Inquiry-Based Learning: The 3 Ds

Guest Bio:

Stephanie Rothstein has been an educator for 18 years, is a Mentor, Speaker, Writer, as well as a Google Innovator, Trainer & Coach. She is an EdTech TOSA for Los Gatos Saratoga School District in California, Co-Chair of a Design Thinking pathway and teacher of English 9. Stephanie is most proud of her TedX Talk "My Year of Yes to Me" published on Ted.com; writing multiple articles for Edutopia and more, creating CanWeTalkEDU, and co-founding Global GEG.

Episode Summary:

In this episode, Stephanie highlights how she engages students in inquiry-based learning by using the 3 Ds. She recently co-wrote an Edutopia article on this subject entitled Discover, Discuss, Demonstrate: Using Inquiry-Based Learning to Keep Students Engaged with Lainie Rowell. If you're looking for tools and strategies you can use tomorrow to garner deeper engagement from students, you're going to love this episode.

Timestamps:

Twitter for educators - is it worth it? [2:07]

How Stephanie's EduTopia article came to be [5:50]

Step One - Discover [8:00]

What's an EduProtocol? [9:10]

What are ThinSlides? [9:36]

Creative uses for images to foster discovery [11:14]

Discovery in practice: Stephanie's service learning project [12:28]

Step Two - Discuss [16:04]

FlipGrid for reflection [17:23]

Capturing student voice [18:05]

Step Three - Demonstrate [20:02]

Feedback as a circular process [20:43]

Authentic audiences and outside guests [21:20]

Stephanie's best takeaway from doing inquiry learning virtually [23:05]

What bumper bowling has to do with inquiry-based learning [23:24]

Demonstrate in practice: Stephanie's travel blog [54:09]

How to remove limiting factors [25:27]

Want to be a thought partner with Stephanie? [26:57]

Resource Links:

Stephanie's Edutopia Article - Discover, Discuss, Demonstrate: Using Inquiry-Based Learning to Keep Students Engaged by Stephanie Rothstein and Lainie Rowell

EduProtocols

ThinSlides from Steven J. McGriff, Ph.D. and YouTube video for more guidance

Question Formulation Technique (aka QFT)

FlipGrid

Canva

AdobeSpark

Stephanie's Service Learning Slides

Stephanie's Travel Blog Template