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Casting stones at the LGBTQ in Barbados…
Just a week ago this country celebrated Emancipation day - the day millions of human beings were no longer counted as property, as less than human but as the flesh and blood, heart and soul people they were.
Slavery was (and is) truly evil. A painful reminder that when people view those different to themselves as the 'other', 'less than', 'not as good as us' it leads to human beings becoming dehumanized. "They" become less important than "us" and so we callously say ugly things about "them", restrict, belittle, vilify "them" to protect "us". Bit by bit attitudes lead to actions and violence is justified. Slavery is one manifestation of this but so is all manner of discrimination. Separate water fountains and genocide are less far apart than you think. Every Holocaust starts with slurs muttered under the breath of regular, 'good' people. Every action starts with attitude.
While it's mostly become a season of perpetual party, Crop Over is still a Barbadian celebration of culture and history nestled in a time marked off on the calendar as the "Season of Emancipation". There is then a painful sort of irony when Grand Kadooment sees the verbal and physical assault of a young participant because of his sexual orientation. Because he is different, and unwilling to hide his orientation people felt it necessary to show their disapproval by literally throwing stones at Justin.
Stone throwing… I imagine the perpetrators felt righteously justified, biblical even.
People will always find reasons to justify persecuting "others". Be it bible verses, appeals to science, nature, history or brute strength. They've all been used to justify one group putting down another. Gang wars or world wars, school bullies or genocidal dictators, discrimination based on race or orientation…No matter what reasoning is used they all start when one person, one group starts to believe - "I am better than he is. We are more important than them."
The instant those stones hung in the air propelled by hatred towards "that so-and-so" was not an isolated moment in time. They were fuelled by every insult and snide under the breath comment we make as a gay couple holding hands passes by. As a society, Barbadians constantly affirm the lie that straight people are more important and more valuable than gay people by the way we talk about and treat the LGBTQ community.
It's all very well and good to tell yourself that you would never stone someone just because you don't approve of their orientation but every time we speak about gay people in ways which debase their humanity, individuality and worth we are contributing to a society that believes one group is better and more important than another. A society that eventually picks up stones.
As someone who warily and wearily calls myself a Christian I am painfully aware that very often it's the church leading the charge against the LGBTQ community. Not so much with stones, we have a literal teaching from the man himself about not casting stones thankfully, but our words and attitudes show less restraint. Insults, slurs and lies of all shapes and sizes are woven together with bible verses to form this great ugly tapestry that's suppose to inspire 'righteousness and family values' but all too often leads us back to the lie that 'we' are better than 'them' and that "they" are less than "us".
Less moral.
Less righteous.
Less Godly.
Less loving.
Less worthy of being loved.
Less human, because of who they find sexually attractive.
Here is where a lot of people will interupt me and explain it's because the church loves gay people that they speak the way they do. "Love the sinner, hate the sin… Tough love… Go and sin no more!" Right?
But you know what? Right here, right now as LGBTQ Barbadians grapple with the public attack of one of their own, while closeted teenagers at school listen with their heart in their throat to their classmates discuss who would have thrown more stones at that 'nasty so-and-so', when this segment of society is once again being treated as less valuable and less important than the rest of us I don't think it's the time or place for that.
I'm not interested in laying out an argument for or against the rightness or wrongness of homosexual sex in light of the bible right now. (I'll defer that to more qualified people.) There are various complicated opinions on that and some of us will have to agree to disagree I know.
An argument is not what anyone needs right now.
What is needed is some compassion. Some acknowledgement. Some solidarity.
Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Founder of the United Gays and Lesbians against AIDS Barbados (UGLAB) Darcy Dear, told the MIDWEEK NATION that it was time for the church to open their eyes to the fact that gays are targeted.
"The church…don't take it seriously…people do go out of their way to harm people that they think are different."
The church in Barbados is failing in this area.
We are caught up on our declarations of who is sinning, who is right and who is wrong, going so far as to declare that we would rather die than marry "them". In the midst of all the judgement - where is any compassion? Where is the love?
You shall know them by their love…
Love without a 'yes but…'
Love with no strings attached.
Can the church in Barbados love the LGBTQ community enough to stand up and declare that the hatred and violence expressed towards this young man is unacceptable? Can we do so without usurping the moment to preach? (Trust me, they know the church's general opinion about it all too well.)
Does the church love the LGBTQ community enough to not speak about them in degrading and belittling ways even when they disagree? Does the church love them enough to not over-simplify their experience or spread falsehoods about them?
Sometimes I feel as though the only way the church knows how to express love is by defining other people's sin. Somehow every conversation about loving and serving LGBTQ people turns into an inquisition. I'm tired of it - I imagine they must be too.
Can we quit preaching AT them for a moment and bite our tongues. Walk a mile in their shoes, spend a while examining their experience, see it from their point of view. Stop and listen, really, really, really listen.
Statistics say more than 95 percent of the population of Barbados is considered Christian. People are complicated and there will be people who believe and those who struggle to believe, those who go to church religiously and those who might maybe visit at Christmas. Some go to Mass some go to bible class.
On a train or on a plane… Some people are completely certain and others really really don't know at all. Life is complicated. The mysteries of God and existence and love and loneliness and right living and dying - they are complicated and sensitive and personal and communal.
Barbadian society is no doubt influenced and shaped by Christianity but you don't even have to agree with the church to see the merit in one of it's absolutely core teachings. It is said many ways..
Love your neighbour as yourself.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Love does no harm to a neighbour.
In my opinion, it's time for Barbadians to stop preaching at the LGBTQ community. They know the bible verses.
It's about time to actually show love in the way we speak and act.
Retired Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu once said,
"Opposing apartheid was a matter of justice. Opposing discrimination against women is a matter of justice. Opposing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is a matter of justice.
It is also a matter of love. Every human being is precious. We are all - all of us - part of God's family. We all must be allowed to love each other with honour. Yet all over the world, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people are persecuted. We treat them as pariahs and push them outside our communities. We make them doubt that they too are children of God. This must be nearly the ultimate blasphemy."
Barbados, please can we start speaking kindly about our brothers and sisters, to their face and behind their backs. Can we be patient when we don't understand them? Can we stand alongside them and fight against injustice, prejudice, discrimination?
At the very least I desperately hope that we can find the humility to remember we are all human, all imperfect… in different ways perhaps.
Who are any of us to cast stones?
Live Life | Serve by Jarrod McKenna from World Vision ACTS on Vimeo.
Wow, everyone! Thanks for reception. This is by far the most shared article I've ever written which goes to show there is a need for healthy discussion surrounding this topic! Love is the movement.
For those who are interested in the issue of LGBT people and the bible/church I can't recommend this book more highly. Seriously if you care at all about LGBT issues and are a Christian - read it. :)
(or even if you aren't)
The truth about the truth…
"What is truth?" - Pilate
"If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." - Jesus
Sometimes I wonder if people want truth at all. Really…
'Cause honestly, the truth usual sucks.
It's just there.
Staring us down whether we like it or not.
Numbers on a scale, digits in a bank account, a flat tire, a screaming child.
If truth is the reality of what actually is, sometimes we simply don't like it. In fact, we don't like it so much we ignore it, deny it, and hope by pretending it's not real, that it's not the truth. That's one of the many ways we treat the truth.
The other funny thing about truth is that everyone claims to love it, to know it and to own it. The realities of our lives that are tangible and undeniable? Those inconvenient truths are swept under the carpet. But big ideas about what is true? Concepts? Theories? Philosophies? Those things we own proudly and loudly.
We relish having the right ideas about things. We are not just willing but eager to fight about who has the right idea about things. We put on our armour of rhetoric and clever quips and wage bloody war against the offenders of truth. Our truth. Wait no, that can't be right, I mean THE truth. There is only one truth afterall. And of all people I must have it. Of all religions, mine must have it. Of all denominations, mine must have it. Of all churches, mine. Of all people, me. And you too of course. You believe all the same things I do…. right? What's that? I can feel a fight coming on…
Don't get me wrong. I believe that there is truth. One very real truth. But like a true postmodern I suppose, I also think I'm limited in my ability to fully grasp that truth. I think we all are. Like a
postmodernist first century thinker I think we only know in part, and any big truths we do grasp we hold in fragile chipped clay jars. I think there is great diversity of ideas because of this, and we have to have humility and wisdom as we each try our turn at guessing the bigger picture.
