Thursday, 9 February 2012

Do you have a bias?

I must say that I am pretty open minded to many things and in my previous (rant-ish) posting about wikipedia I am sure many people rolled their eyes and thought I was a bit of a nut.  However, it is the truth.  All information may not have been created equally, but it can at leat create teachable moments and be used as a springboard  to a better understanding of whatever has been assigned (ie. project, inquiry question).  Right now I am team teaching with a colleague of mine and we are in the process of (trying) to teach Information Quest to a grade 6/7 class.  The teacher is not a fan of the format of Information Quest, because he feels it is too wordy for his students.  I like the bones of it, but need to tweak it so I can teach it better. So far him and I have been teaching many little mini lessons on how to focus your question, how to find appropriate material and how to filter through that material.  It has been a bit hit and miss to say the least.  Considering we are both new to this, I think we are doing all right.  Thank goodness his students have not realized yet that they are guinea pigs in this experiement of sorts.  I will say this though...we have used wikipedia and google search several times.

1 comment:

  1. Why not? You have to start somewhere.

    By the way, I think you mean "He and I".

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