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1. If your students can
the answer
you may be asking the
WRONG questions.
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2. BRIANHOUSAND.COM

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

11. You may be asking the WRONG questions!

12. RECALL ≠
UNDERSTANDING

14. http://www.bbcamerica.com/doctor-who/wp-content/blogs.dir/18/files/2011/10/doctorwho_s05_e00_21_tardis__x-large.jpg

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

16. Y2K

21. 32 1
Words
Questions
Metaphor

23. 32 1
Words
Questions
Metaphor

25. DID

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

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

29. Fiction f rom
Truth using
Evidence

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

32. News Feed

33. TRIANGULATION

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

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

39. BLUFF THE
INTERNET
SEARCHER

40. agoogleaday.com

41. google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation

43. INTERNET
RESEARCH

44. AGGREGATOR

46. LiveBinders

53. radioshackcatalogs.com

54. books.google.com

55. WHAT ABOUT MATH?

56. 101qs.com

58. Google Trends

61. wonderopolis.com

62. geoguessr.com

63. geosettr.com

64. writingprompts.tumblr.com

65. 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

66. 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

67. TEDed

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