inQuiring minds #008
We’re back with InQuiring Minds, keeping you up-to-date on the latest articles, posts, and online discussions that have caught our eye. Take a look at the links below, and keep the conversation going...
View ArticleInQuiring Minds: The Importance of Questions
The Right Question Institute has been busy this summer–last week, we held our second annual East Coast Seminar, and next week we’ll head to Chicago for a one-day event. We have enjoyed meeting so many...
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InQuiring Minds: Reaching Deeper Learning Through Questions
This issue of inQuiring Minds focuses on problem-based learning and deeper learning as a result of asking questions. The articles below underscore how individual- and group-led questioning relates to...
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Inquiring Minds: Curiosity as a Catalyst to Discovery
written and compiled by Jane Santa Cruz This issue of InQuiring Minds reaches back to explore that initial feeling of curiosity that can then spark all learning, creativity, and innovation. We should...
View Article@RightQuestion Digest: Connections with Project-Based Learning, Information...
Improving Student Inquiry In his blog post, Improving Student Inquiry with the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) and PBL, Drew Perkins (@dperkinsed) discusses the value of implementing the QFT in a...
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How to Deepen Student Learning Using PBL & the QFT
By Jim Bentley When I started teaching, my primary concerns were fairly straightforward: engage students personally, plan clear instruction, and manage behavior effectively. I was the leader of...
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Three and Four Year Old Students Learning to Ask Their Own Questions
By: Lisa Bernadino, Kristen Harvey, Andrea Serino, Kristen Sasso, Donna Rosso, & Margaret Adams “In early childhood classrooms, science based lessons are something that are often done, but not as...
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My Learning Philosophy
By Nicole Cruz, RDH, BSDH It’s vital that I structure my classroom as a learning environment, and not just a teaching environment. The difference is simple: in a learning environment, the focus is on...
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Cultivating Curiosity by Deliberately Teaching Students How to Ask Questions...
In his piece for Education Week, Andrew Minigan, RQI Education Project and Research Coordinator, writes, “Question formulation is fundamental to cognitive development and how we learn from others, and...
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Biography and Bioethics: 9th Graders Ask Questions about the Immortal Life of...
It all began with a question. For writer and journalist Rebecca Skloot, it was a question she asked as a high school student in a college biology lecture that launched her into a decades long research...
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