An inquiry into "inquiry." What follows are a set of notes toward a conception of how processes of inquiry relate to teaching and learning.

• Sense-making; learning through inquiry
  • What assumptions do we make about teaching and learning?
  • How do we construct knowledge?
  • Constructivism (constructivism.ppt)
  • One view of the Inquiry process
  • What is inquiry-based learning?
  • Learning from children
  • How can we understand knowledge making in communities of Inquiry?
  • The individual and society
• Teaching
  • Real stuff
  • Real talk
  • Developing one's own knowledge
  • Becoming a teacher
  • Inquiry Teaching and Learning
  • Are teachers inquirers into teaching methods?
  • How can we view the process of teaching as inquiry into learning?
  • What roles do or should a teacher play to facilitate learning?
• Environments for learning
  • Characteristics of successful learning environments
  • What tools, media, resources, or environments are most supportive of learning in different contexts of learner and task?
  • How can scaffolds for learning be provided?
  • How can we create contexts to support inquiry-based learning?
  • Predict-Observe-Explain
  • Inquiry Page
  • What is an Inquiry Unit?
  • How can teaching and learning through Inquiry be presented as a workshop?
• Research into inquiry
  • Why is inquiry often neglected in classrooms?
  • The relation of subject matter to engaging in inquiry
  • Educational Technology: Media for Inquiry, Communication, Construction, and Expression
• Stories about teaching and learning
• Other resources
• rough notes

*I'd like to thank David Brown, Susan Bruce, Elizabeth Easley, Inga Karliner, Jim Levin, Margery Osborne, and Michael Weissman for helpful suggestions on this site.