3.+The+Movie

//The world isn’t just the way it is.// //It is how we understand it, no?// //And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?// //Doesn’t that make life a story?// (Martel, 2001, p. 335) ** Inquiry and Digital Content ** media type="youtube" key="7x1wrCLzQJU" width="425" height="350" align="center"

**A Jackbert Digital Production** From a social-constructivist stance (see rationale) toward inquiry and a desire to promote Knowledge Building (in capitals - see philosophy), we will share this video at an inaugural professional development session within a particular school. Viewing of the video is intended to be an extension of the conversations that we begin with teachers in which perceptions about the role of technology and the ways in which it can support inquiry-based teaching and learning are discussed. The three questions proposed in the RAT framework by Joan Hughes, previously noted and outlined below, will be used to start the conversation and allow teachers to become aware of their position on the “visitor-to- resident” continuum (White, 2009). From this starting point, it is our hope that each teacher will be motivated to continue their personal journey in using digital tools and related technology with their students. The video will be used to extend the conversation and through these conversations, our stories and the stories of teachers will be illuminated. In collaboration with colleagues, teachers will be encouraged to share new discoveries, successes, and challenges they experience in their practice, as we continue to dialogue over time. Their ongoing stories will, in turn, serve to teach others about the possibilities and contribute to our collaborative and creative Knowledge Building endeavours. Thus new digital artifacts will be intentionally constructed and added to the educational community’s collective resources.

It is important to note that this video, as it stands in our wiki, is not intended to be a ‘stand-alone’ project that teachers engage with independently. Rather, as outlined above and in other places in this wiki, the video is intended to be a part of a larger conversation and Knowledge Building endeavour that we will engage in with teachers, both online and offline (as outlined on the Philosophy page).

As the learning community follows the narrative or message of //our// digital object and they themselves engage with technologies for planning and research, connecting, communicating, collaborating and cooperating, understanding culture, creating, sharing, reflecting, and for actualizing continual learning, this wiki will become a "Digital Habitat" for showcasing and discussing progress, challenges, and the like. This place will provide an online space--variously tagged wiki pages---accessible anytime and anywhere, for ongoing conversation, ideas and reflection as well as a platform for sharing digital artifacts as part of intentional Knowledge Building for the community. Essentially, our learners will shape this wiki to meet the desires and progress of the community.

References:

Hughes, J. (n.d). //RAT Framework//. Retrieved from PBS Teachers, Digital Media: New Learners of the 21st Century

Martel, Y. (2001). //Life of Pi.// New York: Harcourt.

White, D. 2009. Visitors and residents. Retrieved from [|__http://tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk/index.php/2009/10/14/visitors-residents-the-video/__]