Using the Web To Support Inquiry-Based Literacy Development.

learning in the classroom; in independent st udies; in libraries, museums, and communiti es; and in all the arenas of life in which people attempt to make sense of experience and gro w. In 1868, Charles Sanders Peirce proposed the idea of communities of inquiry to account for the way that people construct knowledge in collaboration with others. He argued that what is real depends on the d ecision of the community. When we consid er how an invariant curriculum ill suits a cha nging world, his idea seems even more re levant now than when he first articulated it. In order to foster such a community, we ha ve employed Web-based communication and knowledge-building tools such as the Inqu iry