1. If your students can
the answer
you may be asking the
WRONG questions.
Brian Housand, Ph.D.
brianhousand.com bit.ly/
rrisd2014

2. brianhousand.com

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

11. You may be asking the WRONG questions!

13. 42

21. DID

22. RECALL
≠UNDERSTANDING

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

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

27. Fiction f rom
Truth using
Evidence

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

30. TRIANGULATION

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

33. B L U F F T H E
I N T E R N E T
S E A R C H E R

34. agoogleaday.com

35. google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation

36. AGGREGATOR

38. LiveBinders

40. TRY THIS!
GENERIC SENTENCE FRAMES
“Who are…”
“When did…”
“Why does…”
“What will happen if…”

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

46. bit.ly/middleschooldrawntolife

47. WHAT ABOUT MATH?

48. Google Trends

50. 101qs.com

53. books.google.com

54. wonderopolis.com

55. geoguessr.com

56. geosettr.com

57. writingprompts.tumblr.com

58. 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

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

60. ANSWERS ARE
EASY.
It’s asking the
right questions
which is hard.- T H E D O C T O R

61. Refine
Questions

62. Can the question be answered by
making observations,
collecting data,
making measurements,
and/or changing variables?

63. Can the question be
narrowed
and focused
enough to look at
a SINGLE variable?

64. Do we have
access to the
NECESSARY
materials to help
us answer the
question?

65. 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. What do
you think?

68. Why do you
think that?

69. How do you
know this?

70. Can you tell
me more?

71. What
questions do
you still
have?

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