Information Fluency

Inquiry is a fundamental building block of teaching and learning that empowers students to follow their sense of wonder into new discoveries and insights about the way the world works. The empowered learner calls upon information/inquiry skills to connect with what he or she knows, ask intriguing questions about what is not known, investigate the answers, construct new understandings, and communicate to share those understandings with others. Students need to use the skills of inquiry to learn. The Cycle of Inquiry and Learning provides a framework for active learning and the formation of new understandings. The information and inquiry skills required for in-depth learning must follow a coherent development spiral of instruction and practice throughout the years of schooling, K-12 and beyond, to enable all of our children to become independent life-long learners (from the Empire State Information Fluency Continuum). 

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