A first century writer once described faith as confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. And as hard as it is, I have faith. Yet in many ways I feel like it would be easier not to. I do what no happy person ought ever to do too much of, and I think. I think about what might be truth. "Truth…What is truth?" said Pilate. I have dipped my toes in the pools of atheism and agnosticism and sometimes sat there for a while. Believe me - I have tried to run away from Christianity and leave it's mystery and tensions and confusion behind me. But the love I see in a God that looks like Jesus haunts me, and heals me. And inevitably I can't outrun it. And so, sometimes reluctantly, I have faith. Confidence in what I hope to be true. Assurance about something I cannot prove. I see the blurry edges of a big truth and I hold on.
For dear life.
And this truth really does matter to me.
I have ideas about what I think the details of this truth are. Ideas that grow, and shift and change as I ask questions, and learn, and read and pray. I am caught in the taunt balance of having confidence in something big and powerful that I hope to be true, and knowing like Socrates, that the one thing I actually know - is that I know nothing.
It is a balancing act like no other. And I need a lot more humility than actually have to walk it.
And so thinking about 'truth' is hard all on it's own, yet there is something that makes all of this much harder…
In my honest search for life's big truths, I sometimes feel like I am forced to hide the truth about what I think about the truth. (Let see how many times we can overuse a word, am I right?)
Sounds strange doesn't it? No one is holding a gun to my head telling me to lie or keep silent. No one has threatened me… really…
But here's the thing. Because I find hope and see truth in Jesus as God and his life, death and resurrection - I am a Christian, as un-hipster as the label is. And because I'm a Christian, I talk with, discuss, spend time around and am generally in relationship with other Christians. I'm part of the universal group of people who believe in this thing. These people are the Church.
The thing about the church is - it can be a scary place to hang out. Now it's not supposed to be. It's supposed to be a group of people known for a ridiculous love for everyone. People who show selfless love and open wide our arms to welcome the rejects of society, the poor and the tired, the hopeless, the bullied, the bruised, the stressed out. The church is supposed to be a bunch of people that look like Jesus. And sometimes the church is great at those things, while other times it's not. I'm not faulting the church for not being perfect, mostly because I know that I'm not perfect. And if I want to see those things more in the church, I need to do those things more in my own life. I really do. I hope with time I will learn and am learning to grow more in loving others.
It's hard work, and that's why I need others who want to do that same thing. My family, the church. But again, the church is a scary place…
Why so scary?
Because, honestly, sometimes I don't feel welcomed there.
There. I've said it. This is my confession.
I feel unwelcome. I feel like an inconvenient truth. The type people want to sweep under the carpet and try to pretend isn't real.
I feel this way because Christians can get pretty defensive about the truth. I get it - Jesus was all about truth. He claimed to embody truth, an awesome truth that sets people free. It's a big deal. And when you really believe something is true, especially something great and good and amazing, you get defensive about it. I get defensive about it. I get it. Love delights in the truth. I'm not advocating dishonesty. I'm all for speaking the truth.
And the truth is, sometimes the church makes me feel unwelcome. Sometimes the church makes me feel like I need to hide who I am and what I really think because those things are not welcomed. And that saddens me, because as someone who has been in the church my whole life, I love the church. The church is my mother. And if as a child of the church I feel unwelcome, how much more so someone who isn't?
No one tells me I'm not welcome. And I know that a lot of my hangups are probably all in my own insecure head. On the contrary, people welcome and say they want me among them. Especially as a young adult - an age range notoriously absent from the church. People come to me and ask me, where are the young adults? Why are they gone? And sometimes the tired cynic in my head replies, "Why am I here?"
At the end of the day, I'm just trying to be honest. I call myself a Christian, even though I am ashamed of so much of what is done in the name of Christianity, but I do so because I'm being honest about what I believe about Jesus. So I don't disown the name. And I ask questions and I have opinions about God and the bible and theology because I'm just trying to honestly discover what God is like if there is a god. To find out what honestly makes sense to me. In life I just try to be honest about what I think is true… But I know I get it wrong. And I know other people have different opinions than I do about a lot of the details of what Truth is. And I am completely ok with that. Let's figure it out together, let's both please admit we don't really know what the truth is at all we're only kids trying to figure out a big puzzle and you might have one piece of the puzzle and I another and we might both be trying to put them in the wrong place. I'm happy to play with you. Honestly. But am I welcome? Really?
As a teenager I held to most 'conservative evangelical/pentecostal' views. And I felt welcome. But as I've grown I've changed, as we all do. And my honest search for what seems true to me has led me away from many of the ideas I used to hold. So am I still welcome? Because when you say that people can't be a Christian and believe in evolution…I feel unwelcome, because I do. It's not a belief or understanding I came to easily, and to have my relationship with God attacked over it hurts. When you talk about "liberals" as if they the enemy and feminists as if they are evil…I feel unwelcome. When you say that to vote for Marriage Equality is to vote against God. I feel unwelcome, because I think the church needs to radically rethink its view on homosexuality. I think so precisely because I care about how God wants us to treat people. (And I don't deny that many who disagree with me do also!). When you call authors and teachers that share ideas you may disagree with heretics, you are calling me a heretic, because quite often I share the same thoughts and questions they do.
I understand you have a truth to protect. But how big does the truth you protect stretch, and are you certain of it's edges? Historically Christians have disagreed about a lot a lot of things. And we have done so badly. Can we do better?
When Christians crack jokes about atheists as fools and idiots in their workplaces or on facebook, it makes me feel unwelcome. Because I sit alongside my agnostic friends who have to quietly keep their views to themselves for fear of the fight. For fear of the ridicule. It makes me feel unwelcome because I understand the feeling of just trying to search for truth and trying figure out what you honestly believe but feeling like you have to hide the conclusions you come to.
The feeling of being 'in the closet', afraid to come out. Tired of being so careful about who you will be honest with. Of hiding the truth for fear of a fight.
Is it ok to be honest? Will we still be welcomed? Is Jesus really enough?
If I say I think the church might be wrong about homosexuality…Is Jesus enough for me still to be welcomed? To feel welcomed?
Can I come out of the closet?
I accept evolution. And all the questions that come with that..
I don't believe that a God of love would torment sinners for an eternity for a life of finite brokenness.
I hope his love extends beyond the grave and is accessible and able to heal people even there.
I don't believe in "Penal Substitutionary Atonement" anymore. It doesn't make sense to me. I think Jesus' death was to appease our bloodthirsty ways and prove them wrong, not to appease a bloodthirsty God. God was on the cross in Jesus, and we were the killers. Not vice versa.
I don't believe our brokenness separates God from us. It makes us feel separated from God. The reality is nothing can separate us from God's love.
I don't believe that the Bible is the perfect word of God. I believe that Jesus is the perfect word of God whom all of the bible points to. Jesus showed us what God is like perfectly.
I believe in progressive revelation, not infallibility.
I believe that love fulfills the law.
Is better than the law.
It is the spirit of the law.
And love gives life.
I believe that love is non-violent whenever possible.
And it's possible far more than we are willing to believe.
I believe that love is not just a characteristic of God but the core identity of God.
I believe love and fear don't mix and messages of fear and intimidation aren't from God.
I don't believe God has favorite countries. Or people.
I believe people are inherently good - in our core being. Made in the 'image of God', made to love and be loved. But we are broken. Sometimes very broken. Total depravity is not our natural state. Jesus showed us what it meant to be truly human.
I believe God is big and cannot be boxed in or understood fully. Our best guesses are just guesses. I believe he is present in churches, and gardens and temples and living rooms and mosques and wherever people who are really looking for him are.
And there's a lot more…
But like Socrates,I really know one thing: that I know nothing. Like Paul, I know nothing but Jesus and his death.
None of these are new ideas, and I'm not alone in believing them. I know people will disagree with many of them…
So is Jesus enough?
