Who is the Inquiry Hub for?
The Inquiry Hub is for all types of learners who share a passion for knowing and investigation and have an interest in using technology to seek answers to their questions. The Inquiry Hub will appeal to families who are seeking a smaller, cooperative learning environment where students can focus on their interests individually and in small teams – those who:
Want a chance to apply their learning in a practical way
Are interested in research and learning with technology
Find structured classes do not meet their learning needs
Are interested in learning through social networks
Desire to work on projects which make a difference
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Now Accepting Application Forms for September 2012…
This application form is required for each student wishing to apply to attend the Inquiry Hub in the 2012/2013 school year.
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About The Inquiry Hub
Connect - Create – Learn
This is the process behind the Inquiry Hub, a new initiative by Coquitlam Open Learning and School District #43. The COL Inquiry Hub is a full-time grade 8-12 program which brings students together in a technology-facilitated environment and encourages them to explore their own questions from key themes:
- Community and global issues
- Environmental sustainability
- Media Art, design and technology
The Inquiry Hub offers the following benefits for students:
- Instruction which blends classroom and online experiences in a hybrid model
- A student-driven inquiry approach to learning
- Significant reduction of formally structured class time and emphasis on a learning commons where students do daily group project work and individual, computer-based learning
- Class environments which group students around interests and project focus rather than grade levels
- Parents and community as active learning partners
- Extensive use of peer mentorship in cross-grade project work
- Core, inquiry-based program offerings which are extended through the extensive list of COL online courses
