brianhousand.com If Your Students Can Google the Answer, You May Be Asking the Wrong Question Thanks to ubiquitous digital information devices, finding the answer to most questions is only an Internet search away. Now more than ever, we must teach our students to be critical consumers of the information that they encounter, and we must reinvest ourselves in posing questions that involve application and synthesis.

1. If your students can
the answer
you may be asking the
WRONG questions.
Brian Housand, Ph.D.
brianhousand.com
bit.ly/
Cag2014

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

11. You may be asking the WRONG questions!

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14. RECALL
≠
UNDERSTANDING

15. The illiterate of
the 21st Century
will not be those
who cannot read
or write,
but those who cannot
LEARN, UNLEARN
AND RELEARN.
(Toffler, 1970)

24. DID

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

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

28. Fiction f rom
Truth using
Evidence

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

31. TR
IAN
GU
LA
TIO
N

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

34. BLUFF THE
INTERNET
SEARCHER

35. agoogleaday.com

36. google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation

37. AGGREGATOR

39. LiveBinders

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

42. bit.ly/middleschooldrawntolife

43. WHAT ABOUT MATH?

45. Google Trends

46. 101qs.com

49. wonderopolis.com

50. geoguessr.com

51. geosettr.com

52. writingprompts.tumblr.com

53. 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

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

55. 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
over long periods of time,
to be STIMULATED
TO FIND THINGS OUT ON THEIR OWN.
- Gardner

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

58. What do
you think?

59. Why do you
think that?

60. How do you
know this?

61. Can you tell
me more?

62. What
questions do
you still
have?

63. If your students can
the answer
you may be asking the
WRONG questions.
Brian Housand, Ph.D.
brianhousand.com
bit.ly/
Cag2014