706-714.Using the web to support inquiry-based literacy development The Community Inquiry Lab Collaborative (2004, March). Community inquiry labs as effective community informatics tools. In Peter Day, Building & bridging community networks: Knowledge, innovation & diversity through communication, Brighton, UK.Community inquiry labs as effective community informatics tools.Building & bridging community networks: Knowledge, innovation & diversity through communication Bishop, Ann P., Bruce, Bertram C., & Jones, M. Cameron (2006). Community inquiry and informatics: Collaborative learning and action through ICT. Journal of Community Informatics, 2(2). To be reprinted in J. M. Carroll (ed.), Learning in communities: Interdisciplinary perspectives on human centred information technology. London: Springer-Verlag.Community inquiry and informatics: Collaborative learning and action through ICT.Journal of Community Informatics Bishop, Ann P., & Bruce, Bertram C. (2009). Community inquiry and collaborative practice: The iLabs of Paseo Boricua. Journal of Community Informatics, 5(1).Community inquiry and collaborative practice: The iLabs of Paseo BoricuaJournal of Community Informatics Bruce, Bertram C. (2009, April). "Building an airplane in the air": The life of the inquiry group. In Joni Falk & Brian Drayton (eds.), Creating and sustaining online professional learning communities (pp. 47-67). New York: Teachers College Press."Building an airplane in the air": The life of the inquiry group.Creating and sustaining online professional learning communities