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1. Paige Jaeger
Think Tank Library
Librarydoor.blogspot.com
LET OUR
STUDENTS
…THINK!

5. According to PEW and the Kaiser Family Foundation… 7.5 Hours?
For 7.5
hours?
http://www.dbadesigns.com/posts-occasional-rants/kids-use-social-media/
Game of Thrones?
Binge Viewing?
Flipped Classrooms?
Open
24-7 Cybraries
Online Portals,
Blogging,
Knowledge Presentation
Stations…

6. Millennials
Millennials
(and(and ourour
culture…)
culture…)
Noisy…Online

7. Nicholas Carr:
“Once I was a scuba diver
in the sea of words. Now I
zip along the surface like
a guy on a Jet Ski.”

9. ACCESS … No problem
Synthesize?
Analyze?

10. If your assignment can be
answered on Google, then it is
void of higher level thought.
Why bother?

11. If your assignment can be
answered on Siri, it is void of
higher level thought.
Why bother?

12. Your Turn:
Who is
smarter?

13. 0 Do we have enough food in the world?
0 Total arable land ÷ world population?
0 Total potable water ÷ world population?
0 Why should I care about potable water and
arable land?
0 If you were living in the 1850’s would you
have gone west, young man?

14. # 1
Make sure your
assignment is NOT
answerable via
Siri
Make sure your
assignment is NOT
answerable via
Siri

15. “In all your “getting,”
get understanding.”
Proverbs 4:7

16. Those doing the
Those doing the
thinking, are doing
thinking, are doing
the learning…
the learning…
News FLASH!

17. SYNTHESIS!

18. Information Age
What do you
want students
to DO with all
that
information?
How can we
get them to
THINK?
EQ: How can we
embrace new
standards
through Inquiry?

19. What is INQUIRY…?What is INQUIRY…?

20. Get Thinking!!
Paige Jaeger and Mary Ratzer
Connect:
Life
World
?’s
Talk
Think
Use
Interact
Synthesize
ConcludeWriteShare

21. Rigor: Inquiry Based Learning Adventures:
PACKETS

22. What would you
like students to do
with all those
facts?
Research is an
“Anchor Standard”
Ya know?
I’d love to help you
meet writing
standards
6,7,8,9 & 10!
I’d love to help you
meet writing
standards
6,7,8,9 & 10!
Can I build you a
“text set” for your
SS or Science
topic?

23. Well, you
didn’t ask me
to do anything
but find them.
EQ: Why is your musician the best?
EQ: How did your musician impact the music world?
EQ: What set(s) your musician apart from all others?

24. # 2
Research without
regurgitation…
Research without
regurgitation…
FACT-FETCHINGFACT-FETCHINGTransform, rather
than mere “transfer”
INFORMATION
Transform, rather
than mere “transfer”
INFORMATION

25. A good research ?
Will require SYNTHESIS
Pronoun.?
How? What if…?
Why?
Should…?

26. Let’s look at Questioning
Questioning is
a life skill.
Questioning is
a life skill.

27. What questions would you
have, if you were confronted
with these real world
scenarios?

28. https://todaysmeet.com/BURUNDI
You have been offered a job in
BURUNDI

29. http://www.todaysmeet.com/hipreplacement
You need a hip replacement,
but don’t have insurance….

30. http://www.padlet.com/pjaeger/MD
It is the 1850’s: Will you go West,
young man?

31. # 3
Craft a compelling
Research Question:
(aka “Compelling Question”)
Craft a compelling
Research Question:
(aka “Compelling Question”)
Essential
Questions:
Drive discovery
and
deep learning

32. Create a Conquorer’s Guide to
the Mongol Territory
https://todaysmeet.com/KHAN

33. 3 Dimensional Reading

34. CRAFTING an EQ
AKA…
0Essential Question
0Umbrella Question
0Compelling Question
0Research Question
0Problem Question
Can we give
students a reason
to read or a
purpose to look
critically?
Is there a problem that
should be solved?
How can I get students
to deeply understand
the “content”?

35. Let us think…
Our “research” is
actually a large EBC
EQ: Why was Pluto
“demoted”?
Through INQUIRY:
Students, using the
vocabulary of the
discipline, will “uncover
and discover” the
content.

