The Research Cycle - Short Version. Note: This article appeared originally as part of a larger article, "We Weave the Web" in Educational Leadership, November, 1996.
Copyright, Jamie McKenzie, 1996, All rights reserved. We (the Bellingham (WA) Schools learned quickly that old approaches to student research were inadequate to meet the essential learning goals set by the district and were ill suited to the information rich environment we had created with our 1500 PC WAN (wide area network). With all those computers and all of those classrooms connected to great information on CD-ROMs and the Internet, we needed to re-invent our concept of research, upgrading the questioning and elevating the reasoning required while adding a "teaming" component.
Information Literacy Framework. James Herring's PLUS model. SAUCE - a research and problem solving process. Home - Big6. Virtual Information Inquiry: 8Ws. Children don't just "do" information, technology, and Internet.
A inquiry or project-based learning environment involves wondering about a topic, wiggling through information, and weaving elements together. Each student learns and expresses themselves in a unique way. This model was developed by Annette Lamb in the early 1990s. It was published in the book Surfin' the Web: Project Ideas from A to Z by Annette Lamb, Larry Johnson, and Nancy Smith in 1997 and in an article called Wondering Wiggling, and Weaving: A New Model for Project and Community Based Learning on the Web (Learning and Leading With Technology, 1997, 24(7), 6-13). Read Wondering, Wiggling, and Weaving: A New Model for Project and Community Based Learning on the Web (PDF) by Annette Lamb, Larry Johnson, and Nancy Smith (Learning and Leading With Technology, 1997, 24(7), 6-13). Carol Kuhlthau. Preface (View PDF) Guided Inquiry has its foundation in my research and writings on the student’s perspective of the constructive process of learning from a variety of sources.
The development of this program grew from three previously published books.