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The Question

Published on Nov 20, 2015

Helping students develop deeper/non-googleable questions to guide their research.

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

The Question

IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE ANSWER
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Examples

Non-Googleable vs. Googleable Q's
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What is a rainbow?

How tall is a rainbow?

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What is a zombie?

Was the first zombie cursed by a witch or was it just a man dressed up in a zombie costume?

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overpopulation?

What is
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If we all lived forever and it got really squishy, would we have to live underground or in space?

What is a crocodile?

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How can crocodiles be alive if they were alive at the time of dinosaurs?

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How does the answer matter?

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Your Driving Q

Choose 1 or 2 non-Google-able Q's
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____________(insert wondering)_______, and what have we learned from that today?

Very important Q's

to get us started
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#1: What do I need to know to answer this Q?

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What do I need to know?

  • (30 sec) THINK!
  • (1:30) write ideas in box
  • You can write statements or questions!
  • Ideas should be "non-googleable"

Example: What do I need to know

about buying a new car?
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#2: Where can I go (without limitation) to find information on this topic?

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No limitations?

What does it mean?
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Where can i go?

  • (30 sec) THINK!
  • (1:30) Write ideas (1 idea per post-it)
  • Teams of 4
  • (1:30) Think-Write-RoundRobin
  • everyone writes - don't write doubles

wall of No limits

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one Q leads to

another Q
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What further questions do you have about your driving question? This will help guide your research.

Rainbow example

Why we do this

Our brains will give us what we ask for.

next Steps?