Community Inquiry Laboratory

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Community Inquiry Laboratory

• Graduate School of
• Library Information Science
• U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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What is it?

• Inquiry Page inquiry units, quotes, other
  resources
• CILabs
• inquiry units, plus
• connecting communities
• Learning opportunities
• Research on inquiry

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1) Inquiry Page

• Partner projects
• Resources for inquiry teaching learning
• Lesson planning support and idea site
• Collaborative teaching learning community

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2) Communities GSLIS

• Prairienet
• ESL community technology centers
• Center for Children's Books
• ISRL projects
• PITA grant
• LEEP

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Communities NCSA

• Inquiry involves people as active learners.
  Students in inquiry classrooms may experience
  anything from running a business, to writing
  stories, to growing and hatching chickens. (also
  Bugscope, EdGrid, VR Savvy, GK-12, RiverWeb,
  ChemViz)

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Communities Other UIUC

• Ethnography of the University (EOTU)
• Dept. of English
• College of Education
• CAMPWS
• MSTE Office
• Library of the Future

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Communities Beyond

• Afya, Sisternet
• East St. Louis Action Research
• Paseo Boricua
• Distributed Knowledge Research Consortium
• Computers and Writing
• Australia, Taiwan, Singapore,

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3) Learning

• Users of the Inquiry Page
• Developers
• practicums, internships, independent study
• weekly meetings
• workshops
• sequence of courses gt graduate specialization

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Learning Degree specialization

• Inquiry-based learning
• Community information systems
• Participatory action research
• Social justice
• Pragmatic technology
• Uses and users of information
• Literacy in the information age

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4) Research on inquiry

• Development as participatory inquiry
• Student/teacher research
• Foundations Participatory action research
• Funded research through NSF, Dept of Ed, IMLS,
  NIH, etc.

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Research questions

• How can we
• connect learning life?
• support lifelong learning?
• accommodate diversity shared values?

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A) Connect school and life
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B) Lifelong learning

• technology gt solves a problem
• solution to a problem gt technology

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C) Value difference seek common purpose
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Participatory design
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Co-evolution
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Needs

• Coordination jigsaw model
• Staff support
• Stable technology infrastructure
• Established presence
• Response to funding opportunities

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Sites

• CILabs cilabs.illinois.edu
• Inquiry Page inquiry.illinois.edu
• Youth Community Informatics yci..illinois.edu

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References

• Benson, A. P., Bruce, Bertram C. (2001,
  August). Using the web to promote inquiry and
  collaboration A snapshot of the Inquiry Page's
  development. Teaching Education, 12(2), 153-163.
• Bruce, B. C., Bishop, A. P. (2002, May). Using
  the web to support inquiry-based literacy
  development. Journal of Adolescent and Adult
  Literacy, 45(8), 706-714.
• The Community Inquiry Lab Collaborative (2004,
  March). Community inquiry labs as effective
  community informatics tools. In Peter
  Day, Building bridging community networks
  Knowledge, innovation diversity through
  communication, Brighton, UK.
• Bishop, Ann P., Bruce, Bertram C., Jones, M.
  Cameron (2006). Community inquiry and
  informatics Collaborative learning and action
  through ICT. Journal of Community Informatics,
  2(2). To be reprinted in J. M. Carroll (ed.),
  Learning in communities Interdisciplinary
  perspectives on human centred information
  technology. London Springer-Verlag.
• Bishop, Ann P., Bruce, Bertram C. (2009).
  Community inquiry and collaborative practice The
  iLabs of Paseo Boricua. Journal of Community
  Informatics, 5(1).
• Bruce, Bertram C. (2009, April). "Building an
  airplane in the air" The life of the inquiry
  group. In Joni Falk Brian Drayton (eds.),
  Creating and sustaining online professional
  learning communities (pp. 47-67). New York
  Teachers College Press.