Monday, October 8, 2007

The Alberta Inquiry Model calls this part of information inquiry "sharing." Dr. Lamb has labeled it "waving." A moving hand is meant to communicate something. An important part of communicating is knowing who is being communicated to--who will have interest in this information. Both models discuss the importance of this communication step as well as thinking about the audience and how that will determine the presentation.
This part of the inquiry process is the place to communicate the learnings from this process of research. As I stated in my last entry, I decided to create a pathfinder so that the information I found would be usable for teachers wishing to teach children about how cotton is grown as well as what it is used for. For someone just wishing to learn about the same things, the resources would provide answers to those questions.
This pathfinder is available on the web and I'm aware of a few teachers that may have interest in these resources, so I will let them know where they can find this information.

1 comment:

Lois said...

I forgot to list my source of information: "The Blue Book of Information Age Inquiry, Instruction and Literacy" by Daniel Callison and Leslie Preddy.