Q&A with Barbara Stripling

[Darryl Toerien Keymaster]

During October, November and December 2020 we collaborated with Elizabeth Hutchinson – who runs #LibraryStaffLoveLearning, which offers free CPD for library staff – on a discussion around Focus on inquiry : a teacher’s guide to implementing inquiry-based learning.

This deeply thoughtful and thought-provoking discussion culminated in a Q&A in January 2021 with the authors, Dr Dianne Oberg (Professor Emerita) and Dr Jennifer Branch-Mueller (Professor) from the Department of Elementary Education at the University of Alberta.

Following this successful collaboration, we will again be collaborating with Elizabeth and #LibraryStaffLoveLearning on a discussion (details to follow), this time around Barbara Stripling‘s chapter – Empowering Students to Inquire in a Digital Environment – in School Librarianship: Past, Present, and Future.

We have obtained special permission to download this chapter for free (details to follow), and the discussion will again culminate in a Q&A with the author (details to follow).

[Darryl Toerien Keymaster]

The Q&A with Barbara Stripling will take place on Sunday 28 March 2021 at 2pm-3.30pm GMT / UTC and is centred on the discussion in Empowering Students to Inquire in a Digital Environment.

• Colleagues who wish to join us will need to register in advance using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpcO-opzIiHNCSvWStj_j20TkaAszVOPYw
• After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

The Q&A will be recorded for colleagues who are not be able to join us for practical reasons.

As with everything on the FOSIL Group website, the chapter that we will be discussing – Empowering Students to Inquire in a Digital Environment – is free to download for purposes of the discussion here with the kind permission of colleagues at School Library Connection and Libraries Unlimited / ABC-CLIO.

While it will be possible to follow the discussion without joining the FOSIL Group, participating in the discussion will require registering for an account, which is free.

If inquiry, as we are coming to understand it, is “a dynamic process and stance aimed at building knowledge and understanding of the world and ourselves in it as the basis for responsible participation in community,” then inquiry in a digital environment is of vital concern for us, and we hope that many of you will be able to join us in this discussion, whether directly or indirectly.

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