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"Questions can be extraordinary learning tools. A good question can open minds, shift paradigms, and force the uncomfortable but transformational cognitive dissonance that can help create thinkers. In education, we tend to value a student’s ability to answer our questions. But what might be more important is their ability to ask their own great questions–and more critically, their willingness to do so."
Beth Dichter's insight:
How do you teach your learners to ask good questions? This post shares many resources to help you learn new skills that will assist you in teaching others. The post begins with a visual, the Teach Thought Learning Taxonomy, which is a template for critical thinking that looks at cognition across six categories. This is described in depth. Additional tools shared include: * Socratic Discussion which includes a video from Tch (the Teaching Channel) * Paideia Seminar - "an integrated literacy event built around formal whole class dialogue. The purpose for doing Paideia Seminar is to support students’ ability to think conceptually and communicate collaboratively." There is also a video. * The Question Game (which was shared previously on this Scoop.it) * Bloom's Taxonomy * Question Formation Technique - See the visual at the top, or check out their website at The Right Question Institute. If this is of interest to you they are presenting a workshop in Boston in July. Information on this is available at their website. * Universal Question Stems and Basic Question Stem Examples This is actually part 2 of a two part post. The first post is A Guide to Questioning in the Classroom. 
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"Big idea: Teaching kids to ask smart questions on their own A four-year-old asks on average about 400 questions per day, and an adult hardly asks any. Our school system is structured around rewards for regurgitating the right answer, and not asking smart questions – in fact, it discourages asking questions. With the result that as we grow older, we stop asking questions. Yet asking good questions is essential to find and develop solutions, and an important skill in innovation, strategy, and leadership. So why do we stop asking questions – and more importantly, why don’t we train each other, and our future leaders, to ask the right questions starting from early on?"
Beth Dichter's insight:
What are the questions students should ask to help them problem solve? What questions should we help students learn to ask at an early age? Warren Berger, who wrote A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas suggests that the "question needs to be phrased openly and positively in order to achieve positive results." He also suggests three questions: * Why questions help to find the root of the problem * What If questions open the floor for creative solutions * How questions focus on developing practical solutions The article explores this in more depth and provides directions to The Question Game. You can see the cube you can create in the image above. Although this was written by a parent and discusses how she used it with his children this could be used in a classroom. You may find that you would like to have more than one cube (and therefore additional questions).
Gust MEES's curator insight,
February 8, 2015 7:03 AM
Big idea: Teaching kids to ask smart questions on their own A four-year-old asks on average about 400 questions per day, and an adult hardly asks any. Our school system is structured around rewards for regurgitating the right answer, and not asking smart questions – in fact, it discourages asking questions. With the result that as we grow older, we stop asking questions. Yet asking good questions is essential to find and develop solutions, and an important skill in innovation, strategy, and leadership. So why do we stop asking questions – and more importantly, why don’t we train each other, and our future leaders, to ask the right questions starting from early on?"
Learn more: - http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Critical-Thinking 
Jewelelelel's curator insight,
February 8, 2015 7:56 AM
I agree with the fact that recently,students have been 'trained' to give the correct and not ask smart questions.In school ,teachers usually ask us questions and if we answer that correctly, we get praised.For subjects sciences and humanities require a lot of questioning and thinking in order to understand and to learn more quickly.In my opinion, i think that teachers should give students a chance to ask questions that they have and not go through a topic blindly.If the students is shy to ask, the teacher could create a website so that the whole class can ask questions whenever they feel like and both the teachers and students themselves can answer the questions.This would enable the student to think out of the box to ask and answer questions by themselves |
Great starting point.
SOME TIMES KNOWING THE RIGHT QUESTION TO ASK WILL GET THE RIGHT ANSWER FOR THE PROBLEM YOU ARE TRYING TO SOLVE!! IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TO ASK YOU MAY NOT GET THE RIGHT ANSWER FOR YEARS BUT THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION THAT WAS ASKED!?!