Because I'm tired of hiding what I believe. But I'm also tired of defending what I believe. I don't mind talking about it. I do talk happily about it with people who want to talk - other kids with pieces of the puzzle and a curiosity about the bigger picture. But if you've got the complete picture already sorted out, and I'm just messing it up… If I "can't be a Christian and believe x" around you, if I am a heretic or false teacher, I'm sorry. I'm a messy puzzle player, I can't help it. I don't see the finished picture you see. I just can't hide the truth anymore. And I don't want to fight or defend anymore. If I am not welcome, I will go.
If I can't believe X and be a Christian, I won't. I don't need to have the label. And I can't pretend in order to fit in. It's exhausting. I'll love God and Jesus and keep doing my best. And if the church feels threatened by me, that's ok. Church is not found in four walls but in friendships and dinners and laughter and conversations with people who don't mind my messy ways.
So this is my confession of feeling tired and a bit unwelcome. A bit cynical and a bit scared. And it probably has a lot more to do with me and my hang ups and insecurities than it does with anyone else. But it's how I feel…the reality of what actually is. The truth.
Mind your words…
It's funny how specific stories from your childhood stick with you through the years. I often recall a conversation that happened as my mother was driving my younger brother and I home from school, slowly easing through afternoon traffic. I couldn't have been older than 9 or so and my brother a couple of years younger. Ever inquisitive, my brother spotted some contraption along the way and needed to find out more;
"Mom, what's that?"
"What's what?"
"That thing, mom, what is it?"
"Je ne sais pas", my mother casually replied.
"What does that mean?"
"I don't know", she responded.
Bewildered and frustrated my brother protested, "Whyyy would you saaay that if you don't know what it means!?!"
It took a lot of stifled laughter and careful wording to explain to him that she did in fact know what it meant, and it meant, that she didn't know. It never helped him figure out what the contraption was but his protest of frustration has stuck with me over the years.
"Why would you say that if you don't know what it means?"
Separation Anxiety
Raise your hand if you've ever been taught or heard the phrase that "sin separates us from God" ?
Yeah me too.
Like many other things, I was also told how to understand this saying.
I like this lady
Da Vinci and the Bible (without the Code)
We have a tendency to perceive our view as right, and others' views as wrong. We are very quick to say, "can you believe the things those people actually think", when truthfully, our view may be just as off base.
Maybe the majority of views hold elements of truth.
in a mirror dimly: Reflections on Easter
A good friend of mine, my youth pastor (as a youth) and now an elder at the church I'm in community at just started his own blog. A cyber-home for his very good thoughts.
Good Friday is a bit of a buzz-kill. I don't like to think about death. Most of us don't I would guess. It's the inevitable shadow at the end of the tunnel we would like to put off as long as possible and keep as far out of mind as possible.
The original good Friday must have been a…
I can't speak for my coreligionists, but, personally, I wish they'd break the bad habit of making supposedly authoritative scientific truth claims from the standpoints of theological orthodoxy and devotion to doctrine. The religious mind–which conceives the world in terms of myth, mystery, ritual and wonder–has its own value apart from the rational endeavors of the scientists and the philosophers. The religious mind seeks a unique truth, even when its truth discloses a reality also pursued in other disciplines. Its methods of inquiry and verification are different than those of science and philosophy. Let them dialogue, but let's not confuse them. Because each has its own truth to offer, religious faith and reason have much to say to one another. In my opinion, we benefit from listening to both and from cultivating a mind informed by both religiosity and reason.
Human beings may separate things into as many piles as we wish - separating spirit from flesh, sacred from secular, church from world. But we should not be surprised when God does not recognize the distinctions we make between the two. Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.
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10 things that inspire me.
in·spire/inˈspī(ə)r/: To fill (someone) with the urge or ability to do or feel something, esp. to do something creative.
Inspiration is sometimes an elusive, phantom. Other times an ocean to swim in. Either way it comes, it goes, it's here and there, but it is always needed. When I gathered this list I was in a particularly uninspired mood, floating along in the doldrums but ironically (or perhaps to be expected) the very act of putting together an 'inspiration list', was a uniquely inspiring process.
Here it goes…
Love your enemies…even if your enemy is a wreckless taxi driver who drives into the side of your car.
When Paul refers to 'the gospel', he is not referring to a system of salvation, though of course the gospel implies and contains this, nor even to the good news that there now is a way of salvation open to all, but rather to the proclamation that the crucified Jesus of Nazareth has been raised from the dead and thereby demonstrated to be both Israel's Messiah and the world's true Lord. 'The gospel' is not 'you can be saved, and here's how'; the gospel, for Paul, is 'Jesus Christ is Lord'.
…since the word 'gospel' was in public use to designate the message that Caesar was the Lord of the whole world, Paul's message could not escape being confrontative: Jesus, not Caesar, is Lord, and at his name, not that of the Emperor, every knee shall bow.
We, and our opinions and perspectives do not dictate what the Church is now and certainly not what it has been, and the experience of this loss of control is itself salutary. We are not the hub, the spring of significance, the norm of interpretation in the Church, and neither is any other one segment of the body. The Church was clearly blasphemously wrong for the greater part of two millenia on the subject of slavery; many would add that it has been no less wrong for even longer about the status of women. To be 'catholic' now means to resist the temptation to blot out and forget this past and the equally powerful temptation to condemn from a superior vantage-point. This kind of catholicity obliges us to recognize the Church's continuing liability to failure and betrayal … We can only be grateful that even a slave-owning church had just enough sensitivity to the challenge of the gospel for a protest to be generated (however slowly) and a new awareness - of which we are the direct beneficiaries - to come into being. This is a catholicity which may weep over the universal liability to error, yet rejoice at the universal pressure towards truth, penitence, and transformation.
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Parables retold
Matt Mikalatos had a similar upbringing to me (or I to him), having been fully imersed in Christian culture and education from soother to drivers license.
As he says here
One side effect of growing up in Christian culture can be a certain contemptuous familiarity with the Bible. I remember impatiently tapping my feet when we trotted out the Christmas story, begging for it to end so we could tear into the presents. I remember playing "Bible Trivial Pursuit" in sixth grade and thinking to myself, "I know everything there is to know about the Bible, except how to pronounce some of the names."
And having heard the stories over and over, it's hard sometimes to really hear things anew. It becomes difficult to get the initial impact that these unusual stories would have had on the original audience - a mottly mix of religious men, widows, children, tax collectors and fishermen all crowded around hearing some man talk about the truths of life not in theological treaties, but in stories. Unexpected stories.
Matt's retelling of these biblical parable brings back to life the messages that may have got lost somewhere among the flannel picture boards of my youth. Or perhaps the shouting preachers, badly animated tv specials or our preconceived ideas of what Jesus was really on about.
For a fresh look at some very old but powerful stories, have a look. I look forward to reading more from Matt. I really loved these.
Part One: The Teacher shares about a trip to the zoo
Part Two: The old woman who almost loses it
Part Three: Frank chases his dreams in Hollywood
Part Four: The lost son
Listen to this again:
Colorblindness has nothing to do with eradicating racism. It is about denying its existence and power.
That is the truth. We are all racists. We're hardwired to like people who are similar to us, and we're hardwired to be a little afraid of people who are different from us. It's part of our makeup. The thing is, though, that we don't have to let this be all we are. We can choose something better. Believe me: it is a choice. It's not an easy choice. It's not a choice we manage to make 100% of the time. But we can choose — we must choose! — to extend respect and dignity to all human beings.


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(Applause Books). It has been 150 years since Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables was first published. However, for the last 25 or so, the poignant saga of Jean Valjean, a villain to some but a savior to others, set in France during the early years of the 19th century, has become one of the world's most popular musicals and has become one of the must-see movies of 2013. In Les Miserables: From Stage to Screen , the reader can find out how the musical came to life the trials and tribulations of turning it from the initial concept into a thrilling musical extravaganza and how the new film version starring Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe and directed by the Oscar-winning Tom Hooper ( The King's Speech ) has emerged from the show that has been seen by over 60 million people worldwide. To bring this fascinating story to life, the book also contains at least 20 facsimiles that highlight key moments in the creation of Les Miserables , both on stage and on the screen, including: * Original costume sketches * Annotated scripts * Original music scores and librettos * Film screenplay extracts and anniversary mementos
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The Plague 1, Birds of Pray 2
G-1 J.Parker gave up 1 hit & 2 bb's in a CG 3-0 Birds win.A.J Ellis
homered in the win.
