If your students can easily find the answers by googling, you may be asking the wrong type of questions. The document discusses asking questions that require students to think more deeply and critically evaluate information, rather than just recall facts. Real-world, engaging questions that spark interest and problem solving are emphasized over those with single correct answers that can be easily looked up.

1. If your students can
the answer
you may be asking the
WRONG questions.
Brian Housand, Ph.D.
brianhousand.com
bit.ly/
gagc2014

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3. 2014
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10. If your students can GOOGLE the answer...

11. You may be asking the WRONG questions!

12. RECALL
≠
UNDERSTANDING

13. DID

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

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

17. Fiction f rom
Truth using
Evidence

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

20. TR
IAN
GU
LA
TIO
N

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

23. BLUFF THE
INTERNET
SEARCHER

24. agoogleaday.com

25. google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation

26. AGGREGATOR

28. LiveBinders

30. WHO
WHAT WHEN
IS
DID
WHERE WHY
WILL MIGHT
HOW
SHOULD
COULD
WOULD
CAN

31. bit.ly/middleschooldrawntolife

32. WHAT ABOUT MATH?

34. Google Trends

35. 101qs.com

38. wonderopolis.com

39. geoguessr.com

40. geosettr.com

41. writingprompts.tumblr.com

42. 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

43. Real World Problems
Academic Rigor
Technology Integration
www.ecugifted.com

44. 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
over long periods of time,
to be STIMULATED
TO FIND THINGS OUT ON THEIR OWN.
- Gardner

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

47. What do
you think?

48. Why do you
think that?

49. How do you
know this?

50. Can you tell
me more?

51. What
questions do
you still
have?

52. If your students can
the answer
you may be asking the
WRONG questions.
Brian Housand, Ph.D.
brianhousand.com
bit.ly/
Cag2014