FOSIL, Education and School Libraries
by Elizabeth Hutchinson
Latest episode
Reading Is Inquiry: Helping Students Make Sense of Their World
Reading Is Inquiry: Helping Students Make Sense of Their World
About this podcast
Welcome to our podcast where we hope to help you engage with the content on the FOSIL Group Website, introduce you to people using FOSIL in schools and most of all just have a conversation about the role of school librarians within education.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 32 episodes
- Reading Is Inquiry: Helping Students Make Sense of Their World · 53 minWhat if reading is more than a skill, or even a pleasure, but a way for students to understand themselves and the world around them? Darryl Toerien and I welcome Gabrielle Mace…
- Inquiry as Conversation: Who Does the Thinking? · 50 minIn Part 2 of our conversation with Gabrielle Mace, we continue exploring the ideas behind Teaching Inquiry as Conversation. You can listen to Part 1 here. This time, we ask a…
- What Happens When We Let Students Wonder? · 53 minIn this episode, we’re joined by Gabrielle Mace to explore the connections between deep reading, inquiry and the school library. We discuss Gabrielle’s work developing immersive…
- Inquiry as Conversation: FOSIL, School Libraries and the Future of Learning · 59 minIn this episode of FOSIL, Education and School Libraries, Darryl and I are joined by Barbara Stripling to explore how inquiry learning can transform school libraries, the…
- Four Domains of Thought (Part 2): Information and the Ability to Think · 37 min · Episode 28This second part of the conversation continues through Dallas Willard’s account of cognition and intentionality, working with four interrelated domains of thought: ideas, images…
- Four Domains of Thought (Part 1): Ideas and Images · 51 min · Season 4 Episode 27This first part of a two-part conversation (we did honestly try to do this in one episode) explores Dallas Willard’s account of cognition and intentionality, working with four…
- Why does it Matter? How do we, as School Librarians, answer this question? · 43 minCelebrating 3 years of chat and 15 years of friendship! Thanks to everyone for listening and making this podcast worthwhile. Today we discussed Pope Leo's first encyclical…
- Generative AI through Inquiry (Part 4) · 51 minWelcome to FOSIL, Education and School Libraries Podcast, where Darrly Toerien and I (Elizabeth Hutchinson) talk about what we feel is important in school libraries and education…
- Generative AI through Inquiry (Part 3) · 47 minWelcome to FOSIL, Education and School Libraries Podcast, where Darrly Toerien and I (Elizabeth Hutchinson) talk about what we feel is important in school libraries and education…
- Generative AI Through Inquiry (Part 2) · 48 minWelcome to FOSIL, Education and School Libraries Podcast, where Darrly Toerien and I (Elizabeth Hutchinson) talk about what we feel is important in school libraries and education…
- Generative AI through inquiry (Part 1) · 39 minWelcome to FOSIL Education and School Libraries, a conversation about liberal education, signature inquiry, and how generative AI fits, or doesn’t, into real classroom practice…
- Clarifying the purpose of education · 34 minI am always grateful to have time to chat with Darryl Toerien about school libraries, FOSIL and inquiry. Today, we start to explore the need to clarify the purpose of education…
- Update: FOSIL, Books and the Institute of Advancement of Inquiry. · 23 minIt has been a while since Darryl and I got together, October half term to be precise, so we thought it was time to give you an update. We both have books coming out and Darryl…
- Inquiry Learning: Can Schools Do It Without Libraries? · 43 minWe start this podcast with an update. Where are we now with FOSIL and inquiry learning? If you want to skip this part and just listen to our focused discussion, please start at…
- Beyond the Symposium: The Future of School Libraries and Inquiry Learning · 33 minIn this episode of FOSIL Education and School Libraries, we reflect on the key ideas and developments following the recent FOSIL Symposium. With support from the likes of David…
- The FOSIL Symposium Taster · 50 minIn 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…
- Are you Teaching Research Skills or Inquiry? · 56 minEngaging and Empowering School Libraries, a general school library podcast, and FOSIL, Education and School Libraries, a podcast that focuses on teaching through inquiry, came…
- Redefining the Role of School Libraries in Education · 39 minThis episode explores the librarian’s evolving role in education, sharing practical strategies for fostering collaboration between teachers and librarians to create meaningful…
- Breakthrough moments: Year 9 signature work inquiry · 44 minThe work on FOSIL continues with Darryl practising what he preaches. Is this something we can all take and use or is it just great for him because he has been steeped in it for…
- FOSIL, Education and School Libraries a New Year... Looking Ahead · 45 minFOSIL, Education and School Libraries is a podcast that aims to encourage and support you to think of school libraries in a different way. We hope to develop your understanding…
