1.
If your students can
the answer
you may be asking the
WRONG questions.
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2.
BRIANHOUSAND.COM

3.
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4.
If your students can GOOGLE the answer...

5.
You may be asking the WRONG questions!

6.
RECALL ≠
UNDERSTANDING

7.
http://www.bbcamerica.com/doctor-who/wp-content/blogs.dir/18/files/2011/10/doctorwho_s05_e00_21_tardis__x-large.jpg

8.
ANSWERS ARE
EASY.
It’s asking the
right questions
which is hard.
- THE DOCTOR

9.
Y2K

10.
32 1
Words
Questions
Metaphor

11.
32 1
Words
Questions
Metaphor

12.
DID

13.
1) In what year was the first
U.S. postage stamp issued?
2) Who was on it?
3) How much did it cost?

14.
NEW LITERACIES
newliteracies.uconn.edu
IDENTIFY Important Questions
LOCATE Information
CRITICALLY EVALUATE
SYNTHESIZE Information
COMMUNICATE Answers

15.
Fiction f rom
Truth using
Evidence

16.
“Every man
should have a
built-in
automatic
crap detector
operating
inside of him.”
-- Ernest Hemingway

17.
News Feed

18.
TRIANGULATION

19.
WHO
WROTE THIS
INFORMATION?
WHEN WAS
THE ARTICLE WRITTEN?
CAN THE INFORMATION BE
VERIFIED FOR ACCURACY?

20.
WILL THE ROYALS WIN
THE WORLD SERIES?
A. YES!!!
B. NO.
C. Who are the Royals?
D. Can’t say just yet.

21.
BLUFF THE
INTERNET
SEARCHER

22.
agoogleaday.com

23.
google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation

24.
INTERNET
RESEARCH

25.
AGGREGATOR

26.
LiveBinders

27.
radioshackcatalogs.com

28.
books.google.com

29.
WHAT ABOUT MATH?

30.
101qs.com

31.
Google Trends

32.
wonderopolis.com

33.
geoguessr.com

34.
geosettr.com

35.
writingprompts.tumblr.com

36.
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

37.
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

38.
TEDed

39.
If your students can
the answer
you may be asking the
WRONG questions.
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