21C Superpowers, episode 5: Enaction
In a network, enacting open, participatory inquiry graphs.
Let’s unpack that.
In A Network
This means, divesting from catgifs, selfies, uninformed opinion and content marketing.
Enacting
Enaction is a new account of cognition, at levels from the cellular to the social. Enacting is inviting ourselves to different activity, action premised on enaction, action mindful of aliveness on all levels, from cellular life to social and planetary.
Inquiry
Action-reflection learning, holding generative space where questions can be crafted, posed and combined with developing scenarios and seeing problems from new perspectives.
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)[16] clearly outlines four levels of inquiry.
Level 1: Confirmation Inquiry
The teacher has taught a particular science theme or topic. The teacher 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 provides only 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/True 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.
Digital Open Inquiry
A next generation of social machines, premised on a next level dynamic knowledge graphs, co-evolving with open inquiry.
Social Machine
A social machine is an environment comprising humans and technology interacting and producing outputs or action which would not be possible without both parties present.
Participatory Inquiry
Inquiry, Open Inquiry and Social Machines, applied to social, societal, cultural and civilizational processes and domains.
Dynamic Knowledge Graphs
Knowledge graphs, evolving in response to and in service to, our social graphs, our circles of friends, concern, influence and confluence.
Sacred Epistemology
How are we to know? Flow. Flow is how we know.
21C Superpowers, episode 5: Enaction
