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Darryl Toerien

@fosilinquiry.bsky.social
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Originator of FOSIL and the FOSIL Group at fosil.org.uk | Head of Inquiry-Based Learning at Blanchelande College

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Darryl Toerien @fosilinquiry.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Now used #HeroicInquiry (2.1) with my Yr 9 (Gr 8) & my Yr 2 (Gr 1) Signature Work classes. Delighted by depth of engagement & level of detail that even Yr 2 picked up on. E.g., binary code in record of knowledge, & in spider — information overload. Also, noise in serpent — information disorder.
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Darryl Toerien @fosilinquiry.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
"Education is education for freedom. And the world within which it has to fulfill its duties is sick with a frustrated longing for freedom and beauty, and has unlearned the primary conditions and requirements for freedom." (Maritain, 1962, pp. 100-101).
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Darryl Toerien @fosilinquiry.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I realised that I never posted the passage from *A Canticle for Leibowitz*.
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Darryl Toerien @fosilinquiry.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Reading *Parable of the Talents* (1998) by Octavia E. Butler. Pairs well, unfortunately, with *A Canticle for Leibowitz* (1959) by Walter M. Miller Jr, which the 60th Anniversary Edition (2019) describes as "The Classic Novel of a Future Dark Age".
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Darryl Toerien @fosilinquiry.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
All resources linked to CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 release of #HeroicInquiry (2.1) now openly & freely available via #FOSILGroup Forum update to *Session 2b: Darryl Toerien & Hugh Rose (Heroic #Inquiry)* tinyurl.com/3wr4a5wv Posters also openly & freely available via #FOSILGroup Resources tinyurl.com/ytxvjdca
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Darryl Toerien @fosilinquiry.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
“I believe that, in any society, as conviviality is reduced below a certain level, no amount of industrial productivity can effectively satisfy the needs it creates among society's members.” (end piece)
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Darryl Toerien @fosilinquiry.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Very pleased to have accepted an invitation from Dr David Loertscher to join the Editorial Board of Learning Hub - "an open access and peer-reviewed journal addressing school libraries throughout the world" - at San José State University.
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Darryl Toerien @fosilinquiry.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The #FOSILinquiry 2025 Symposium proceedings are now openly and freely available tinyurl.com/FOSILForum2025 A dedicated sub-Forum with a Topic for each session, including link to recording(s), PPT presentation(s), and supplemental material. YouTube playlist of recordings at tinyurl.com/FOSIL2025
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Darryl Toerien @fosilinquiry.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The #FOSILinquiry 2025 Symposium proceedings are now openly and freely available tinyurl.com/FOSILForum2025 A dedicated sub-Forum with a Topic for each session, including link to recording(s), PPT presentation(s), and supplemental material. YouTube playlist of recordings at tinyurl.com/FOSIL2025
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Darryl Toerien @fosilinquiry.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Looking forward to the #FOSILinquiry Symposium on 8 February, which is free, online & will be recorded tinyurl.com/47xhvpf7. Join more than 200 colleagues from around the world sharing thoughts on and strategies for developing engaged & empowered inquirers.
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Darryl Toerien @fosilinquiry.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
“By 1970 we [CIDOC - the Center for Intercultural Documentation in Cuernavaca, Mexico] had found that:
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Darryl Toerien @fosilinquiry.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Update to #FOSILGroup Forum | #Inquiry and resource design | *Year 11 (Grade10) GCSE Business Studies Enterprise #Inquiry* tinyurl.com/9z3e4vyf.
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Darryl Toerien @fosilinquiry.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Update to #FOSILGroup Forum | #Inquiry and resource design | *Year 6 (Grade 5) Interdisciplinary Signature Work #Inquiry at Blanchelande College tinyurl.com/f2dbc9ve.
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Darryl Toerien @fosilinquiry.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Update to #FOSILGroup Forum | The Nature of #Inquiry and #InformationLiteracy | *Discussing Education, Libraries & #FOSILinquiry with @elizabethutch.bsky.social* tinyurl.com/5f43xnm5. Contextual information about *FOSIL 2025 Symposium* tinyurl.com/47xhvpf7 on Saturday 8 February - free & online.
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Darryl Toerien @fosilinquiry.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
New Topic in #FOSILGroup Forum | The Nature of #Inquiry and #InformationLiteracy | *Making Sense of and Constructing Meaning From Information* tinyurl.com/5n8tncze.
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Darryl Toerien @fosilinquiry.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Announcing the first #FOSILinquiry Symposium on 8 February, which is free & online <tinyurl.com/47xhvpf7>. While the practical focus of the Symposium is FOSIL, it is not exclusively so - the broader concern is developing engaged & empowered inquirers. Thanks @elizabethutch.bsky.social for hosting.
Programme for the inaugural FOSIL Symposium on 8 February, which is free and online.
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Darryl Toerien @fosilinquiry.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
"Science, & especially empirical psychology, by itself, can neither primarily found nor primarily guide education, for education needs primarily to know what man is – what are the constituent principles of his being, his place & value in the world, his destiny“ (Maritain, 1962, p. 51).
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Darryl Toerien @fosilinquiry.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Update to #FOSILGroup Forum | The nature of #inquiry and #InformationLiteracy | *ChatGPT et al* <tinyurl.com/2a89eahn>. With thanks to @carlbergstrom.com and @jevinwest.bsky.social for *Calling Bullshit*, and then to @shahanmemon.bsky.social for *automating bullshit*.
Blanchelande College CPD on *Responsible Use of AI* and FOSIL Group Forum post on Calling and Automating Bullshit.
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Darryl Toerien @fosilinquiry.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Reposting this first post by way of introducing myself.
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Darryl Toerien @fosilinquiry.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
First post. Link to new column for UK #SchoolLibrary Association | *Between the #Library and the #Classroom 2.1* tinyurl.com/mv8h4vba. Rebooting the case/ need for #school to be foundational to the reality-based community of error-seeking inquirers upon which #LiberalDemocracy depends (Rauch, 2021).
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