Designing Digitally Supported Inquiry-Based Pedagogies to Cultivate Multiple Literacies, Critical Thinking, Disciplinary Learning, and Participatory Action

• In Event: Circling Back and Moving Forwards in Digital Literacies Research

Abstract

This poster seeks to clarify how and why digital texts, tools, and inquiry-based practices have been used to facilitate literacy teaching and disciplinary learning in educational contexts before proposing a Personal Digital Inquiry (PDI) framework to consolidate and integrate core principles of inquiry across a wide array of interpretations. First, digital inquiry is situated in an integrated focus on digital literacies, disciplinary literacies, knowledge building, and participatory action. Next, trends noted from a review of the literature are synthesized into three families of inquiry-based pedagogies (student centered learning; digital literacy and learning; and critical digital inquiry and participation) to clarify conceptions of digitally supported inquiry. Then, the PDI framework is used to integrate the hallmarks of inquiry across these varied approaches while being flexible enough to encourage revision and innovation in future learning contexts. Last, ten studies in different educational contexts are highlighted to illustrate the spirit of PDI before concluding with a discussion of considerations and related questions to guide the study of digitally supported inquiry in the future.

Authors

• Julie Coiro, University of Rhode Island

• Carita Kiili, Tampere University

• Jon M. Wargo, University of Michigan

• Beth R. Holland, FullScale