In class today, we discussed chapter 4 of Rethinking Education. I really liked the website that they brought to our attention regarding the National Center for Education Statistics; this website is a good resource to keep handy, because it allows us to look into different statistics regarding a school we may want to teach at in the future. A good point brought up during the debrief was the question of how to encourage participation; how do we get our students to volunteer? Do we force people to volunteer? Do we wait and pray for volunteers? Do we ask good questions that are not vague? Honestly, I do not really know how to answer this question, but I think that the best way to get volunteers is to ask good, interesting questions.
We also discussed the iRLO assignment. I am definitely a little apprehensive about this assignment; it sounds complicated, but I hope that once I play around with Scratch it won't be quite as intimidating. I think that the idea of Scratch is great, but I am a little unsure of my ability to program things.
Something to keep in mind regarding the inquiry question assignment is that we should have formal, peer-reviewed articles and informal research (such as blogs or wikis). A good tool to use for this assignment, for finding articles, is the UWSP Library article quicksearch link.
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