GID and Making
What are Guided Inquiry Design and Making?
Guided Inquiry Design is a framework for designing inquiry learning through eight phases: Open, Immerse, Explore, Identify, Gather, Create, Share, and Evaluate - to give students the time and guidance to identify their inquiry questions (Kuhlthau, Maniotes, & Caspari, 2015). Learn more about the framework here.
Guided Inquiry Design (GID), based on Kuhlthau’s (2004) Information Search Process (ISP) research model, is a framework for designing pre-K to 12th grade inquiry integrated with curriculum. The eight phases enhance the traditional inquiry model by providing a framework that supports school librarians and teachers’ facilitation and provides scaffolds for the learner throughout the research process. This is a process where the learner is creating their own questions around a curriculum topic and standard, and where the learning is personally relevant to them. In GID, the learners not only reflect on their products but also on the metacognitive processes involved in their learning.
Learning by Making is heavily focused on design, creativity, and hands-on application and transfer of knowledge. The Maker mindset “is an invitation to take ideas and turn them into various kinds of reality. It is the process of iterating over a project to improve it. It is a chance to participate in communities of makers of all ages by sharing your work and expertise” (Make Media, 2013, p. 21). This learning by Making approach is rooted in constructivist theories that articulate meaning and knowledge are constructed through experiences (Piaget, 1972; Vygotsky, 1978).
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services LG-81-16-0151.