G-2. Birds broke open a 2-1 game with a 4 run 8th, highlighted by 2r HR's by C.Davis & C.Headley, who also hit a solo to break 1-1 tie in Birds 6-1 win. M.Montero 2/4 w/ RBI for Plague.
G-3 In a back & forth game, Plague took 5-4 lead in the 9th on a Y.Escobar S F, only to watch Birds tie it in The 9th on a passed ball by Montero.Plague then got The winning run on a double by Montero in the 12th.
Goldschmidt homered & Montero drove in 2 for Plague in 6-5 win.Birds got homers from Dirks(solo) & Hardy(2 run) in loss. Dirks(Birds) & Fowler(Plague ) also tripled.
Birds end 2nd period 31-29.
Lemonheads 1, Lymebees 2
Lymebees start final stretch to playoffs vs Lemonheads;
Game 1;Grenke vs Burnett; Bees score 2 in second on lead off HR by Braun and PB with Lowrie on third, Lemonheads get a two out bases loaded triple in fourth, single run in 5th, two out, two run HR by Butler in 8th and Lemonheads win 6-2.
Game 2; Cahill vs Gonzalez; Lemonheads get 2 run in 1st, Bees score 7 in bottom of first with 5 walks, both teams and single runs in 2nd, Bees score 3 in 4th and 4 in 6th and Lemonheads end scoring with 2 solo HR in 9th. Bees win 15-5.
Game 3; Iwakuma vs Bailey; Bees score on error in first, Butler hits solo HR in 4th, Bees score 1 run in bottom of 4th, Bees score again in 6th, Lemonhead get single runs in 7th and 8th to tie game at 3 each, Bees get game winner in 12th to win 4-3.
Bees record at 39-24 and scheduled to play next two Monday nights.
Birds of Pray 3, Speakers 0
G-1. Birds got rbi's from Gordon & Dirks in the 5th to break a scoreless
tie, & M.Gonzalez scattered 6 hits & gave up one unearned run
in C.G. 2-1 win.Verlander 7IP 4 hits 3BB 6k's 2 runs.
G-2 J.J.Hardy hit a 3r homer & RA Dickey threw a C.G.3 hitter. In Birds 3-1 win. Dickey had 10k's & 1bb.
Cargo led off 9th with solo hr for Speakers.
G-3 Y.Gallardo k'ed 12, 1BB & 3 hits in C.G. 3-0 Birds win, Speakers didn't have a baserunner reach 2nd, but did turn a triple play, Cargo to Castro to Rizzo in the 7th inning.
Birds sweep ups record to 35-31.Speakers 35-28.
Lymebees 2, Arrogant Bastards 1
Game 1; Rodriguez vs Bumgarner; Bastards get 3 runs in first and 1 run
in 3rd, Bees get 3 in bottom of 3rd and never get any closes. Bastards
win 4-3
Game 2; Hamel vs Burnett; Bastards get solo HR to lead off first, Bees get a 2 run HR by Braun in bottom of first, add 1 in 2nd and 2 runs in 3rd, Bastards get solo HR by Holiday if 4th, Bees get another 2 run HR by Braun in 5th and solo HR by Lowrie in 7th and win 8-2.
Game 3; Bastards get 2 runs in first, Bees get 5 runs in bottom of first with Cano hitting a 3 run HR, Bastards get 2 runs in 3rd and Bees get back to back doubles by Beltran and Lowrie in 8th and hold on to win 6-4.
Trout goes 7 for 14, 4 doubles, 1 HR and 3 multi hit games.
Bees record 41-25
Lymebees 1, The Plague 2
Game 1; Hammel vs Bailey, Falu solo HR in first, Bees score 6 in bottom
of first, Plague tie game with 5 runs in 3rd with Montero hitting 3 run
HR, Bees get 5 run in 4th and Plague get solo HR by Kipnis and 2 run HR
by Escobar in 6th but that would end the scoring and Bees hold on to win
Game 2; Sabathia vs Bumgarner, each team scores single run in 3rd, Cano solo HR in 4th, Santana hits 2 run HR in 6th and Plague and another run in 9th and win 4-2.
Game 3; Stults vs Burnett, Bees get 2 run HR by Gonzalez in 2nd, Plague get 1 run back in 3rd, Bees get solo HR by Ruiz in bottom of 3rd, Plague erupt for 5 in top of 4th and Bees get 2 run HR by Upton in bottom of 4th but could only come close in 6th but double play ends that and Plague go on to win 6-5.
Bees record at 42-27 with no games scheduled.
Lymebees 1, Speakers 2
Game 1, Gonzalez vs Harvey; Bees score 5 runs in 5th off Harvey and add
1 run in 6th as Gonzalez pitches 3 hit conplete game. Bees win 6-0.
Game 2, Bailey vs Verlander; Bees score 1 run in 1st, Speakers score 3 runs in 4th with solo HR by Moss and 2 run HR by Rizzo, add 4 runs in 5th with a 3 run HR by Heyward, Braun hit a solo HR in 9th as Speakers win 7-2.
Game 3, Tillman vs Hernandez; Bees score 1 run in 4th, Speakers tie it up with Heyward single in 5th, Castro doubles with 1 out in bottom of 10th to give Speakers a walk off 2-1 win.
Lymebees record 43-29.
Unhinged Wahoos 2, The Plague 1
Game one
Wahoos 5 The Plague 1
Wahoos attack led by homers from Carlos Gomez, Edwin Encarnacion, and stupid Josh Willingham. Rugged Ross Detwiler tosses a complete game gem while giving up 7 hits, an unacceptable 4 walks, and hitting two batters.
Game two
The Plague 9 Wahoos 8
Big fat Pedro Alvarez hit a homer, and Edwin Encarnacion and stupid Josh Willingham continued to rampage with another homer each but it wasn't enough to stop The Plague from batting around in the 6th and dropping seven runs on Tom Milone. Tori Hunter hit two bombs in the game and Mike Moustakas added a homer and three RBI to pace The Plague.
Game three
Wahoos 6 The Plague 5
Kyle Kendrick wasn't as horrible as usual, striking out ten and walking only two going the distance in this game. He still managed to cough up 4 earned runs, hit a batter, and combine with sweet Lou Marson on a passed ball. Edwin Encarnacion smashed another homer and gave 3 RBI to the Wahoos cause.
Wahoos now stand at 28-41.
Birds of Pray 2, Lemonheads 1
With 3 game Daylight series, teams play unusual games.
After getting only 4 xbh's in 3 games vs Eliminators , Birds hit 4 HR's & 3 doubles in 14-4 win. Votto, Davis, Headley & Hardy all homered.
Heads got HR from Sandoval.
Gallardo 2nd straight complete game.
Back & forth till Heads take 3-2 lead in 6th on Desmond out; Birds get 6th inning RBI's from Gordon, Votto & Davis & hold on for 5-4 win. B.Butler solo.
Heads get 3r HR from Ethier & solo from Hill & pound M.Moore & pen for 11 runs (5 earned) in 11-3 win.
Davis, Cruz, RBIs for Birds. Bird commit 5 errors.
Birds climb to 38 - 34 record.
Eliminators 2, Birds of Pray 1
Birds & Eliminators played 5 consecutive 1 run game before Eliminators
won by 2 runs in last game of series.The series was dominated by strong
pitching(or bad hitting) as two teams combined for 10 r - 28 h - 16 BB.
G-1 Birds get solo & S.F. From N.Cruz & a 9th inning pinch hit RBI single from Dirks , driving in an unearned run in 3-2 win.Eliminators got 1st inning RBI from LaCroy but left bases loaded.Birds pen threw 6 innings of no hit 1 walk 0 run ball.
