{"id":4845,"date":"2021-07-21T11:26:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T05:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learn.toddleapp.com\/?post_type=talk_post&#038;p=4845"},"modified":"2025-08-12T11:39:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T06:09:18","slug":"whats-the-point-of-inquiry-learning","status":"publish","type":"talk_post","link":"https:\/\/www.toddleapp.com\/learn\/talk-post\/whats-the-point-of-inquiry-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"<b>What&#8217;s the Point of Inquiry Learning?<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-about-the-talk\"><strong>About the talk<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Education isn&#8217;t about roomfuls of busy happy children. They can be busy and happy and not learn anything of value. So what are the valuable residues &#8211; the lifelong assets that accrue from time spent doing inquiry-based learning? How clear are we about what they are, and how do we tell if we have achieved them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Join author and cognitive scientist, Guy Claxton, in this keynote from The Inquiry Educators Summit 2021, to delve into these provocations and to set your classroom up for valuable inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group learnings has-background\" style=\"background-color:#fff6f3\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-key-objectives\"><strong>Key Objectives<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Explore the different kinds of learners and their characteristics to deepen your understanding of your students&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Understand how you can cultivate a fruitful classroom culture by re-designing some old teaching methods and swapping them with modern pedagogy&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Find new strategies and frameworks to make classroom management easier and learning, exciting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the talk Education isn&#8217;t about roomfuls of busy happy children. 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