Using Technology to Promote InquiryDavid Jakes

Our Digital DNA

On Inquiry: "If a single word had to be chosen to describe the goals of science educators during the 30-year period that began in the late 1950s, it would have to be INQUIRY."G.E . DeBoer 1991

What is the relationship of inquiry to scientific literacy?

64% Content Creators | 30% active blog 54% read | 25% produce video 75% view | 25% Podcast consumers | 60% Post Photos | 73% have mp3 players | 33% share files peer to peer | 90% use cloud computing | 68% use IM | 75% have a cell phone | 97% play video gamesSource: PEW, January 14, 2009

What does this look like? How can this translate into practice? Should it?

40 million Americans rely on the Internet as their primary source for news and information about science.The Internet as a Resource for News and Information about Science, 2006

The Internet is the source to which people would turn first if they need information on a specific scientific topic.The Internet as a Resource for News and Information about Science, 2006

67% Stem Cell Research, 11% Library59% Climate Change, 12% Library42% Origins of Life, 19% Library

Half of all Internet users have been to a Web site which specializes in scientific content.The Internet as a Resource for News and Information about Science, 2006

National Geographic, NASA, USGS, Smithsonian

The Internet is a research tool for 87% of online users. That translates into 128 million Americans.The Internet as a Resource for News and Information about Science, 2006

What happens when learning is independent of time, space and place?

How permeable is your classroom?

Encyclopedia of Life

How does this use support literacy and what it means to be well-educated in the 21st Century?

How does this technology add value to the learning experience? How does it extend the learning experience?

How can I structure my lesson so that I can achieve the first two ideas?

How will I evaluate the learning and how will I evaluate the technology?