G-2. Morrow throws 7 innings 4 hit 3 bb & McCutchen hits walk off in 9th in 2-1 Eliminator win.Eliminators had only 2 hits, both solos(Freeman). J.Parker 7IP 1 hit 2 bb 1 run. C.Davis solo for Birds .
G-3 J.Johnson 6 IP 3h 2bb 5k 0 runs,& Eliminators get RBIs from Freeman & C.Nelson in 2-0 win.Eliminators pen 3 hitless innings.
Teams combined for 9 extra base hits.
Birds pen threw 10.1 innings of 1 hit 1 run ball, & is 11-9 & 2.05 ERA for year.
Birds 1/17 w/ RISP.
Asian Tsunamis 1, Eliminators 2
Gm 1 - Eli 5 AT 4 (10 inn)
Two run HR's by Allen Craig and Ben Zobrist give the Tsunami's an early 4-0 lead. Jay Bruce's two run triple in the 8th tied the game at 4. Adam Jones hit a walk off double with two outs in the bottom of the 10th. The Eliminator bullpen did not allow the Tsunamis a hit over the final 3 2/3 innings highlighted by Sean Doolittle's 2 perfect innings for the win.
Gm 2 - Eli 4 AT 1
Eliminators take a 3-0 lead after two behind Andrew McCutchen's solo HR in the first and Neil Walker's two run HR in the second. The Tsunami's would rally with two outs in the 6th. Allen Craig's two out double cut the lead to 3-1. The Tsunami's would load the bases but Houston Street would strike out Yasmani Grandal to end the threat. The Tsunami's would again get the tying run on in the 8th but this time Junichi Tazawa would end the threat. AJ Griffin would get the win and Tazawa pitched a perfect 9th for the save.
Gm 3 - AT 3 Eli 2
Starters Felipe Paulino and Erasmo Ramirez matched each other through the first 4 innings. The Eliminators would break through in the 5th. Joe Mauer's two out double scored Jose Reyes to give the Eliminators a 1-0 lead. After 6 scoreless inning, Ramirez would turn the game over to the bullpen. A 3 run 7th inning highlighted by a two run homer by Josh Hamilton would give the Tsunamis the lead. The Eliminators would not go quietly in the bottom of the 9th. Jay Bruce would lead off the inning with a solo HR. The next two batters would get out before a walk to pinch hitter Curtis Granderson would chase starter Felipe Paulino. Kris Medlen would come in and walk the next two batters to load the bases, but he would induce a fly ball to left field by Jose Reyes to preserve the victory.
Eliminators now 43-41.....Tsunamis 50-37.
Eliminators 2, Shooting Stars II 1
Gm 1 - Eli 2 SS 1
Stars take the early lead in the second after DeWayne Wise steals 2nd and 3rd and scores on a squeeze by Justin Morneau. The Stars would threaten in the top of the 6th. Coco Crisp led off with a walk. Evereth Cabrera would steal 2nd and 3rd. The Stars would again try and squeeze....but this time it wouldnt work. A-Rod would reach 2nd in the subsequent run down. Tony Campana would pinch run and steal 3rd. Again, the Stars would attempt a squeeze and this time it resulted in a DP. The Eliminators would answer in the bottom of the 6th. Adam Jones would reach on a two out walk, steal 2nd, and then scored on a Neil Walker double. Andrew McCutchen would lead off the bottom of the 8th with a single. Emilio Bonaficio would pinch run and steal 2nd. After a Jay Bruce strike out, Bonifacio would reach 3rd on a wild pitch. Chris Nelson would ground out to 1st for the 2nd out. With 2 outs, Bonifacio would then steal home for what would turn out to be the winning run. Junichi Tazawa would get the last two outs in the ninth to preserve David Price's victory. Price would scatter 3 hits over 8 1/3 for the win.
Gm 2 - SS 6 Eli 5 (15 inn)
The Stars would load the bases in the 1st with no one out, but Eliminator starter Scott Diamond would limit the Stars to 1 run. Yunel Escobar and Matt Kemp would hit 2 run homers to push the Stars to a 5-1 lead after 3. The Stars would look to extend their lead in the 5th. A-Rod's third consecutive single followed by a Matt Kemp double with give the Stars 2nd and 3rd with no outs. The Stars would go to 1-2-3 after that and fail to score. In the bottom of the 5th, Neil Walker would lead off with a double. Jose Reyes would hit a two out single but Walker would be cut down at the plate to keep the Stars ahead 5-2. Chris Nelson's 2 run HR in the 6th, his second of the game, would get the Eliminators to within 1. Andrew McCutchen would reach based on a Ronald Bellisario error with one out in the 8th. Again, Emilio Bonifacio would pinch run but this time he would be thrown out trying to steal 2nd. Jay Bruce would follow with a solo HR to tie the game at 5. In the 10th, Matt Kemp would reach with a one out walk. Tony Campana would pinch run and steal 2nd and 3rd. Campana would then attempt a steal of home but would be caught in his attempt. Donovan Solano would then reach on an Emilio Bonifacio error. Evereth Cabrera would then steal 2nd and 3rd, but his attempted steal of home would also result in an out. In the 11th, the Eliminators would get 1st and 2nd with one out, but Vinny Pestano would struck out Curtis Granderson and Freedie Freeman to end the threat. Things would remain quiet until the 15th. A Dave Ross walk would start the inning. Yunel Escobar would reach on a fielder's choice and then take second on a WP. Dustin Pedroia would reach on a single and move Escobar to third. Pedroia would steal second. A-Rod would botch an attempted squeeze and Escobar would get tagged out while Pedroia would move to third. A-Rod would redeem himself with a two out single to give the Stars a 6-5 lead. Nate Jones would retire the Eliminators 1-2-3 in the bottom of the inning to secure the victory.
Gm 3 - Eli 2 SS 0
Two sacrifice flies in the bottom of the 1st would give the Eliminators a 2-0 lead. Chris Sale would pitch 7 2/3 shut out innings for the 2-0 win. The Stars would get the tying run to the plate in the 9th but Jose Mijares would retire the final two batters for the win.
Sunday, December 15, 2013 - Three series remain to finish the season......The Eliminators face the Arrogant Bastards, the Devil Dogs face the Plague and the Shooting Stars. The Asian Tsunamis are the 1 seed, the Speakers the 2 seed and the Lymebees the 3 seed. There are multiple scenarios involving the Birds of Pray, Eliminators, Lemonheads, Shooting Stars, and the Arrogant Bastards to determine the final two spots. Tomorrow night, the Eliminators will face the Bastards. The Eliminators need two wins to clinch a playoff spot, but a sweep by the Bastards would keep their playoff hopes alive. Two series will be played tomorrow.....good luck to all teams.
Arrogant Bastards 3, Eliminators 0
Gm 1 - AB 5 Eli 1
The first inning would sum up the night for the Eliminators.......Jose Reyes would reach on an error and steal 2nd. A Joe Mauer single would give the Eliminators first and third with no outs. After an Andrew McCutchen strikeout, Jay Bruce would hit into a double play to end the inning.....and this would just be the beginning of a night of futility. The Bastards would capitalize starting in the 3rd inning. Jeff Keppinger's RBI single would score Ichiro providing the early 1-0 lead. Kendry Morales would hit a two out 3 run homer in the 6th and the Bastards would never look back. Ryan Vogelsong would scatter 7 hits over 6 2/3 innings for the victory.
Gm 2- AB 3 Eli 1
Ten game winner David Price would try to change the Eliminator fortunes but it was rough going early. Former Eliminator Wilin Rosario would lead off the bottom of the second with a double followed by a Matt Holliday single. After a Matt Wieters strikeout, then Adam LaRoche walked to load the bases. Ben Revere followed with a two run single to provide a 2-0 lead. The Eliminators would try to mount a comeback in the top of the 4th. Johnathon Lucroy led off with a single followed by a Mark Texieria double. An Adam Jones sac fly would score Lucroy to cut the lead in half, but Brett Lawrie and Jay Bruce would follow with strike outs to end the threat. Then, the final blow would come in the top of the 7th. Jay Bruce's two out walk would chase Bastard starter Cliff Lee. Joel Hanrahan would come in to face Tyler Flowers. After much debate, the Eliminators would allow Flowers to hit. An 11 was dropped....Flowers had a 5.....and the Eliminators celebrated a possible two run homer, except a 5 against a 30 on first base becomes a 9. With runners on first and second, Neil Walker would struck out and the threat was ended. Mike Stanton's solo homer in the bottom of the 7th would give the Bastards a 3-1 lead. The Eliminators would get runners on first and second with two outs in the ninth,but Randy Choate was able to get Neil Walker to pop out for the final out of the game.
