HeyJaredFOSIL, Education and School Libraries
Welcome to our podcast where we hope to help you engage with the content on the FOSIL Group Website, introduce you to people using FOSIL in schools and most of all just have a conversation about the role of school librarians within education. elizabethhutchinson.substack.com
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Inquiry as Conversation: Who Does the Thinking? (opens the original)
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In Part 2 of our conversation with Gabrielle Mace, we continue exploring the ideas behind Teaching Inquiry as Conversation . You can listen to Part 1 here . This time, we ask a deceptively simple question: who is actually doing the thinking? We explore what it means for students to construct knowledge rather than simply acquire information; why changing our minds in response to evidence is an important part of inquiry; and what happens when teachers provide so much support that they begin doing
What Happens When We Let Students Wonder? (opens the original)
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In this episode, we’re joined by Gabrielle Mace to explore the connections between deep reading, inquiry and the school library. We discuss Gabrielle’s work developing immersive inquiry experiences, the ideas in Teaching Inquiry as a Conversation , and what it means to create a culture of inquiry in schools. Along the way, we explore curiosity, conversation, student agency and the important role school librarians can play in helping students become thoughtful, independent learners. Links The Stu
Inquiry as Conversation: FOSIL, School Libraries and the Future of Learning (opens the original)
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In this episode of FOSIL, Education and School Libraries , Darryl and I are joined by Barbara Stripling to explore how inquiry learning can transform school libraries, the connections between the Stripling Model of Inquiry and FOSIL, and why conversation is central to meaningful learning. Drawing on Barbara’s 50 years of experience in school libraries and their co-authored book Teaching Inquiry as a Conversation , Barbara and Darryl discuss how inquiry moves beyond finding information towards qu
Four Domains of Thought (Part 2): Information and the Ability to Think (opens the original)
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This second part of the conversation continues through Dallas Willard’s account of cognition and intentionality, working with four interrelated domains of thought: ideas, images, information, and the capacity to think. The focus here is on information and the ability to think. The discussion considers the role of information in shaping knowledge, with a particular emphasis on the importance of accuracy, depth, and intellectual discipline. A key theme is the place of non-fiction within learning,
Four Domains of Thought (Part 1): Ideas and Images (opens the original)
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This first part of a two-part conversation (we did honestly try to do this in one episode) explores Dallas Willard’s account of cognition and intentionality, working with four interrelated domains of thought: ideas, images, information, and the capacity to think. The focus in this episode is on ideas and images. The discussion considers how ideas shape understanding and how images often carry even greater influence, sometimes distorting or deepening meaning in ways that are not immediately visib
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