How to add a couple of Analyze-level tasks to this Synthesize activity.
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🔃 Think Big! But Also Small.
Get your students' thinking moving from specific to the abstract and then back again.
🪄 Change, Then Explain!
My favorite way to reach "synthesize" - ask students to make a change and then explain the effects of that change.
🎥 Embed A Classic
Take out a boring sample and embed great art, music, film, tv shows, and other classics into your lessons.
🤭 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.
🚫 Anti-Techniques
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❓ Ask Better Questions
I received surprisingly little training on how to ask questions, considering how many darn questions I asked!
💥 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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