How might technology help us ask better questions? [CEP812 Spring 2018] by Douglas Frankish https://padlet.com/frankis2/rfdyi57v68y7 How do you (or might you) use technology yourself and/or with your students to ask better, more "beautiful" questions? en-us 2018-03-17 20:56:57 UTC 2018-03-25 17:58:03 UTC hello@padlet.com Morgan Counseller https://padlet.com/frankis2/rfdyi57v68y7/wish/243272984 Technology can help students ask more beautiful questions. When my students are doing research projects, I always tell them to research something that "Siri couldn't answer right away". This makes them think of deeper level questions that do not have a definitive answer and require thought and extensive research. ]]> 2018-03-18 23:16:38 UTC https://padlet.com/frankis2/rfdyi57v68y7/wish/243272984 Shannon Lutz https://padlet.com/frankis2/rfdyi57v68y7/wish/243940432 Effective inquiry allows students to explore, access, probe, and figure out what do with the information that they can acquire through technology (Berger, 2014). Technology can slowly train us how to ask better questions. As educators, we should teach students how to use this creative problem-solving process and allow for questioning in the classroom. 

Reference: Berger, W. (2014). A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas. Bloomsbury Publishin Plc.

 

]]> 2018-03-20 11:44:38 UTC https://padlet.com/frankis2/rfdyi57v68y7/wish/243940432 Focus Point - Myrta Ventura https://padlet.com/frankis2/rfdyi57v68y7/wish/245008040 In Berger's book A More Beautiful Question, he focused on an anecdote about how the Right Question Institute (RQI) used a Question Focus to start the questioning process. I think that technology can produce the content that serves as a catalyst for questions and ,then also, kindles the curiosity fire to keep the questions coming. Places like YouTube and Twitter allow you to have an experience similar to a "stream of consiousness" about curiosity and things you don't know about, so while you are exploring content you are coming up with even more questions. Another good example, are forums for discussion where people engage in asking questions. The technology can bosupport question asking, as well, as the usual answering of questions.]]> 2018-03-22 14:16:55 UTC https://padlet.com/frankis2/rfdyi57v68y7/wish/245008040 Alyssa Rubrich https://padlet.com/frankis2/rfdyi57v68y7/wish/245693099 As children we have a natural curiosity about the world around us. Berger talks about how we need to maintain that inquisitiveness through adulthood. We come across problems every day and we often complain about them but we rarely ask ourselves what we could to do fix the problem or if there is something we could create to solve this problem. Technology can aid us in solving these problems; we just need to find the right questions to ask.  We need to ask ourselves a variety of questions: why isn’t this working, what method might work better, how can we change/adapt what already exists? From there we can use Google to find background knowledge about the topic. The answers to those inquiries could spark more and more questions. These questions help us to innovate, think differently, and create something new. Eventually we are able to use these answers and new ways of thinking to help solve our original problem.
 
 
Reference:
 
Berger, W. (2014). A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
]]> 2018-03-24 04:23:49 UTC https://padlet.com/frankis2/rfdyi57v68y7/wish/245693099 David Picking https://padlet.com/frankis2/rfdyi57v68y7/wish/245754408 I’m not sold yet, but I’m open to the possibility, that technology can help us ask better questions. It appears that we have to train, perhaps retrain, ourselves with an innovative mindset. As Warren Berger states, “innovation means trying to find and formulate new questions that can, over time, be answered” (2014, p. 20).  It feels to me initially, that it starts with us learning the skillset necessary to ask better questions.

Reference: 

Berger, W. (2014). A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.


]]> 2018-03-24 18:16:28 UTC https://padlet.com/frankis2/rfdyi57v68y7/wish/245754408 Kaleena Carter https://padlet.com/frankis2/rfdyi57v68y7/wish/245820672 I definitely think that technology may help us ask better questions. I think back to the old platform of Yahoo answers and how you could 'up-vote' a question or answer depending on the context, and you get points for your account (I can't remember how they were used).  This allowed you to answer more and more questions as you became the expert. While Yahoo answers and platforms like Quora are question -answer focused  platforms, they allow for anonymity which can eliminate hesitation when it comes to admitting your ignorance to a certain topic. As insisted by Irene Au in Berger's book, "questioning is actually easier online - because anonymity helps." (2014, p. 68). Ironically, when I read this, I immediately thought of this very platform that we are using to answer this question :padlet. You can chose to be anonymous and post, which the anonymity alone may encourage more truthful and hopefully better questioning. That being said, these are still human driven platforms that can replace a face to face questioning that I do beleive is still very important

Source: 
Berger, W. (2014) A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 

]]> 2018-03-25 12:57:24 UTC https://padlet.com/frankis2/rfdyi57v68y7/wish/245820672 Kristine Washburn kwashburn6 https://padlet.com/frankis2/rfdyi57v68y7/wish/245829294 "Can technology help us ask better questions? For the most part, it is better suited to responding to questions-- not so good at asking them." (Berger 26). 

Technology can give us more content to build our questions off of, but I'm not set on it solely helping us ask better questions. It can help us learn to word our questions better, especially when trying to ask an Alexia or search engine but I believe truly better questions come from humans. Support and working through content and questions with peers, guidance, and just asking more questions will help lead to better questions.

 

Berger, W. (2014). A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

]]> 2018-03-25 14:16:17 UTC https://padlet.com/frankis2/rfdyi57v68y7/wish/245829294 Chris Cavalieri https://padlet.com/frankis2/rfdyi57v68y7/wish/245855296 In his book, Warren Berger uses a quote from former Xerox scientist John Seely Brown, who said, "I have to reframe how I even think about using all of this technology. I find myself asking all kinds of fundamental questions...I eventually realize that the lenses I'm looking through to see the world around me are wrong--and that I have to construct a whole new frame of reference" (2014, p. 25). I also find myself frequently asking fundamental questions in regards to how I can use technology to ask better questions. I teach "computers" to all the K-5 students at a public elementary school in Michigan. One way that I can use technology to help my students ask better questions is through writing. I have my students utilize various Google Apps to write essays and ask questions during the process. As an elementary teacher, I continue to work on the process of asking better, more "beautiful" questions.

Reference:

Berger, W. (2014). A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

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