Gm 3 - AB 4 Eli 0
The final game of the series and season would be an elimination game. The loser would be finished for the year and be out of the play-offs while the winner would have the chance to make the post season by winning play-in games. The Bastards would score single runs in the first and second innings as they would cruise to a 4-0 victory. Mike Trout would lead off the bottom of the first with a solo homer and Ichiro's RBI single in the second would provide the early runs. The Bastards would tack on two runs in the seventh to provide the final count of 4-0. Max Scherzer would pitch a complete game allowing only 3 hits and striking out 12.
The Eliminator collapse was complete as they were eliminated from the play-offs. The three trades made to help push the team toward a possible title run were for naught as the team came up short for a title run.


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Inquiry-based learning
Inquiry-based learning (also enquiry-based learning in British English)[1] starts by posing questions, problems or scenarios -- rather than simply presenting established facts or portraying a smooth path to knowledge. The process is often assisted by a facilitator. Inquirers will identify and research issues and questions to develop their knowledge or solutions. Inquiry-based learning includes problem-based learning, and is generally used in small scale investigations and projects, as well as research.[2]
Inquiry-based learning is primarily a pedagogical method, developed during the discovery learning movement of the 1960s as a response to traditional forms of instruction - where people were required to memorize information from instructional materials.[3]
The philosophy of inquiry based learning finds its antecedents in constructivist learning theories, such as the work of Piaget, Dewey, Vygotsky, and Freire among others,[4][5][6] and can be considered a constructivist philosophy.
In the 1960s Joseph Schwab called for inquiry to be divided into four distinct levels.[7] This was later formalized by Marshall Herron in 1971, who developed the Herron Scale to evaluate the amount of inquiry within a particular lab exercise.[8] Since then, there have been a number of revisions proposed, but the consensus in the science education community is that there is a spectrum of inquiry-based teaching methods available.[citation needed]
Inquiry learning emphasizes constructivist ideas of learning, where knowledge is built from experience and process, especially socially based experience. Under this premise learning develops best in group situations.[citation needed] Progress and outcomes are generally assessed by how well people develop experimental and analytic skills, and often how well they work in groups.[citation needed]
Inquiry-based learning covers a range of approaches to learning and teaching, including:
- Field-work
- Case studies
- Investigations
- Individual and group projects
- Research projects
Specific learning processes that people engage in during inquiry-learning include:[9]
- Creating questions of their own
- Obtaining supporting evidence to answer the question(s)
- Explaining the evidence collected
- Connecting the explanation to the knowledge obtained from the investigative process
- Creating an argument and justification for the explanation
More recently, Heather Banchi and Randy Bell (2008) suggest that there are four levels of inquiry-based learning in science education:[10]
- confirmation inquiry,
- structured inquiry,
- guided inquiry and
- open inquiry.
In confirmation inquiry, people are provided with the question and procedure (method) where the results are known in advance, and confirmation of the results is the object of the inquiry. Confirmation inquiry is useful to reinforce a previously learned idea; to experience investigation processes; or to practice a specific inquiry skill, such as collecting and recording data.
In structured inquiry, people are provided with the question and procedure (method), however the task is to generate an explanation that is supported by the evidence collected in the procedure.
In guided inquiry, people are provided with only the research question, and the task is to design the procedure (method) and to test the question and the resulting explanations. Because this kind of inquiry is more open than a confirmation or structured inquiry, it is most successful when people have had numerous opportunities to learn and practice different ways to plan experiments and record data.
In open inquiry, people form questions, design procedures for carrying out an inquiry, and communicate their results.
Some Guiding Principles for Educators [11]
- Don't wait for the perfect question
- Place ideas at the centre
- Work towards common goal of understanding
- Don't let go of the class
- Remain faithful to the students' line of inquiry
- Teach directly on a need-to-know basis
Inquiry-based science[edit]
History of Science Education
Inquiry learning has been used as a teaching and learning tool for thousands of years, however, the use of inquiry within public education has a much briefer history.[12] Ancient Greek and Roman educational philosophies focused much more on the art of agricultural and domestic skills for the middle class and oratory for the wealthy upper class. It was not until the Enlightenment, or the Age of Reason, during the late 17th and 18th century that the subject of Science was considered a respectable academic body of knowledge.[13] Up until the 1900s the study of science within education had a primary focus on memorizing and organizing facts. Unfortunately, there is still evidence that some students are still receiving this type of science instruction today.
John Dewey, a well-known philosopher of education at the beginning of the 20th century, was the first to criticize the fact that science education was not taught in a way to develop young scientific thinkers. Dewey proposed that science should be taught as a process and way of thinking – not as a subject with facts to be memorized.[12] While Dewey was the first to draw attention to this issue, much of the reform within science education followed the life-long work and efforts of Joseph Schwab. Joseph Schwab was an educator who proposed that science did not need to be a process for identifying stable truths about the world that we live in, but rather science could be a flexible and multi-directional inquiry driven process of thinking and learning. Schwab believed that science in the classroom should more closely reflect the work of practicing scientists. Schwab developed three levels of open inquiry that align with the breakdown of inquiry processes that we see today.[14]
1. Students are provided with questions, methods and materials and are challenged to discover relationships between variables
2. Students are provided with a question, however, the method for research is up to the students to develop
3. Phenomena are proposed but students must develop their own questions and method for research to discover relationships among variables
Moving Forward Toward Modern Science Education
Today, we know that students at all levels of education can successfully experience and develop deeper level thinking skills through scientific inquiry.[15] The graduated levels of scientific inquiry outlined by Schwab demonstrate that students need to develop thinking skills and strategies prior to being exposed to higher levels of inquiry.[14] Effectively, these skills need to be scaffolded by the teacher or instructor until students are able to develop questions, methods, and conclusions on their own.[16] A catalyst for reform within North American science education was the 1957 launch of Sputnik, the Soviet Union satellite. This historical scientific breakthrough caused a great deal of concern around the science and technology education the American students were receiving. In 1958 the U.S. congress developed and passed the National Defense Education Act in order to provide math and science teachers with adequate teaching materials.[17]
The National Science Education Standards (NSES) (1996)[15] outlines six important aspects pivotal to inquiry learning in science education.
1. Students should be able to recognize that science is more than memorizing and knowing facts.
2. Students should have the opportunity to develop new knowledge that builds on their prior knowledge and scientific ideas.
3. Students will develop new knowledge by restructuring their previous understandings of scientific concepts and adding new information learned.
4. Learning is influenced by students' social environment whereby they have an opportunity to learn from each other
5. Students will take control of their learning .
6. The extent to which students are able to learn with deep understanding will influence how transferable their new knowledge is to real life contexts.
Inquiry Science Education
Inquiry used within an educational setting is recognized as both a learning objective and a teaching methodology. Inquiry activities are developed to give students ample opportunity to explore, apply prior knowledge, examine, extend understanding toward new learning, and to evaluate their progress of developing new understandings. Inquiry education is most effective when students are able to recognize the importance or validity of their learning and how it can be applicable to their own lives.[16]
Inquiry learning involves developing questions, making observations, doing research to find out what information is already recorded, developing methods for experiments, developing instruments for data collection, collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data, outlining possible explanations and creating predictions for future study.[17] There are many different explanations for inquiry teaching and learning and the various levels of inquiry that can exist within those contexts. The article titled The Many Levels of Inquiry by Heather Banchi and Randy Bell (2008)[17] clearly outlines four levels of inquiry. The progression seen from level one through four provides an excellent guide for how to scaffold inquiry learning skills for your students.
