Facilitating Curiosity
Published on Nov 19, 2015
Essential Questions and Inquiry-based Research
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If you stole an egg from a robin's nest, then hatched it in an incubator and raised it with chicks, would the grown bird cluck or sing? (g5pvsd)
Bateman, Walter L. Open to Question: The Art of Teaching and Learning by Inquiry. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1990. Print.
How did the chicks in the incubator grow up to cluck like chickens instead of humming like an incubator?
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Bateman, Walter L. Open to Question: The Art of Teaching and Learning by Inquiry. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1990. Print.
Facilitating
Curiosity
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What makes a good student?
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What makes a good learner?
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How do we respond to curiosity?
Berger, Warren. A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. Print.
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"..people who defer too much to the authority of their elders' ideas are less likely to transcend them."
Leslie, Ian. Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It. N.p.: n.p., 2014. (Kindle edition).
Who is curious?
Berger, Warren. A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. Print.
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Developing Curiosity
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Curiosity is vulnerable to benign neglect.
Leslie, Ian. Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It. N.p.: n.p., 2014. (Kindle edition).
Types of Curiosity
- Diversive
- Epistemic
- Empathetic
Leslie, Ian. Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It., 2014. (Kindle edition).
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Essential Questions
negotiable, controversial, speculative
McTighe, Jay, and Grant P. Wiggins. Essential Questions: Opening Doors to Student Understanding. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, 2013. Print.
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Uncover the depth of a topic
rather than simply
covering the topic
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Essential
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Guiding
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In a room, there is a table and some broken glass. Mary lies in a pool of water. John is standing over her. How did Mary die?
Do students know how to ask good questions?
Rothstein, Dan, and Luz Santana. Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education, 2011. Print.
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Question Formulation Technique
Rothstein, Dan, and Luz Santana. Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education, 2011. Print.
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Rothstein, Dan, and Luz Santana. Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education, 2011. Print.
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Dan Meyer - Perplexity
http://blog.mrmeyer.com/
Meyer, Dan. "Math Class Needs a Makeover." TED. TED Conferences, LLC, Mar. 2010. Web. 14 Sept. 2014..
http://blog.mrmeyer.com/
Meyer, Dan. "Math Class Needs a Makeover." TED. TED Conferences, LLC, Mar. 2010. Web. 14 Sept. 2014.
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