Ideas from Dr Leslie Maniotes
In the process of developing an aspirational unit of work using an inquiry approach, I decided to reach out to Dr Leslie Maniotes on Twitter to ask for advice. Maniotes is one of the authors of Guided Inquiry – Learning in the 21st Century (Kuhlthau, Maniotes, Caspari, 2015) and has developed a very useful framework for inquiry, known as Guided Inquiry Design (GID). It is essentially a guiding framework based on the principles of constructivist learning and the Information Search Process. The framework creates a path for students (and teachers) to work their way through a research project or task.
For my Masters unit of Inquiry Learning I was required to develop a unit of work using an inquiry learning framework, with the GID approach put forward as a useful tool. In developing my STEM integrated unit of work incorporating a Design task element, I felt that GID did not capture all it needed to. Hence why I reached out to Dr Maniotes for advice. I am pleased to say, she was more than willing to help and I will be sharing my completed unit plan (and rationale) with her on the completion of the Masters unit.
Her advice was to use GID, but to incorporate Stanford’s d_school Design Thinking framework, beginning in the GID Create phase as can be seen in our Twitter conversation! I love how Twitter makes our world so much smaller!