So many “research reports” are really just “regurgitation re-writes.” Here’s one way to take a research report to a much more interesting level.
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❓ Ask Better Questions
I received surprisingly little training on how to ask questions, considering how many darn questions I asked!
🪄 Change, Then Explain!
My favorite way to reach "synthesize" - ask students to make a change and then explain the effects of that change.
🤭 Find The Controversy
Every topic has some juicy controversy. Leverage it! Look for ambiguity, disagreements, dilemmas, and discrepancies in any topic.
🐛 Fuzzy Problems
Fuzzy problems are ambiguous. They are missing data. They have lots of right answers, but (more importantly) they also have wrong answers.
🔃 Think Big! But Also Small.
Get your students' thinking moving from specific to the abstract and then back again.
🚫 Anti-Techniques
These are ideas I used to believe that now I think aren't actually so great. Oops!
🎥 Embed A Classic
Take out a boring sample and embed great art, music, film, tv shows, and other classics into your lessons.
💥 Get Ridiculous
Avoid boring examples and go for the outliers! Everything's more interesting when you're working with unexpected examples.
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Curiosity Skill: Encouraging Students to Ask Other Students
If you want to make a massive change in the culture of your classroom, move from teachers asking students all of the questions to students asking each other questions!
A Tessellation Art (and Math) Project
Let’s create an MC Escher-style tessellation art (and math) project with nothing more than an index card, a marker, and paper.
Math Game: Heaps
Heaps is a lovely math-y strategy game that requires no more than paper and pencil to play.
Writing in Pi-lish
Here’s the perfect constraint for March! Writing with the digits of Pi.