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Questioning Smarts: skills and processes for deepening understanding

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OTF Teacher Librarian Camp‘09

Carol [email protected]

Why is questioning Important? How do we build curiosity and wonder? How do we teach students to question

effectively? How does questioning build

understanding? How does questioning support 21st

Century Learning


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Questioning is Cross CurricularQuestioning is Cross Curricular reading writing thinking communicating research evaluating and goal setting

Questioning is key to understandingQuestioning is key to understanding

What an important task we have ….to create learning that compels our students past twilight, imbued with a feeling of investigating something enormous!

Debbie Abilock Knowledge Quest 2004



Why must I find answers to already answered questions when I have questions that have not yet been answered?

Teacher Presenter Scientist Doctor Auto mechanic Lawyer Accountant Nurse Reporter Etc.

What kinds of questions do they ask? Information/factual Research/probing Provocative/irreverent Challenging Reflective Motivational/inventive Divergent Etc.


Establish a Community of Learners Teach observation skills Invite, value and celebrate questions Work on awareness Model effective questioning Teach questioning strategies Create a desire to know


20 Questions Jeopardy Trivia Are you Smarter than a

Fifth Grader?


You never really know what’s going to happen when you play.

Play is its own reward, its own reason for being.

Steps in play Anticipation Surprise Pleasure Understanding Strength Poise

Scott Eberle Historian of Play


A student volunteers to be on the hot seat.

Peers question the student who is in role as a character.

Students continue questioning for about 5 minutes to clarify the personality, opinions, attitudes, history of the character in role.

Group then plans a freeze frame to dramatize a moment in time for some period in the character's life.


Motivate and challenge with the unknown or the perplexing artifacts both real and virtual historical photos, cartoons, posters quotations film clips discrepant events

Puzzle them First: Motivating Adolescent Readers with Question-Finding By A. V. Ciardiello



1. What is happening in this picture?

2. What might have happened just

before this picture?

3. Whom do you see in the picture?

4. Who is not here who may be involved? Why?

5. What visual techniques have been used? (camera angle, shadows,etc)

6. How do the visual techniques help you understand the information or tell the message?

7. What does this picture remind you of?

8. How does this picture make you feel?

Toronto Star Ask Why Campaign

Students develop three levels of questions.

On the line Between the line Beyond the line


Cellphone microscope allows remote lab tests For ‘A’ Students in Some Brooklyn Schools, a

Cellphone and 130 Free Minutes Experts Revive Debate Over Cellphones and

Cancer Drivers and Legislators Dismiss Cellphone

Risks The I-Hate-My-Cellphone Film Festival by

David Pogue


Isn’t thinking enough? Unfortunately much

thinking is done in an unquestioning manner.

Isn’t thinking and questioning part and parcel of the same whole?

Questioning infuses the thinking with purpose.


White Hat - facts and details Yellow Hat – optimistic, positive and

logical Red Hat – intuitive, emotions and

feelings Green Hat – new ideas and

imagination Black Hat – caution and judgment Blue Hat – metacognition, reflection,

big ideas

Edward de Bono 1985


White hat –How much does it cost to purchase software to catch em?

Yellow Hat –How can plagiarism be turned into a positive learning experience?

Red Hat -Why are kids so irresponsible?

Blue Hat - Why do kids plagiarize?

Black Hat- Who is to blame?

Green Hat -How are web2.0 environments changing our understanding of copyright?


The best way to ensure that students’ work is original thinking is to enable them to develop their own focus with good inquiry questions.


Read What You Need Talk to the Text Think SMART as you read...

Connect Question Infer Reflect Picture Summarize Make comparisons


What do you think you know?

What do you want to find out?

Where can you get more information?

What keywords will help you with searches?

Carol Koechlin 2009

No other tool will help the Internet reader as much as the right question, asked at the right time and in the right way. Intelligent readers of the Internet begin by asking questions even before they log on, and they continue to ask questions during their search. By asking questions repeatedly and deliberately, students become thoughtful readers, developing "habits of mind" that they can then generalize to other situations or tasks (Costa & Kallick, 2000). http://www.i-learnt.com/Thinking_Habits_Mind.html


Source 1 Source 2

Who

What

When

Where

Why

How

Which


Accuracy

Authority

Bias

Currency

Purpose

Context

Origin

Content

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Research seems to be far more difficult to conduct in the digital age than it did in previous times.

The Information School, University of Washington February 2009

By Alison J. Head, Ph.D. And Michael B. Eisenberg, Ph.D.



Ban those Bird UnitsBan those Bird Units and Beyond Bird UnitsBeyond Bird Units Loertscher Koechlin and Zwaan


Advertising is legalized lying.

H.G.Wells

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.

Marshall McCluhan

Essential Question:

How does advertising impact on our society?



What is it all about? Think about media type, genre, meaning, ideologies,

values, narrative, and commodity

Who is the target? Think about culture, gender, race, age, skills, use,

pleasure, choices, needs

How was it created? Think about technology, economics,

ownership/control, production, institutions, distributions, ethics, and legality

is did can would will might

Who

What

When

Where

How

Why

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Questioning elevates the quality of research projects and student understanding.

Research without questions invites “cut and paste”.

Questioning invites original thought.



If you are looking for just the facts build simple questions.

Where do we see advertising? What kinds of advertising are there? Who creates advertising? What strategies and techniques do

advertisers use? What does advertising cost? Who pays?


If you want to uncover understanding build powerful research questions.

How does money spent on advertising relate to sales?

Which advertising strategies are most effective with teens?

How has advertising changed over time? What is the relationship between children’s

advertising and purchasing trends? How does advertising affect our definition of needs

and wants?


Statements of purpose are also good research guides

Study the role advertising plays in our economy. Examine and analyze advertising on billboards for

types of product and messages. Compare advertising for men and women Compare advertising in different magazines. Investigate if there is a correlation between

advertising and obesity.

What are you really curious about? Why do you want to explore this topic? What do you know already? What do you need/want to find out? How will you make sense of the data you discover? Who will your audience be? What do you want your audience to understand

about your research? How will you share your new learning?



Create a desire to know Build background knowledge Make connections Provide time to experiment with questions Conference with students Create contracts Assess the effectiveness of the questions

Reflections Learning logs Preparing for tests Interviews and surveys Conferencing with peers Self assessment Goal setting


Pathfinders Guided Tours Scavenger Hunts Virtual Tours Interactive Video

Conferencing On-Line Projects Blogs Wikis Web Quests



Capture the hype of social networking and at the same time ensure that when students are working in the Web 2.0 environment that they are engaged in high THINK activities as they read write. The potential of this collaborative space for knowledge building is just being explored by educators.

Read Think WriteRead Think Write

Carol Koechlin 2009

Questions are the answer to building knowledge and understanding.

Learners QUESTION in the library!

Learners THINK in the library!

THANK YOUTHANK YOU

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