I definitely see the use of essential questions. In my mind, they fit right into the Marzano's strategies as "questions, cues, and advance organizers." The questions are not designed for rote memorization, but for information synthesis. Asking them requires the student to organize all the facts they've received, think about them, and form their own opinion. Teaching students how to learn, and how to form their own opinions and articulate them well, definitely needs to be part of any given learning curriculum.
I see the use of essential questions in the learning tasks by Mitra. He is asking engaging questions and he is getting students interest in learning something new. Mitra showed that kids will learn if they want to learn something. He made learning the computers interesting to them so they learned how.
Sugara Mitra at some point gave essential questions to the children. In villages where they had never seen a computer, he gave the children time to explore to familiarize themselves with the computer . Then he left them with an essential question where the students could use the computer to explore and learn and themselves make more questions. In the case of the students that were in Italy, he kept giving them essential questions where their understanding of basic science principles were introduced until the students could build up knowledge to understand advance principles.
His research questions on how can we get students in remote areas to get excited about education. This brought the idea of students actively learning on their own. When he stated that even after the class students continued to search the internet for more information was evidence of essential question taking place.
He would also just simply give them a topic or task to the class and let the students take control of their learning. This was also shown in the first example when he simply put a computer in a wall to see who students would react. Their curiosity of the computer was the stimulating thought that provoked inquiry.
Essential questioning is how you pose a question to students. It's how you ask it that stimulates learning by engaging. From the video the students were learning by becoming engaged which is a hands on approach. I think that when students are engaged they learn, "students will learn what they want to learn", but first they must be interested.
I definitely see the use of essential questions. In my mind, they fit right into the Marzano's strategies as "questions, cues, and advance organizers." The questions are not designed for rote memorization, but for information synthesis. Asking them requires the student to organize all the facts they've received, think about them, and form their own opinion. Teaching students how to learn, and how to form their own opinions and articulate them well, definitely needs to be part of any given learning curriculum.
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ReplyDeleteI see the use of essential questions in the learning tasks by Mitra. He is asking engaging questions and he is getting students interest in learning something new. Mitra showed that kids will learn if they want to learn something. He made learning the computers interesting to them so they learned how.
ReplyDeleteSugara Mitra at some point gave essential questions to the children. In villages where they had never seen a computer, he gave the children time to explore to familiarize themselves with the computer . Then he left them with an essential question where the students could use the computer to explore and learn and themselves make more questions. In the case of the students that were in Italy, he kept giving them essential questions where their understanding of basic science principles were introduced until the students could build up knowledge to understand advance principles.
ReplyDeleteI think he asked essential questions by his use of technology to bring about thought from the students.
ReplyDeleteHis research questions on how can we get students in remote areas to get excited about education. This brought the idea of students actively learning on their own. When he stated that even after the class students continued to search the internet for more information was evidence of essential question taking place.
ReplyDeleteHe would also just simply give them a topic or task to the class and let the students take control of their learning. This was also shown in the first example when he simply put a computer in a wall to see who students would react. Their curiosity of the computer was the stimulating thought that provoked inquiry.
Essential questioning is how you pose a question to students. It's how you ask it that stimulates learning by engaging. From the video the students were learning by becoming engaged which is a hands on approach. I think that when students are engaged they learn, "students will learn what they want to learn", but first they must be interested.
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