You can learn something by being told and even shown. You can memorize it, take a test for assessment and do well, but later in life, will you remember it? If you learn it and use it, you will retain it even if you don't use it again for a long time. Inquiry -based learning is like "riding a bike". Once you've done it, it will come back to you.
It's one thing to memorize and remember short term, it's another to understand. Inquiry-based involves the student. It invites them to ask questions. The why and how of education. Historical thinking, which is the way I was taught, is about the what. It's learning facts and being able to regurgitate them on a test. It doesn't ask the student to ask questions and inquire about why something is or what the implications of something are. For example, historical thinking would give a student facts about the civil war, inquiry based would have the student think about why the war may have happened, what could have prevented it and what the ramifications of it were.
Inquiry-based learning is long term. A student learns how to learn and question, not just how to remember so that they can pass a test.
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