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If your students can the answer you may be asking the WRONG questions. Brian Housand, Ph.D. brianhousand.com bit.ly/ rrisd2014
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If your students canthe answer
you may be asking the WRONG questions.
Brian Housand, Ph.D. brianhousand.com bit.ly/
rrisd2014
brianhousand.com
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
