How might technology help us ask better questions? [CEP812 Fall 2018] by Douglas Frankish https://padlet.com/frankis2/56ljm1mbaf2e How do you (or might you) use technology yourself and/or with your students to ask better, more "beautiful" questions? en-us 2018-10-31 19:18:51 UTC 2026-01-25 17:33:02 UTC hello@padlet.com Technology....better questions? https://padlet.com/frankis2/56ljm1mbaf2e/wish/300779688 With today's "Google", the questions we ask usually get answers. I will say that we should be asking better and tougher questions now because the answers are more accessible and if they are not, it's how we are phrasing them. As educators, we should be embracing questions in the classroom and using technology as an aid to help us find these answers and push further thinking, to ask more questions. 

]]> 2018-11-06 00:08:14 UTC https://padlet.com/frankis2/56ljm1mbaf2e/wish/300779688 Technology and Questions https://padlet.com/frankis2/56ljm1mbaf2e/wish/302857233 Technology can most definitely help us answer better questions! As stated by one of my peers, information is much more accessible than ever before. The difficulty with that is assessing whether or not the information comes from a viable source or having to teach others how to discover information from proper resources in an efficient manner (which I think is often lacking with older students who detest the thought of researching with databases. I'm sure schools waste a lot of money paying for these resources that are not accessed as often as they should)]]> 2018-11-10 13:17:50 UTC https://padlet.com/frankis2/56ljm1mbaf2e/wish/302857233 Using what we know to reveal what we don't know https://padlet.com/frankis2/56ljm1mbaf2e/wish/302898075 Berger said, "One of the primary drivers of questioning is an awareness of what we don't know." I think technology can help us ask better questions because the Internet allows us to immediately access the world's current understanding of a chosen subject. Once we see all that is known, we can pinpoint the deep dark caves of what is unknown about that subject and begin to form questions. Basically, thanks to this information age, when we question we can build upon others' knowledge instead of reinventing the wheel. ]]> 2018-11-10 18:56:28 UTC https://padlet.com/frankis2/56ljm1mbaf2e/wish/302898075 Questioning technology... https://padlet.com/frankis2/56ljm1mbaf2e/wish/302909880 In Berger's book "A More Beautiful Question" he introduces a sequence of questioning; Why, What if and How? It is a basic progression of the problem solving process. During the "Why" stage of the sequence you state a question about something already in place. Once your question is formed, you must learn more about that to progress into the "What if" stage. The knowledge that technology provides us in an instant, can be beneficial to inquisitors to ask better questions or gain the knowledge necessary for the progression to the "What if" or generating ideas stage.]]> 2018-11-10 20:50:54 UTC https://padlet.com/frankis2/56ljm1mbaf2e/wish/302909880 Technology to develop questions https://padlet.com/frankis2/56ljm1mbaf2e/wish/302943502 Technology provides us with knowledge to different questions. However, technology can help us ask better questions. Through technology, we are provided with resources and knowledge where we can utilize to ask for further thinking. We can ask questions "that begin to shift the way we perceive or think about something" (Berger, p. 8). Through technology and resources, I think technology can help us ask questions to gain a deeper understanding and create questions that can help us think more critically. ]]> 2018-11-11 06:32:25 UTC https://padlet.com/frankis2/56ljm1mbaf2e/wish/302943502 TECH and INQUIRY ~ Musings from Jonathan Keck https://padlet.com/frankis2/56ljm1mbaf2e/wish/303061307 In many ways, the education system as it exists does a disservice to student learning. If rote memorization is the norm, not only are students not learning how to ask better questions, but even the best students with amazing memories and great GPA are unprepared for the future. Watson and his A.I. friends are going to replace most jobs. Certainly any work that requires either manual labor or rote knowledge is rife for the chopping block. So, in a certain sense, technology does NOT help ask better questions. Rather, it is a tool that CAN allow us to ask better questions, but only if our minds are prompted and trained toward that inquisitive end. If not so inclined, this technology—though helpful and ubiquitous—will be no help at all. Teachers and the education system need to change, and fast! This tech will either be a great boon to the inquisitive or the intellectual guillotine to the passive-minded spoon-fed student. 

Now, for the inquisitive student, all human knowledge is a mere few keystrokes away. This is powerful and overwhelming—a fire hose of knowledge. The first and most important question prompted by this volume of knowledge is distinguishing what is important and what is background noise. Layers of questions emerge from this train of thought, but what’s important is that deep questioning that is afforded to the inquisitive by this technology. 
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