Inquiry+learning+linked+to+ICT+PD

Inquiry Learning is a core approach underpinning all the Key Competencies of The New Zealand Curriculum:
 * Thinking - critical thinking, questioning, creative thinking and metacognition (thinking about your learning)
 * Relating to others - being open to the views and knowledge of others
 * Using language and symbols - knowing how to use resources, to comprehend and find meaning
 * Managing self - related to personalised learning, setting tasks and following them through
 * Participating and contributing - learning takes place in community

And it also gives purpose to the use of ICT in learning:
 * Search processes and applications, eg Access-it
 * Websites and databases, including EPIC, Te Ara, the various websites developed or accessible through the National Library.

I've added some __**links**__ below relating to these databases and Inquiry processes: > > **Please share what you think of anything in these sites. > and... > In preparation for our training session, please use this forum for** (Just click on "Edit this page" box at the top, write your response, then "save draft" in the box below.)
 * **National Library website:** [|**www.natlib.govt.nz**] **For school use (teachers and librarians) click on __schools__, and for the quickest access to learning databases click on __students__ in the top right box**
 * **Australian Library & Information Association information literacy forum advocacy kit:** [|**http://www.alia.org.au/advocacy/literacy.kit.pdf**]
 * **Information Literacy Online (Gwen Gawith):** [|**http://infolit.unitecnology.ac.nz/**]
 * **Jamie McKenzie's From Now On site:** [|**http://fno.org/**]**NEMP access tasks, information skills 2005:** [|**http://www.nzcer.org.nz/default.php?cPath=31_208_288&products_id=1180**]
 * **Dr Ross Todd of Rutgers University, an Australian who has taught in New Zealand, is the international guru: valuable presentations in** [|**http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~rtodd/archive.htm**]
 * **SLANZA (School Library Association of NZ Aotearoa):** [|**www.slanza.org.nz/i2k.html**]
 * **And for something a little different**: What is information literacy? (**Otis College Utube**): []
 * Questions about Inquiry Learning/ Information Literacy
 * Stories about a successful inquiry unit or lesson- or about a disastrous unit or lesson
 * Your thoughts

I suppose you all have this website on your Desktops: []. There are some great examples for students on needing to be careful about information (eg Le Roy's account of Great Barrier's history.)