36. How can dystopian literature
serve as a catalyst for change?

37. How can grassroots “civic action”
be a first step towards major
change?
Whyis GENOCIDE still
occuring in the world?
Whyis GENOCIDE still
occuring in the world?
Whyis slavery still
existing, covertly, in
America?
Whyis slavery still
existing, covertly, in
America?

38. # 4
Imbed CHOICE
(somewhere…)
(anywhere…)
(please…)
Imbed CHOICE
(somewhere…)
(anywhere…)
(please…)
CHOICE
incubates ownership
CHOICE
incubates ownership

39. Loc.gov
Captivate &
Motivate with
real world
problem
solving
Captivate with
RelevanceWhere in the world is “suffrage” still occurring?
How would our Bill of Rights fit in those
counties?

40. Early American Movers and Shakers
0 If your mover or
shaker were alive
today, what would
their“vanity plate”
read?
0 Create their resume
Be prepared to
interview for their job.
Susan B. Anthony
Herman Melville
Sojourner Truth
William Lloyd Garrison
Vanderbilt

41. ELA EQ:
How do novels portray
real-world issues?
Put your author on trial.
•Pick an issue in your book.
•Research.
•Create an EBC as to whether
your
author correctly portrayed
the issue.
Completely? Incomplete?

42. # 5
Teachers: Get your
students OUTSIDE
the text!
Teachers: Get your
students OUTSIDE
the text!

43. A Few Basics:

44. Text Dependent Questions InquiryCONCRETE
QUESTIONS
Half-way up
Bloom’s: This
TDQ calls for
textual
evidence
Inquiry

45. EQ: How are we
influenced by
our culture?
What else do you
want to know
about this topic?

46. # 6
Teachers: Don’t
provide BOTH
sides…
Teachers: Don’t
provide BOTH
sides…

47. You decide:
Was President
Jackson a villain
or a hero?
Prepare for an evidence-based
discussion and debate.

48. EQ: What happens
when two cultures
collide?
EQ: How do natural
resources, geography,
and topography often
define a culture?

49. I need you.
You need me.
EQ: Why do we need each
other?

50. EQ: HOW CAN WE FEED THE WORLD IN 2050?
RESOURCES & SEED TEXTS

51. Old
NEW
Oh, come on…You’re
not going to get rid of
me. Are you?
Lenses:
Economic
Civics (people)
Legislative
Geographic
Cultural

52. Lastly,
Don’t cheat the back
end: Knowledge
presentation &
reflection
Don’t cheat the back
end: Knowledge
presentation &
reflection

53. What’s the Standard?
What’s the content?
What’s the Standard?
What’s the content?
What’s the
ENGAGING
EQ?
What’s the
ENGAGING
EQ?
What’s the
vocabulary of the
discipline?
What’s the
vocabulary of the
discipline?
What can the
knowledge
product be?
What can the
knowledge
product be?
Tech!
Tech! HOW
WILL WE
ASSESS?
HOW
WILL WE
ASSESS?

54. IMPERATIVES FOR REPACKAGING

55. Paige Jaeger, Educational Consultant
Instructional Focus Editor, School Library Connection
PaigeJaeger@gmail.com
It has been my pleasure to meet and exchange ideas with you! Discount code =
Q41520

56. Resources and Credits:
(Some sources credited on slides, and other listed below)
0 Game Show music: www.unix.eng.ua.edu/../Entrance Music (Game Show Music).mp3
0 CoreStandards.org
0 http://www.dbadesigns.com/posts-occasional-rants/kids-use-social-media/
0 http://www.pewinternet.org/files/old-media/Files/Reports/2013/PIP_TeensandTechnology2013.pdf
0 Palfrey, John G., and Urs Gasser. Born digital: understanding the first generation of digital natives. New York: Basic Books,
2008. Print.
0 Small, Gary W., and Gigi Vorgan. iBrain: surviving the technological alteration of the modern mind. New York: Collins Living,
2008. Print. Copy & Paste | Parenthetical
0 Twenge, Jean M.. Generation me: why today's young Americans are more confident, assertive, entitled--and more miserable
than ever before. New York: Free Press, 2006. Print. Copy & Paste | Parenthetical
0 Photos by: Sara Kelly Johns, (Librarians) Philio Jaeger (Millennials), Susan Kowalski (Bookmobile); Rebecca Burkette,
( Students in Library #58) ; Bridgit Crossman (students slide 20); Overdrive (slide 30); Scholastic Screen shots used with
permission;