Hi folks!
At the behest of Judy Mortrude to contribute questions to a relevant community of practice at LINCS following the completion of my most recent "Deeper Learning Through Questioning - Writing" course, I thought I'd enter some questions actually generated by one of the instructor/students in the class, named Ayesha. She was responding to an article putting forth a strategy called, "Questioning the Author". Instead of positing questions she'd ask of her students, she approached it AS the reader. I appreciated this, as I'd rather have my instructor/students guide their own students to generating their own questions, as opposed to only generating their own from the teacher perspective, and then having students answer them. I though her questions were very thoughtful:
- How does critical thinking provoke an investigative study?
- Is there any connection between critical and creative thinking according to what you have explained in your article?
- Why and how 'open-ended' questions provoke divergent thinking among adult learners?
- How do you justify the excessive integration of social media and its role in the learning of adult learners in higher education classes?
I don't submit these necessarily to get answers to them, of course, but I thought they might be of interest to others at LINCS/TEAL who teach courses online.
Eric