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 One-to-one is an important vehicle for education – if it’s used in a way that enhances teaching and learning. This column is about inquiry-based learning and how an approach also used by teachers can be deepened when the teacher and every child has a computing device.
“…The idea of framing learning around complex learner-generated questions is one answer to our search-and-run, cut-and-paste, change-a-few-words-and-hand-it-in climate. If we can teach our students to think deeply by formulating complex questions, and to examine others’ questions and assumptions, and to move forward with this approach, our students will have the cognitive framework for whatever comes next. They will have learned to be analytical, reflective, discerning, creative and thoughtful. The trick is for real meaningful inquiry to be the norm and for the teacher to continually guide the student to continually go deeper and to always question the question.
Inquiry-Based Learning and 1-to-1
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How this is a part of IBL |
How 1-to-1 Enhances |
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Collaboration |
Students work in groups to assess artifacts, ideas and information for subsequent inquiry |
Each student with a digital assistant can analyze and assess ideas, artifacts and information using software and online tools. Students can divide and conquer, each taking parts of the analysis, equipped with the same resources and analysis and writing tools because of 1-to-1
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Journaling while learning |
Students grapple with ever more complex inquiries, coached and guided by their teacher, to come up with questions that become deeper and more complex |
When each student has a digital assistant, he or she can journal their work to deepen the inquiries. When these inquiries are recorded and saved, the student can go back and see his or her progress and thinking, understanding more completely the process that unfolded, and glimpsing into his or her own learning
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Researching artifacts and resources |
Students examine artifacts (primary source and other material) and locate resources as part of their inquiries |
Having the ability to easily research from their digital assistants makes the research less a planned event and more a natural flowing element of the work
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Writing and presenting |
Students create a closing activity in writing or via a presentation to explain what was learned during the IBL work |
Having 1-to-1 means each student can take parts of their recorded journals, plus resources and other materials from their research, and pull them together for written reports or for presentations. When each student has a digital assistant, there is no need to move to another location for the resource. Plus home to school work is possible, seamlessly.
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"1-to-1 Learning: Laptop Programs That Work” 2nd edition, ISTE, Spring, 2009.
This is an excerpt from the second edition of my book “1-to-1 Learning: Laptop Programs That Work” to be published in Spring, 2009 by ISTE.
 Pamela Livingston is a technology educator and author of the best-selling book,"1-to-1 Learning: Laptop Programs That Work."
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