Brian Housand, Ph.D. brianhousand.com East Carolina University If Your Students Can Google the Answer, You May Be Asking the Wrong Question Thanks to ubiquitous digital information devices, finding the answer to most questions is only an Internet search away. Now more than ever, we must teach our students to be critical consumers of the information that they encounter, and we must reinvest ourselves in posing questions that involve application and synthesis.

1. If your students can
the answer
you may be asking the
WRONG questions.
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10. If your students can GOOGLE the answer...

11. You may be asking the WRONG questions!

12. RECALL ≠
UNDERSTANDING

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

16. Y2K

20. 32 1
Words
Questions
Metaphor

22. 32 1
Words
Questions
Metaphor

23. DID

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

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

27. Fiction f rom
Truth using
Evidence

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

30. News Feed

31. TRIANGULATION

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

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

37. BLUFF THE
INTERNET
SEARCHER

38. agoogleaday.com

39. agoogleaday.com

40. google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation

42. INTERNET
RESEARCH

43. AGGREGATOR

45. LiveBinders

52. radioshackcatalogs.com

53. books.google.com

54. WHAT ABOUT MATH?

55. 101qs.com

57. Google Trends

60. wonderopolis.com

61. geoguessr.com

62. geosettr.com

63. writingprompts.tumblr.com

64. 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

65. 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

66. TEDed

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