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Facilitator's Page - Proposed agenda for Winter 2011
2 days: 1st with regular teams and 2nd with SY reps in city. Same day - different rooms in rural We expect about 3 people per division, more can register and we will accept them if there is room


 * Goal**
 * Teachers leave the session with a far better sense of the different ways that inquiry can look. Inquiry it is an environment created in the classroom, an attitude, etc.


 * K-8 Winter Session Agenda**

Morning (8:30 - 11:45) (times are approximate)

>>>> http://disruptiveinnovators.wikispaces.com/Constructing+Understanding+Through+Inquiry
 * 9 am (John) Welcome and Introductions, Goals and Agendas for the day.
 * Split groups into K-8 and SYs
 * 9:20 - 10 (**very latest**) am (Roz) Share what is happening in your division this year in terms of LwICT? Challenges, success, reporting, questions? Informal: think, pair and share (Michelle takes notes)
 * An Inquiry about Inquiry
 * 10:10 am (Michelle) Introduction to what we are doing
 * 10:10 - 11: **(with coffee break in here**) am **Activate**: what they already know about inquiry, what does it mean to you, what does it look like in different subject areas
 * (Roz) Your comfort level with inquiry in the classroom (showing of hands)
 * (Michelle) Anticipation Guide (partner talk and a group talk) - by level EYs, MYs
 * (Roz & Michelle) Our Big Questions (think, pair, share) - record questions in inspiration, then sort into categories and then label the categories (whole group discussion) [username: lwict password: literacywithict URL: wallwisher.com/wall/lwict2011] Our Questions: What does inquiry look like in a classroom where every student has a laptop or other device? How do you engage your students to work collaboratively in a 1-1 environment?
 * **Acquire**: do the inquiry with strategic teaching about inquiry as a "stance" and an environment you create with your students in your classroom and how you get started with inquiry with math and science (Grade 8 Lake Winnipeg Water Stewardship - @http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/esd/water/index.html)
 * 11: - 11:45 am (Michelle) What does quality inquiry look like, sound like, feel like? Let's build criteria together. (ind., share, then compare at levels) Return to criteria throughout the day. "What are we thinking now?"
 * (Roz) Build Common Understandings: Read together "What is Inquiry" from www.galileo.org. Read, Pair, Share (What ah ha's, questions, thoughts did you have?)
 * What is Inquiry? - http://www.galileo.org/inquiry-what.html
 * Constructing Understanding Through Inquiry -
 * Why Inquiry? - http://www.galileo.org/inquiry-why.html
 * ** Lunch 11:45 - 12:45 (we can start again at 1:) **
 * 1: am (Michelle) Revisit our questions. Have we answered some of our questions do we need to add more?
 * (Michell) Revisit our criteria?
 * 1:15 pm Sherry and Shelley, could do a show and tell about what quality inquiry looks like in ELA, Math, Science (provide paper copy of presentations
 * (Roz) Organize working groups based upon categories of questions created earlier. Explain what groups will be doing in wiki.
 * Participants investigate based upon their questions.
 * Create a page for each category that is investigated, ask participants to record the questions from each category. Record their learning on the wiki page.
 * Groups present their learnings.
 * **Apply**: 3:15 pm
 * (Michelle) Reflect in Wiki - Has your understanding of inquiry changed today? And how? As you go back to your classroom, what changes do you plan to make? Review the anticipation guide. Have your answers changed? Review the questions. Use pages EFGHJ
 * (Michelle) Reflect in Wiki - Has your understanding of inquiry changed today? And how? As you go back to your classroom, what changes do you plan to make? Review the anticipation guide. Have your answers changed? Review the questions. Use pages EFGHJ


 * Possible Ideas:
 * Shelly do a more formal presentation about Critical Literacy
 * Sherry Infusing Technology in the Early Years Mathematics and Science Curriculum through Inquiry
 * Inquiry is for Everyone, Creating an Environment of Inquiry in your Classroom, Inquiry-based Learning
 * Inquiry in subject areas.
 * what is inquiry? it is about the curiosity stance you want to build in kids, questions, thinking, using big ideas but not as structured
 * strategic instruction by Shelley and Sherry to guide them on how to do an inquiry. Esp valuable for those teachers just starting in this process, who have never done an inquiry before maybe.
 * see some examples so they can go back to their schools and be able to support their colleagues
 * model inquiry, all teachers have to be involved
 * how do you get students to ask good questions, how do you bring in student voice?
 * critical literacies is thinking. needs to be introduced in early years.
 * use Anticipation Guide with a couple of highly contestable statements that they can debate or discuss

OLDER STUFF TO BE REVIEWED START - possible lens for inquiry >> >> OLDER STUFF TO BE REVIEWED END
 * New Technologies (one-to-one computing, white board, mobile devices and tablets, etc.) Why Are We Doing This? What is the Value Added? What Can We Do Now that Was Not Possible Before? How Can it be Transformational to teaching AND more importantly to student learning?
 * need models and time to research, can you find a concrete example of something that was not possible without technology e.g. audience
 * survey educators about 1-1 in their school division, school, etc.
 * what are some of the big pedagogical ideas we should be thinking about? collaboration, social constructivism
 * teachers look this up, pros and cons, benefits, strategies for success.
 * research then put together a presentation. to represent what they learned
 * collaboration:
 * what does it look like, incl in 1-to-1 computing
 * strategies
 * how to assess it (someone from assessment to speak on this?)
 * Supports available from MB Ed regarding collaboration: ELA, Shelley, BLMs, Independent Together, Success For All Learners, etc.
 * affective domain
 * wiki http://lwict-affectivedomain.wikispaces.com/
 * possible lens to do the inquiry include:
 * What does it look like in a classroom where every student has a laptop or other device. Bookmarks about 1-1 Computing - @http://www.delicious.com/lwict
 * How do you engage your students to work collaboratively in a 1-1 environment? strategies, assessing, etc.
 * create a multimedia digital archive/representation of your learning and present (brainstorm criteria for a quality representation?)


 * Senior Years Winter Session Agenda**
 * How are SY using LwICT?
 * What current strategies being used out there work to establish LwICT at SY?
 * 21st Century Learning (What Does it Mean? How Does This Connect to LwICT?)
 * Maybe the first session Jan 20 will involve making a web while brainstorming with participants. Then we can use ideas brought up to create pages in the wiki where teachers from subsequent workshops will work in groups to add content to.
 * **Note**: the page on 21st Century Literacies has been emptied and is waiting for teacher input from our winter 2011 http://lwict-principles.wikispaces.com/21st+Century+Literacies
 * what does that mean to you
 * what are the skills that students need
 * hopefully someone will make the link to LwICT
 * how does LwICT relate to 21st Cent learning?
 * make a page and ask participants to add information just like we did for copyright wiki **See above**
 * present your learning to the participants in the workshop