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Even if we exercise these "enlightened" practices in the classroom, don't we have the responsibilty to prepare students for the obstacles they will inevitably face in future?          …Moira

I guess I have found that the more advanced the courses are typically more professorial and dogmatic. …Edward.

[Re: Breaking the Cycle of Lecture style teaching] …or, should we also prepare them for what could happen and prepare them to take advantage of new opportunities?       …Brie.

What do we really value?  What does empowering students mean?            …Wil

Metacognition is a habit of mind that makes inquiry a richer intrapersonal and interpersonal experience.            …Deb. 

So in terms of metacognition, how much of this is conscious? How much is affecting my cognitive unconscious in a way that's not constructive? I know that I try to filter but I wonder what happens to children with no filters?         …Joyce

Does becoming so self aware run the risk of stifling the unconscious?  Do we really value the unconscious in our education systems?  How do we tap into the power of the unconscious?  What role does metacognition have in the interplay between the unconscious and conscious? (Demonstration). …Wil

Deb’s preemptive answer to questions about the unconscious… “The unconscious dialogue that is metacognition is always happening in the background. What we need to do as educators is help students take the time to make this dialogue evident between their cognitive unconscious and their conscious (storyteller for the BBI folks)”

Joyce’s answer.

I find it interesting that colleges train teachers to use inquiry and to foster metacognition skills in their classrooms, but that [many] school districts don't encourage it.  …Syreeta

Should it be the other way around?  If early education was inquiry based, could colleges get down to the business of “turning out” professionals?        …Wil

The activity does help to raise awareness of our own metacognition.  However it was not an exercise in inquiry.  I'm interested in examining an inquiry lesson around metacognition.  What would that look like?          …Jill

Was Alison Cook-Sather’s lesson Inquiry Based Instruction? Did we inquire about our own learning style? If so, what was the data/evidence we analyzed? Perhaps Inquiry Instruction can be used outside of “science”, if one is willing to re-imagine data and evidence and emphasize instead the generation of stories/summaries/explanations.            …Wil

I keep coming back to "core content"? I am really searching for a balance between content and inquiry here.  There just seems to be a disconnect between the two, like there is a missing step needed to marry the best teaching practices to required content.

As always, I would appreciate your feedback.           …Moira