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Curiosity and Questions

Ways to use your curiosity to solve real world problems.

Objectives: Think about curiosity. What do you know about being curious? Look at ways to ask questions to use curiosity to solve problems. Try out using the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) to solve actual problems.

Why QFT? Learn about QFT. Try the process on a small activity to walk through the process and gain some experience. Look at how the QFT process can be used for other projects and questions.

Demonstrate how QFT works in practice. See the range of questions that can come out using the QFT process. Start finding solutions to problems.

Small everyday problem. Easy to see need or opportunity for a solutions. No good answers. No one right answer. Any ideas are fine. Opportunity to come up with some goofy "out of the box" thinking. Suitable for any k-14 class.

Just one odd sock

What can you do with one odd sock? What color is the sock? What size is it? Can we use other things besides the sock? What are we supposed to do about this?

Is the QFocus a question? 1 2 3 Is there too much information? 1 2 3 Will the QFocus limit students to only one line of thinking? 1 2 3 Is there a word that might distract students? 1 2 3 Will the students perceive the QFocus as just another way of presenting the teacher's message or ideas? 1 2 3

QFocus looks ok. Not too much direction. Maybe too obscure but starting point for first QFT activity.

Will this solve some problem? Is it something that will help you do something? Does it help you ask more questions?

Online discussion post

Does the Qfocus and this QFT process make you more curious about the problem? Can you use this for other problems or assignments? Should we use this for other lessons or projects in this class? Should other teachers use QFT too?