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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/
NCAGT2014
brianhousand.com
2014ARKANSAS NEBRASKA CALIFORNIA NORTH CAROLINA GEORGIA MONTANA SOUTH CAROLINA TEXAS WASHINGTON CONNECTICUT ALABAMA KANSAS FLORIDA MARYLAND
If your students can GOOGLE the answer...
You may be asking the WRONG questions!
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WHO
WHAT WHEN
WHERE WHY
HOW
IS
DID CAN
WILL MIGHT
SHOULD!COULD!WOULD
DID
RECALL ≠ UNDERSTANDING
With great power comes great responsibility
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?
I
BLUFF THE INTERNET
SEARCHER
agoogleaday.com
google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation
THE ILLUSION OF CHOICE
AGGREGATOR
LiveBinders
bit.ly/middleschooldrawntolife
WHAT ABOUT MATH?
Google Trends
101qs.com
wonderopolis.com
TYPE III INDEPENDENT OR SMALL GROUP INVESTIGATIONS
PRODUCTS AND/OR PERFORMANCES
TYPE I GENERAL
EXPLORATORY ACTIVITIES
!
TYPE II METHODOLOGICAL
TRAINING / HOW-TO ACTIVITIES
!
(Renzulli, 1977)
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
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
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 can
the answer
you may be asking the WRONG questions.
Brian Housand, Ph.D. brianhousand.com bit.ly/
Cag2014
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