Level 1: Confirmation Inquiry The teacher has taught a particular science theme or topic. He or she then develops questions and a procedure that guides students through an activity where the results are already known. This method is great to reinforce concepts taught and to introduce students into learning to follow procedures, collect and record data correctly and to confirm and deepen understandings.
Level 2: Structured Inquiry The teacher provides the initial question and an outline of the procedure. Students are to formulate explanations of their findings through evaluating and analyzing the data that they collect.
Level 3: Guided Inquiry The teacher only provides the research question for the students. The students are responsible for designing and following their own procedures to test that question and then communicate their results and findings.
Level 4: Open Inquiry Students formulate their own research question(s), design and follow through with a developed procedure, and communicate their findings and results. This type of inquiry is often seen in science fair contexts where students drive their own investigative questions.
Banchi and Bell (2008) explain that teachers should begin their inquiry instruction at the lower levels and work their way to open inquiry in order to effectively develop students' inquiry skills. Open inquiry activities are only successful if students are motivated by intrinsic interests and if they are equipped with the skills to conduct their own research study. Teachers facilitating this type of learning also need to have a deep understanding of how to appropriately conduct experiments or research so that students can be guided and re-directed throughout their own studies.[18]
Misconceptions about Inquiry
There are several common misconceptions regarding inquiry-based science, the first being that inquiry science is simply instruction that teaches students to follow the scientific method. Many teachers had the opportunity to work within the constraints of the scientific method as students themselves and figure inquiry learning must be the same. Inquiry science is not just about solving problems in six simple steps but much more broadly focused on the intellectual problem-solving skills developed throughout a scientific process.[15] Additionally, not every hands-on lesson can be considered inquiry.
Some educators believe that there is only one true method of inquiry, which would be described as the level four: Open Inquiry. While open inquiry may be the most authentic form of inquiry, there are many skills and a level of conceptual understanding that the students must have developed before they can be successful at this high level of inquiry.[16] While inquiry science is considered to be a teaching strategy that fosters higher order thinking in students, it should be one of several methods used. A multifaceted approach to science keeps students engaged and learning.
Not every student is going to learn the same amount from an inquiry lesson; students must be invested in the topic of study to authentically reach the set learning goals. Teachers must be prepared to ask students questions to probe their thinking processes in order to assess accurately. Inquiry-science requires a lot of time, effort, and expertise, however, the benefits outweigh the cost when true authentic learning can take place.
Application of Inquiry-based Science
Inquiry-based learning is fundamental for the development of higher order thinking skills. According to Bloom's Taxonomy, the ability to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate information or new understandings indicates a high level of thinking.[19] Teachers should be encouraging divergent thinking and allowing students the freedom to ask their own questions and to learn the effective strategies for discovering the answers. The higher order thinking skills that students have the opportunity to develop during inquiry activities will assist in the critical thinking skills that they will be able to use in other subjects.
Inquiry-based learning in other disciplines[edit]
Science naturally lends itself to investigation and collection of data, but it is applicable in other subject areas where people are developing critical thinking and investigation skills. In history, for example, Robert Bain in his article in How Students Learn, describes how to "problematize" history.[20] Bain's idea is to first organize a learning curriculum around central concepts. Next, people studying the curriculum are given a question and primary sources such as eye witness historical accounts, and the task for inquiry is to create an interpretation of history that will answer the central question. It is held that through the inquiry people will develop skills and factual knowledge that supports their answers to a question. They will form an hypothesis, collect and consider information and revisit their hypothesis as they evaluate their data.
Open learning[edit]
An important aspect of inquiry-based learning (and science) is the use of open learning.[citation needed] Open learning has no prescribed target or result that people have to achieve. There is an emphasis on the individual manipulating information and creating meaning from a set of given materials or circumstances.[21] In many conventional and structured learning environments, people are told what the outcome is expected to be, and then they are simply expected to 'confirm' or show evidence that this is the case.
Open learning has many benefits.[citation needed] It means students do not simply perform experiments in a routine like fashion, but actually think about the results they collect and what they mean. With traditional non-open lessons there is a tendency for students to say that the experiment 'went wrong' when they collect results contrary to what they are told to expect. In open learning there are no wrong results, and students have to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the results they collect themselves and decide their value.
Open learning has been developed by a number of science educators including the American John Dewey and the German Martin Wagenschein.[citation needed] Wagenschein's ideas particularly complement both open learning and inquiry-based learning in teaching work. He emphasized that students should not be taught bald facts, but should understand and explain what they are learning. His most famous example of this was when he asked physics students to tell him what the speed of a falling object was. Nearly all students would produce an equation, but no students could explain what this equation meant.[citation needed] Wagenschien used this example to show the importance of understanding over knowledge.
Cindy Hmelo-Silver reviewed a number of reports on a variety studies into problem based learning.[22]
Edelson, Gordin and Pea describe five significant challenges to implementing inquiry-based learning and present strategies for addressing them through the design of technology and curriculum. They present a design history covering four generations of software and curriculum to show how these challenges arise in classrooms and how the design strategies respond to them. [23]
|After a half century of advocacy associated with instruction using minimal guidance, there appears no body of research supporting the technique. In so far as there is any evidence from controlled studies, it almost uniformly supports direct, strong instructional guidance rather than constructivist-based minimal guidance during the instruction of novice to intermediate learners. Even for students with considerable prior knowledge, strong guidance while learning is most often found to be equally effective as unguided approaches. Not only is unguided instruction normally less effective; there is also evidence that it may have negative results when student acquire misconceptions or incomplete or disorganized knowledge
— Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching by Kirschner, Sweller, Clark [24]
Kirschner, Sweller, and Clark (2006)[24] review of literature found that although constructivists often cite each other's work, empirical evidence is not often cited. Nonetheless the constructivist movement gained great momentum in the 1990s, because many educators began to write about this philosophy of learning.
Hmelo-Silver, Duncan, & Chinn cite several studies supporting the success of the constructivist problem-based and inquiry learning methods. For example, they describe a project called GenScope, an inquiry-based science software application. Students using the GenScope software showed significant gains over the control groups, with the largest gains shown in students from basic courses.[25]
In contrast, Hmelo-Silver et al. also cite a large study by Geier on the effectiveness of inquiry-based science for middle school students, as demonstrated by their performance on high-stakes standardized tests. The improvement was 14% for the first cohort of students and 13% for the second cohort. This study also found that inquiry-based teaching methods greatly reduced the achievement gap for African-American students.[25]
Based on their 2005 research, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute concluded that while inquiry-based learning is fine to some degree, it has been carried to excess.[26]
Richard E. Mayer from the University of California, Santa Barbara, wrote in 2004 that there was sufficient research evidence to make any reasonable person skeptical about the benefits of discovery learning—practiced under the guise of cognitive constructivism or social constructivism—as a preferred instructional method. He reviewed research on discovery of problem-solving rules culminating in the 1960s, discovery of conservation strategies culminating in the 1970s, and discovery of LOGO programming strategies culminating in the 1980s. In each case, guided discovery was more effective than pure discovery in helping students learn and transfer.[27]
It should be cautioned that inquiry-based learning takes a lot of planning before implementation. It is not something that can be put into place in the classroom quickly. Measurements must be put in place for how students knowledge and performance will be measured and how standards will be incorporated. The teacher's responsibility during inquiry exercises is to support and facilitate student learning (Bell et al., 769-770). A common mistake teachers make is lacking the vision to see where students' weaknesses lie. According to Bain, teachers cannot assume that students will hold the same assumptions and thinking processes as a professional within that discipline (p. 201).
While some see inquiry-based teaching as increasingly mainstream, it can be perceived as in conflict with Standardized testing common in Standards-based assessment systems which emphasise the measurement of student knowledge, and meeting of pre-defined criteria, for example the shift towards 'fact' in changes to the 'National Assessment of Educational Progress' as a result of the American No Child Left Behind program.
