Clint Tanner

 Paet 1:       The past three years I have taught 8th grade social studies. The inquiry process in my classroom is centered around unit DBQ's (Document Based Questions). This expands on the content and helps students use questioning as a way to sharpen their understanding and dive deeper. This has proven useful to drive students to learn more and my role in this process is to facilitate their learning. I will be switching over to teaching science next year and that means endless possibilities for inquiry based learning assignments!! I grew up loving science through the lens of inquiry and I cannot wait to spread this insight and discovery to my students.  Part 2: Mini-Lesson: Manifest Destiny In this lesson I will display the classic painting American Progress  by John Gast on the board. I have students spend 3 minutes silently analyzing the picture to themselves. I then get a clipboard and put a blank sheet of white paper on it and have the students...

My Goals: I want to understand how to better use technology to lead students through inquiry based learning. I want to develop a better understanding for information fluency.  Thought the past 3 modules we have discovered strategies for building our information fluency. From "Tips for Searching Google Effectively" in Module 2, in Module 3 where we discovered how to better search the Galileo site to find creditable sources, and in this weeks Module where we discussed the importance of mindset. These recourses and lessons have widened my understanding of evaluating information, as stated in my second goal. I am really looking forward to incorporating some of theses strategies and recourses in the future modules. I have always strived to be a teacher through inquiry, but am looking forward to seeing how I can blend it with my new knowledge. 

 In this weeks reading "Great Teaching Means Letting Go" I came to see how more inquiry learning can better impact our students and leave them with lasting experiences. The author, Grant Wiggins, described an eureka moment in learning as he was coaching soccer. He had been "teaching" the players how to create space, but this was unsuccessful due to the other team not lining up as they had practiced. I have had some of these same experiences in my classroom when students will complain that on a test a topic wasn't described 100% as it was in class which results in many of the students missing the answer.  After reading the article I would agree that there is a connection between inquiry learning and great teaching. Students learn best when they have choices about their learning. The article also points out that many teachers are too hands on with projects and assignments, not allowing students to grown within themselves. I like how the article states that student...

Last full week of school! What a great year with some great kidos!!  With so much information out there it really is getting harder to sift through creditable recourses and information. I see my students all the time trying to copy and past USATestPrep questions into google during study hall. I do feel that many of these habits have stemmed from the massive overload of online course assignments this year due to our restrictions from the pandemic. This is troubling because many times students wont even fact check the information but trust it is "good" information because it was the top search result. In the begging of the online learning days of this school year I had to re-teach search engine skills for projects in my class.  In the study, information behavior of the researcher of the future, I can relate to how the digital transition is affecting libraries. My school has a vast selection of books in its library, but after talking with my media specialist she says the num...

 In today's world there are so many sources on information. In a way it feels as if the world has gotten smaller through the influx and bombardment of information available all the time. In this weeks readings/ video resources I see how distinguishing real from fake news is a problem for adults and our future generations. The TedEd Video, Why people fall for misinformation, was very eye opening because it was referring to the different "areas" of taste located on our tongue. I have always head this personally and was blown away to see how his research was distorted through the spread of misinformation. Managing information in today's world is becoming more and more difficult, but I did like how Jane Hart describes her "info-wrangling". This article brakes down her three steps to managing information: Seek, Sense, and Share. With social media spreading information so quickly and abundantly her process is very refined to meets the needs of filtering informatio...

 Hello all!! My name is Clint Tanner and welcome to my blog!  Learning Goal: I want to understand how to better use technology to lead students through inquiry based learning. I want to develop a better understanding for information fluency.