If your students canthe answer

you may be asking the WRONG questions.

Brian Housand, Ph.D. brianhousand.com bit.ly/

rrisd2014

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If your students can GOOGLE the answer...

You may be asking the WRONG questions!

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DID

RECALL

≠ UNDERSTANDING

1) In what year was the first U.S. postage stamp issued? !

2) Who was on it? !

3) How much did it cost?

IDENTIFY Important Questions

LOCATE Information

CRITICALLY EVALUATE

SYNTHESIZE Information

COMMUNICATE Answers

NEW LITERACIESnewliteracies.uconn.edu

Fiction f rom Truth using Evidence

“Every man should have a

built-in automatic

crap detector operating

inside of him.”

-- Ernest Hemingway

TRIA

NGULA

TION

WHO WROTE THIS

INFORMATION? !

WHEN WAS THE ARTICLE WRITTEN?

!

CAN THE INFORMATION BE VERIFIED FOR ACCURACY?

BLUFF THE INTERNET

SEARCHER

agoogleaday.com

google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation

AGGREGATOR

LiveBinders

TRY THIS! GENERIC SENTENCE FRAMES

“Who are…” “When did…” “Why does…” “What will happen if…”

WHO

WHAT WHEN

WHERE WHY

HOW

IS

DID CAN

WILL MIGHT

SHOULD COULD WOULD

bit.ly/middleschooldrawntolife

WHAT ABOUT MATH?

Google Trends

101qs.com

books.google.com

wonderopolis.com

geoguessr.com

geosettr.com

writingprompts.tumblr.com

The whole process of education should

thus be conceived as the process of

learning to think through the solution

of real problems. !

-- John Dewey, 1938

Real World Problems Academic Rigor

Technology Integration

www.ecugifted.com

ANSWERS ARE EASY.

It’s asking the right questions

which is hard.- T H E D O C T O R

RefineQuestions

Can the question be answered by

making observations,

collecting data,

making measurements,

and/or changing variables?

Can the question be

narrowed and focused enough to look at a SINGLE variable?

Do we have access to the NECESSARY materials to help us answer the question?

We need students to get more DEEPLY INTERESTED in things,

more INVOLVED in them, more ENGAGED in wanting to know,

to have projects that they can get EXCITED about and work on

o v e r l o n g p e r i o d s o f t i m e , to be STIMULATED

TO FIND THINGS OUT ON THEIR OWN.- Gardner

What do you think?

Why do you think that?

How do you know this?

Can you tell me more?

What questions do

you still have?

If your students canthe answer

you may be asking the WRONG questions.

Brian Housand, Ph.D. brianhousand.com bit.ly/

gagc2014