Authentic Education - What Is an Essential Question? - 0 views
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The big-idea questions signal that education is not just about learning “the answer” but about learning how to learn.
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lkryder on 22 Jun 14In art history this helps with relevance to the students
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A second connotation for “essential” refers to key inquiries within a discipline. Essential questions in this sense are those that point to the big ideas of a subject and to the frontiers of technical knowledge. They are historically important and very much “alive” in the field.
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By actively exploring such questions, the learner is helped to arrive at important understandings as well as greater coherence in their content knowledge and skill.