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Questions Are Desire Paths of Curiosity
Saved by Pam G C Pinheiro and
Good questions elicit interesting and alternative views and suggestthe need to focus on the reasoning we use in arriving at and defending ananswer, not just whether our answer is “right” or “wrong.” Good questionsspark meaningful connections with what we bring to the classroom from priorclasses and our own life experience. They can and do recur wit
... See moreWe do know that the ability to question, whether verbally or through other means, is one of the things that separates us from lower primates. Paul Harris, an education professor8 at Harvard University who has studied questioning in children, observes, “Unlike other primates, we humans are designed so that the young look to the old for cultural info
... See moreAsking a question doesn’t just make information appear. It pushes you to seek out any information that might help you get closer (asymptotically, never really getting there, because that’s when the fun ends) to an answer.