Assignment 1 done

After researching and finding information on just inquiry research using "secondary school" or "high school" or "9" for grade/year 9 I was able to contain 13 resources. Out of these I used 11 in my assignment.



To do this I firstly read each of the articles and wrote down information about them - for instance, what theorists they used, what their questions were etc. I then created a map and brainstormed all the themes that the articles discussed. I arranged them into a number of sections seen below.

Once the assignment was completed - of course this is only a draft - I added in the bibliography. Proquest allowes the user to bookmark articles that you want - and with that list it will create a bibliography. Of course - the bibliography is marked for today's date so that had to be changed. However this was a quick and easy tool to use.

More resources needed

I found about 15 items through searching "technology" and "inquiry learning (or method)" as well as by entering in the search term "computers" instead of "technology" or "PowerPoint" instead of "technology". My documents were then slimmed down to 5 and these examine Internet searching abilities of students, information about inquiry based learning projects, yr9 students, using PowerPoint to display information, student based inquiry using the Authoring cycle, inquiry based learning using a zoo and how to go about it and lastly, using technology to enhance historical inquiry from a Taiwan point of view. This will have to be looked at and compared to the topic/focus that will form the literature review of my assignment.

I will also use the textbook in the assignment, focusing on internet searching as a means of finding information. I may have to also use some of the readings from the unit if I cannot find more articles about using the internet and inquiry, or powerpoint or technology.

So far I have been using the ProQuest database. Today I'm going to use Eric and Possibly Informit.

Try 2

After talking with Mandy and the other people doing this subject, I gained a better understanding as to what I need to do. Mandy suggested that I try researching under the topics, highschool media studies project and failing that that I simply search under highschool students. So let's see how that goes.

1st search

For my subject CLN650, I am required to research the theories of inquiry based learning, specifically in regards to the assessment item that will use this theory. The subject that I am doing it in is Media. So my first search was Sitcom (because that it the particular genre of media being examined) and Inquiry (as it is the form of research that the students will be conducting). This yielded nothing - not surprising. So I tried media and inquiry and again nothing appeared. Then I tried media and learning which has come up with a heap of articles (171 to be exact). Obviously not all of these will be used because it is too general a search and a few will be about the topic.

I did these searches using ProQuest as it is a database recommended for use in Education and I have used it many times before with promising results.

First post.

Hi everyone,

This is my first post and my first blog. I am required to do a blog for my subject at uni, titled, CLN650 - Information-learning nexus. This subject looks at guided enquiry and I hope that by doing it, it will enable me to become a better teacher in this area.