Using Inquiry-Based Learning to Tackle ACRL’s Revised Information Literacy Framework
Threshold Concept
Andy Burkhardt - @vonburkhardt Alan Carbery - @acarbery
Secret Sauce
Ingredients
INQUIRY-BASED
learning
Inquiry-guided learning (IGL) promotes the acquisition of new knowledge, abilities, and attitudes through students' increasingly independent investigation of questions, problems, and issues, for which there often is no single answer.”
– Virginia Lee
What does it look like?
Let us inquire
together
Teach with your mouth shut
Give up control
No single right answer
Why Inquiry?
Problem Solving
Curiosity
Holistic thinking
Some we prepared earlier
Concepts of Community & the Annotated Bibliography
YOUR TURN
Think about a time when a question really energized a classroom or
other kind of learning experience?
What was the question? Why was it successful?
Core 250 - Ethnography
Research AS inquiry
Giving People the Opportunity to tell their story
What Might Be some advantages over Text-Based Research?
Sweet Treats
Sweet Treats Assessment
How do we assess threshold concepts? The Framework?
Pro tip!
Pro tip! We don’t!
We assess students!
Authentic Assessment – using real-life student coursework