Wondering to Learn

Wondering to Learn
Educating with questions for tomorrow’s world
Wondering to Learn
Questions worth wondering
Wondering questions
Wonder-full questions
Wonderful questions
Big Questions
A big question
Why you
have so
much cargo?
Why you
have so
much cargo?
Why you
have so
much cargo?
Why you
have so
much cargo?
Why you
have so
much cargo?
Why you
have so
much cargo?
What big questions are like
What big questions do
Where big questions come from
Where big questions go
What about answers?
What big questions wonder at
What big
questions are
like
What is
virtue?
Where did the
universe come
from and where
is it going?
What are the
forces that lead
to war and how
can we manage
them better?
What
makes
you say
that?
I used to
think...Now
I think...
Connect
Extend
Challenge
1. What makes a decision
necessary?
2. What are my options?
3. What are the likely
consequences?
4. How important are they?
5. Which option is best in light
of the consequence and
importance?
Open
rather than closed
Insight Action Ethics
Opportunity
Open
rather than closed
Insight Action Ethics
Opportunity
What is
virtue?
Open
rather than closed
Insight Action Ethics
Opportunity
What are the
forces that lead
to war and how
can we manage
them better?
Open
rather than closed
Insight Action Ethics
Opportunity
Where did the
universe come
from and where
is it going?
Open
Insight Action
Ethics
Opportunity
What big
questions do
Energize
and
organize
learning
Throughlines
Essential questions
Fertile questions
Throughlines
How do
people
change the
land?
How do we find
out the truth
about things that
happened long
ago or far away?
How does the
land change
human
culture?
How do we see
through bias in
sources?
Essential questions
Why does it
matter?
From whose
viewpoint are we
seeing or
reading or
hearing?
How can
plants ‘know’
which way to
grow, since
they have no
senses?
Fertile questions
Yoram Harpaz
The human
genome
project:
blessing or
curse?
Why do
people
marry?
Open
Undermining
Rich
Is a ‘new
middle east’
possible?
Connected
Loaded
Practical
Open
Insight
Action Ethics
Opportunity
Energize
and
organize
learning
Where big
questions
come from
People
make
them
up
...
Including
learners!
Do we all
have the
same
rights?
Do we have to
be sad
sometimes to
be happy at
others?
Can
anything
be art?
Brainstorming...

Question focus from
teacher

Brainstorming

Sort open from closed
questions

Convert between the two

Prioritize most important
Energize
and organize
learning
People make
them up
Including
learners!
Where big
questions go
Questions
to
live
with
Eternal
questions
What is
virtue?
Where did the
universe come
from and where
is it going?
What are the
forces that lead
to war and how
can we manage
them better?
Universal questions
1. What makes a decision
necessary?
2. What are my options?
3. What are the likely
consequences?
4. How important are they?
5. Which option is best in
light of the consequence
and importance?
What
makes
you say
that?
I used to
think...Now
I think...
Connect
Extend
Challenge
What if
not?
What’s
the real
problem?
People make
them up
Including
learners!
To live with
Eternal
questions
Universal
questions
What about
answers?
Abundant
answers
But often not
final answers
To live with
Eternal
questions
Universal
questions
What big
questions
wonder at
Wondering at
Not just
wondering about
Where did the
universe come
from and where
is it going?
1100-1130 AD
Mimbres Culture,
American
Southwest
600-800 AD
Panama
1500-1000 BC
Jōmon culture
Japan
3000-2000 BC
Spain
What led to the Industrial
revolution occurring when and
where it did, when for thousands
of years many civilizations had
impressive technology and
economic systems?
What do you think might have
been the causes of the industrial
revolution and why?
What are the three causes of the
industrial revolution?
Open
Wondering at
Insight
Action Ethics
Opportunity
Not just
wondering
about
People make
them up
Abundant
answers
But often not
final answers
Energize
and organize
learning
To live with
Eternal
questions
Universal
questions
Including
learners!