This module began with defining the idea of Information Literacy (IL). Below is a mind map I created (click to enlarge) which collects together the ideas from the modules readings.
Guided
Inquiry (GI)
Advantages
- Learning becomes student and interest driven.
- Skills learnt during guided inquiry help to foster life long learning with transferable skills of information literacy. The ability to read information (textual, visual, aural, digital and gestural), plan and problem solve are essential for employment in the 21st century.
- Once the Information Search Process (ISP) is taught to a group of students the guided inquiry activities can be used in the future by those students across different subjects and refined/ strengthened with each additional activity.
- Guided Inquiry allows for collaborative planning and teaching by the subject teacher and the teacher-librarian.
- Allows the teacher-librarian to take on more of a teaching role to fulfil an area identified as a 21st century learning need.
Challenges
- Focusing a classroom of students on who are working on different topics and may be at different stages in the ISP.
- Encouraging teachers to move out of their classroom and away from methods of teaching they are comfortable with. Encouraging teachers to move from teacher instruction to student centred learning.
Disadvantages
- Does not work smoothly without the involvement of both the teacher and the teacher librarian. Students can become bewildered and disinterested if intervention does not occur to guide them.
- In a content heavy curriculum guided inquiry may take a lot of time away to teach new processes, classroom teachers may feel restrained by time.
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