The FOSIL Symposium Taster
From FOSIL, Education and School Libraries by Elizabeth Hutchinson
January 25, 2025 · 50 min
About this episode
This episode provides contextual information about the FOSIL 2025 Symposium and the colleagues sharing insights.
In this episode, we provided some contextual information about the colleagues who will be sharing their valuable insights with us during the FOSIL 2025 Symposium on Saturday 8 February, which is free, online and will be recorded. The Symposium marks 15 years of thoughtful and purposeful development of FOSIL (2010), and 6 years of the FOSIL Group (2019). Elizabeth and I met in 2011, so she has been a companion on this journey since almost the very beginning. These are my preparatory notes on colleagues in order of appearance, with Elizabeth introducing Ruth Maloney and Jannath Khanom, who she has a closer working relationship with. Both Ruth and Jannath have made deeply thoughtful contributions to the FOSIL Group Forums . — I met Dianne and Jennifer at the IASL 2019 Conference in Dubrovnik , where I had been asked to deliver a keynote presentation – Between the Classroom and the Library (notice a recurring theme!) – following the IFLA 2019 World Library and Information Congress in Athens . Dianne and Jennifer had been instrumental in developing the deeply thoughtful Alberta Inquiry Model as part of Focus on Inquiry: A Teacher’s Guide to Implementing Inquiry-based Learning . You…
People in this episode
Host: Elizabeth Hutchinson
Guests: Ruth Maloney, Jannath Khanom
Topics covered
- FOSIL Symposium
- inquiry-based learning
- education
- school libraries
- professional development
Keywords
- FOSIL
- Symposium
- education
- inquiry
- school libraries
- professional development
- Ruth Maloney
- Jannath Khanom
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: FOSIL Group
Books & works: Focus on Inquiry: A Teacher’s Guide to Implementing Inquiry-based Learning
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