How ‘curious’ are you? How aware are you of the questions your ask and pursue? How well do you listen and react to the questions of others? What do you do to honor, nurture, and sustain your question-asking capabilities?
All of these metrics are becoming increasingly important in the work and workforce. This session will explore how we can begin to prepare students for this growing demand. I promise you will leave with more questions that you came with.
5. The average
four year old
asks over a
100
How ‘bout theirs?
questions a day.
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6. The best predictor of success is
how innately curious
Nobel Laureate Professor Thomas Südhof
a person or candidate is. It’s been a better predictor than anything els
I have seen for actually doing something interesting and of impact.”
Intelligence is often overrated.
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20. Tiger Tyagarajan, chief executive of Genpact,
“Curiosity opens up so many other windows.You’re more
inclusive. You question more, and you listen.
In today’s world, if you’re not curious, you’re dead,
because every day is so different from yesterday.”
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58. CQ
1. I ask questions in class.
2. My questions are simple and easy.
3. I feel comfortable asking difficult questions
4. I can identify and emulate the strategies of
5. I believe curiosity is important and can
Name:
Grade:
Class:
curious people.
articulate why to myself and others.
or leaving questions I ask unanswered.
Please rate the following on a scale of 1 to 5
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Total Score
/25
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59. Misconceptions Truths
▪Questions are done to
readers
▪Questions are asked by
someone else (teacher)
▪Occur at the end of the task
▪Used for assessment purposes
▪Have a“right” answer
▪Success is determined by speed
and accuracy of the answers.
▪Good learners spontaneously,
purposefully ask questions
before, during and after
experience
▪Good learners know asking
questions deepens their
understanding
▪Good readers have the
knowledge and ability to ask many
different kinds of questions
▪Good readers use questions for
many different purposes.
▪Good learners understand the
best questions have no easy
answers
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60. • I wonder
• Why
•What does this mean
•Your question made me think of
•How come
•Why is it that
•How is ______ like_________
•What would happen if
Language of Questioning
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61. A good question is like a good workout.
It’s difficult, but you feel great after
you answer it.
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65. ambitious yet
actionable
shifts the way we
think or perceive
serves as a catalyst to
bring about change
A beautiful question is
?
?
?
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72. ambitious yet
actionable
shifts the way we
think or perceive
serves as a catalyst to
bring about change
A beautiful question is
?
?
?
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73. 69
65 countries -
122,000 classrooms
$24,000
Sponsor 7 children
Can you believe a class of 23
students are building a library in a
country across the world?
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76. Everything in the Universe Is Made of Math – Including You
but Newton was the only one
-Bernard Baruch-
Millions saw the apple fall
brave enough to ask
WHY?
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