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