Constructivist Learning: Guided Inquiry and Scaffolding the Process

I’ve often thought about inquiry based learning (IBL) and feel like I unintentionally am engaging with it in my own classroom, but I’m often left wondering: what does it really look like? While reseraching the topic, I’ve recognised the cyclical nature of inquiry based learning. By the “end” of the process learners now own new information and ideally […]

ETL 401 Assessment Task #1: The Role of Teacher Librarians

Reflecting on your experiences as a teacher, write a 500 word piece about your understandings of the role of the TL in school. Role #1: Accessing and Assessing Information In my first post I reflected on the IFLA’s report on how information is evolving, noting in the introduction: “The amount of new digital content created in 2011 amounts to several […]

IFLA: Trends in the Information Environment

THE IFLA produced a report on evolving information environment and the introduction of the the report states: “The amount of new digital content created in 2011 amounts to several million times that contained in all books ever written”. Whoa. Mind-blown. This mind-blowing statistic highlights one the reasons that I’m studying information sciences. As an English language and literature teacher […]

Meandering with a Mazy Motion

A prospective teacher librarian's musings on authenticating, disseminating and creating information

ETL401

Constructivist Learning: Guided Inquiry and Scaffolding the Process

ETL 401 Assessment Task #1: The Role of Teacher Librarians

IFLA: Trends in the Information Environment