Sunday, October 12, 2008

During my group's presentation, I realized just how huge of a concept community of Inquiry could really be. We talked about the different stages of artistic development in children and what those stages look like and how long they last. We handed out at the end of the presentation a worksheet to see if the class could identify the different stages. On several of the drawings, even our group had trouble deciding what looked like what. The class met the same problem. They had several questions, and a discussion ensued in which we discussed what qualified each stage in drawing form. The class was very vocal in trying to determine which stages were exemplified in which drawings and questioned us when they thought we were wrong. They, however, were very receptive when we were able to explain the reasons why certain drawings fit one category more than another. If we were not being schooled in a community of inquiry, the "because I said so" side of this discussion could have been very prominent. I am glad to see that the class was not afraid to ask questions, and even argue with us their point if they disagreed with our thought process.

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