Here is an inquiry rubric used by the Galileo Educational Network.
It is a great rubric that offers a section on 'authenticity' along with 'academic rigor', 'beyond the school', 'appropriate use of technology' & 'active exploration'.
Inquiry & authentic learning...are they the same thing?
This examination into authentic learning is bringing up a lot of similar language...
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I think inquiry and authentic learning ( or maybe I should qualify it with "inquiry done properly") are very similar. You take the direction with some guidance from the children. I liked the other article in Galileo On the Nature of Inquiry: Choosing a topic by Jardine where he uses the analogy of taking his son to the garden. He says "I don't send him out to a developmentally appropriate garden. I take him to the same garden where I am going to work that place needs, of course, each of us will work as each of us is able." Isn't that what authentic learning is about as well. It is a place where we all can find our own meaning that is relevant to each of us as learners.
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