Programs such as the International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Program can be criticized for their claims to be an inquiry based learning program. While there are different types of inquiry (as stated above) the rigid structure of this style of inquiry based learning program almost completely rules out any real inquiry based learning in the lower grades. Each "unit of inquiry" is given to the students, structured to guide them and does not allow students choosing the path or topic of their inquiry. Each unit is carefully planned to connect with the topics the students are required to be learning in school and does not leave room for open inquiry in topics that the students pick. Some may feel that until the inquiry learning process is open inquiry then it is not true inquiry based learning at all. Instead of opportunities to learn through open and student led inquiry the IB program is viewed by some to simply be an extra set of learning requirements for the students to complete.
References and further reading[edit]
- ^ The UK dictionaries Collins and Longman list the spelling "inquiry" first, and Oxford simply calls it another spelling, without labeling it as US English.
- ^ What is Inquiry Based Learning (EBL)? Centre for Excellence in Enquiry-Based Learning. University of Manchester. Retrieved October 2012
- ^ Bruner, J. S. (1961). "The act of discovery". Harvard Educational Review 31 (1): 21–32.
- ^ Dewey, J (1997) How We Think, New York: Dover Publications.
- ^ Freire, P. (1984) Pedagogy of the Oppressed, New York: Continuum Publishing Company.
- ^ Vygotsky, L.S. (1962) Thought and Language, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- ^ Schwab, J. (1960) Inquiry, the Science Teacher, and the Educator. The School Review © 1960 The University of Chicago Press
- ^ Herron, M.D. (1971). The nature of scientific enquiry. The school review, 79(2), 171-212.
- ^ Bell, T., Urhahne, D., Schanze, S., and Ploetzner, R. 2010. Collaborative inquiry learning: Models, tools, and challenges. International Journal of Science Education. 3(1), 349-377.
- ^ Banchi, H. and Bell, R. (2008) The Many Levels of Inquiry. The Learning Centre of the NSTA. Retrieved October 2012
- ^ http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/literacynumeracy/inspire/research/CBS_InquiryBased.pdf
- ^ a b National Research Council. 2000. Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards: A Guide for Teaching and Learning. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
- ^ Murphy, M. (2006). The History and Philosophy of Education: Voices of Educational Pioneers Upper Saddle River, NJ.: Pearson Education, Inc. ISBN 0130955507
- ^ a b Schwab, J. 1966. The Teaching of Science. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
- ^ a b c National Science Education Standards. (1996). National Academy Press. Washington, DC.
- ^ a b c Banchi, H., & Bell, R. (2008). The Many Levels of Inquiry. Science and Children, 46(2), 26-29.
- ^ a b c National Institute for Health. (2005). Doing Science: The Process of Science Inquiry. http://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih6/inquiry/guide/info_process-a.htm
- ^ Yoon, H., Joung, Y. J., Kim, M. (2012). The challenges of science inquiry teaching for pre-service teachers in elementary classrooms: Difficulties on and under the scene. Research in Science & Technological Education, 42(3), 589-608.
- ^ Krathwohl, D. R. (2002). A revision of Bloom's Taxonomy: An overview. Theory Into Practice, 41(4), 212-218.
- ^ Bain, R.B., Donovan, M.S. & Bransford, J.D. (Eds).(2005). "They thought the world was flat?": Applying the principles of How People Learn in teaching high school history. How Students Learn. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press. http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309074339
- ^ Hannafin, M., Land, S., Oliver, K. (1999). Open learning environments: Foundation, methods, and models. In C. M. Reigeluth (Ed.), Instructional-design theories and models. A new paradigm of instructional theory Volume II (pp. 115-140). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
- ^ Hmelo-Silver, C. (2004) Problem Based Learning: What and how do students learn. Educational Psychology Review, Vol. 16, No. 3, September 2004
- ^ Edelson, D., Gordin, D., Pea, R. (1999) Addressing the Challenges of Inquiry-Based Learning Through Technology and Curriculum Design . Edelson, Daniel, Douglas Gordin, and Roy Pea. Journal of the Learning Sciences 8.3 (1999): 391-450.
- ^ a b Kirschner, P. A., Sweller, J., and Clark, R. E. (2006) Why minimal guidance during instruction does not work: an analysis of the failure of constructivist, discovery, problem-based, experiential, and inquiry-based teaching. Educational Psychologist 41 (2) 75-86
- ^ a b Scaffolding and Achievement in Problem-Based and Inquiry Learning: A Response to Kirschner, Sweller, and Clark (2006) Hmelo-Silver, Duncan, & Chinn. (2007). Educational Psychologist, 42(2), 99–107
- ^ Tonsho, R. (2006) What's the Right Formula? Pressure From New Tests Leads Educators to Debate How Best to Teach Science. Wall Street Journal, 19 January 2006 (p. A09)
- ^ Mayer, R. (2004). Should there be a three-strikes rule against pure discovery learning? The case for guided methods of instruction. American Psychologist 59 (1): 14–19.
See also[edit]
- Action learning
- Jerome Bruner
- Discovery learning
- McMaster Integrated Science
- Networked learning
- Jean Piaget
- Problem-based learning
- Progressive inquiry
- Science education
- Scientific literacy
- Three-part lesson
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The New York Rangers paid a visit to the Bell Centre in Montreal. The game featured some nice hitting on both sides and some power play opportunities. The Rangers never got on track in this contest.
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Turtle Mountain Community College
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Turtle Mountain Community College is a tribal college in Belcourt, North Dakota. TMCC is located ten miles from the Canadian border in Turtle Mountain, the north central portion of North Dakota. TMCC's enrollment is 630 full and part-time certificate and degree-seeking students.[1]
TMCC was founded by the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in 1972. TMCC was chartered to the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in November, 1972. [2]
The main campus is located just north of the unincorporated city of Belcourt. Belcourt is the center of the reservation community's government, commerce, and education for the more than 31,000 enrolled members of the tribe. The main campus houses a 165,000 square foot academic building on an approximately 123 acre site. The facility houses technology, finance, general classrooms, science, math and engineering classrooms and labs, library and archives, learning resource centers, faculty area, student services area including a student union, gymnasium, auditorium, career and technical education facility, and mechanical. A wind turbine was erected in 2008 to serve as a source of power to the main campus. [3]
TMCC offers certification and associate's and bachelor's degree programs. TMCC offers a six-year Associate degrees in seven subjects as well as four-year Bachelor degrees in elementary and secondary science. [4]
TMCC is a member of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC), which is a community of tribally and federally chartered institutions working to strengthen tribal nations and make a lasting difference in the lives of American Indians and Alaska Natives. TMCC was created in response to the higher education needs of American Indians. TMCC generally serves geographically isolated populations that have no other means accessing education beyond the high school level. [5]
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From Winnie the Pooh, to The Cure, to cocktails - a good mom is supportive, no matter what you're into. Thanks for the birthday bottles, Mom!
Reuse your bottles! I spotted these re-purposed liquor bottles at the Indie Craft Experience in Atlanta this weekend. Curious as to how they cut off the tops, my husband asked the crafters how they did it - they used a tile saw. Not sure I'm into using blades that large, so I'll buy a few from them.
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Birmingham, AL (Sports Network) - Garrick McGee was introduced as head coach at UAB on Monday, leaving his position as offensive coordinator at Arkansas, where he was named a finalist for the Broyles Award as one of the country's top assistants.
"This is a great day for UAB and UAB football," said athletic director Brian Mackin.
The search for a new coach was started after Neil Callaway retired on November 27 following five seasons as head coach of the Blazers.
Mackin said McGee's deal was finished Sunday night, but news of his hiring was leaked earlier than that when Arkansas head coach Bobby Petrino congratulated his former assistant in a statement released Saturday.
McGee, who was in his fourth season at Arkansas and second as offensive coordinator, said his it's his "mission as a football coach to use the sport to train and develop young me to be better people and to make the proper decisions in life."
Mackin noted McGee's "impressive resume" and said UAB "was looking for a coach that would bring a new level of energy and passion to the job."
McGee, a former Oklahoma quarterback, is the fourth head coach at UAB. Before he was hired at Arkansas, he spent four seasons in various positions at Northwestern, including quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator in 2006 and '07.
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