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The Great Question Press - 3 views

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shared by kris draper on 04 Jan 11 - Cached

When was Shaw off base and lacking in judgment?
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Questions work together as a system. As we begin to orchestrate various question types in the pursuit of understanding, we expand our capacity to think and act in smart ways. We gain in our ability to collect and fashion intelligence rooted in reality rather than presumption or wishful thinking. We are protected somewhat from bias, ideology and narrow thinking.
- kris draper on 18 Jan 11
  
  I think the anti-bias benefit is important -- information today is plentiful but often biased, and students need tools to question and analyze their sources.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I think the anti-bias benefit is important -- information today is plentiful but often biased, and students need tools to question and analyze their sources.</div>
  
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fective teachers will shifting question types throughout the year so that students must wrestle with all of them.
- kris draper on 18 Jan 11
  
  Love this -- start with understanding an issue or topic, then use that understanding to persuade, build/invent, etc.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Love this -- start with understanding an issue or topic, then use that understanding to persuade, build/invent, etc.</div>
  
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Drill and practice combined with highly scripted lessons stressing patterns and prescriptions amount to mental robbery - setting low standards for disadvantaged students so they end up incapable of thought or success on demanding tests.
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If you teach young ones to question and probe, you equip them to do well on all kinds of tests - state tests, classroom tests and the tests of life.
- kris draper on 18 Jan 11
  
  also robs of curiosity and wonder...incentive to pursue independent learning
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">also robs of curiosity and wonder...incentive to pursue independent learning</div>
  
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If you teach young ones to question and probe, you equip them to do well on all kinds of tests - state tests, classroom tests and the tests of life.
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No more hunts for simple facts - deadly, tiresome and lacking in value, mind-numbing activities without import.
- Carrie Faust on 18 Jan 11
  
  These skills are easily addressed using journalism classes. Students are asked to probe and question with every article they pursue. In fact, journalism meets all the requirements of the 21st century learner. Here is a document I recently help put together: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PUihPwbeIQ-u9izi1F-HmdWtzPRrhFR-U_u-quYtqTk/edit?hl=en#
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">These skills are easily addressed using journalism classes. Students are asked to probe and question with every article they pursue. In fact, journalism meets all the requirements of the 21st century learner. Here is a document I recently help put together: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PUihPwbeIQ-u9izi1F-HmdWtzPRrhFR-U_u-quYtqTk/edit?hl=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PUihPwbeIQ-u9izi1F-HmdWtzPRrhFR-U_u-quYtqTk/edit?hl=en</a>#</div>
  
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Galileo Educational Network Association - 1 views

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shared by kris draper on 04 Jan 11 - Cached

Moreover, it is questions that spark the imagination that permit young and old to journey together into unknown realms.
- kris draper on 18 Jan 11
  
  Not the teacher as holder of all "right answers" and student as one without answers.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Not the teacher as holder of all "right answers" and student as one without answers.</div>
  
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