Inquiry Learning

This past week in class we did the inquiry learning activity discussed in our readings in class.  Through the activity I feel that it really helped enforce the usefulness of doing these activities with students.  As we examined each short passage, each individual was able to bring their own knowledge and keen eye into the discussion, pointing out aspects of the writing that I might not have other wise noticed on my own.  As a learner at any age, it is beneficial to see what other people see in a text, especially as we get older because we have been conditioned from years of the same practice to only notice certain aspects of a text.  But working in a group, it allowed each person to bring to the table something that someone else might not notice because of their unique lens.