I have previously reflected upon the belief that literacy is a skill that students need to function in society, after school. (Billingsley, 2022, Jan 8). Information literacy (IL) is at the heart of lifelong learning, a sentiment that has been echoed in both the Obama and Alexandria proclamations. (Jacobs & Berg, 2011). We only need […]
Category: Inquiry Learning
5.4a: Information Literacy Models in practice
Fitzgerald, L. & Garrison, K. (2017) ‘It Trains Your Brain’: Student Reflections on Using the Guided Inquiry Design Process. Synergy, 15/2 How might the TL help the school move towards integrated information literacy instruction? What challenges lie in the way of such instruction? How teacher librarians and teachers might encourage students to transfer information literacy skills […]
5.3a Information Literacy Model Analysis – Links to the workplace
Lupton, M.(2014) Inquiry skills in the Australian Curriculum v6, Access, November. A discussion on the above analysis and the impact of this for the need of an IL model in my own school. Lupton (2014) in her analysis of the Australian Curriculum, recognises that inquiry learning is frequently referred to within many core subject areas, however, […]
4.1b Inquiry Learning
4.1b Inquiry Learning “Inquiry learning is a recognised set of processes, embedded in national and international curricula. It provides an in-context way of achieving the future ready skills present in the Australian Curriculum.” (Fitzgerald and Garrison, 2021, p.16) Inquiry Learning is an actively creative learning approach which begins with an essential stimulus question which is […]