James W. Sanderson
Warren Berger
Martha D Starks
People in the news using beautiful questions
When you’re a questionologist, you can’t help spotting beautiful questions in your reading. Below are a few I found by chance in the news.
kids asking questions
Encouraging student questioning
Expanding my original Edutopia story by offering up some of the insights and ideas from educators that couldn’t fit in the Edutopia piece—but that are well worth sharing.
Who is entitled to ask questions in class? {Excerpt from AMBQ}
The issue of “who gets to ask the questions in class” is one that touches on matters of purpose, power, control, and, arguably, even race and social class. An excerpt from A MORE BEAUTIFUL QUESTION.
Michelle Obama on friendship, fear of failure, and focusing on learning
Michelle Obama’s advice to her younger self offers some good life lessons and even a shout-out to asking questions.
Can a school be built on questions? {AMBQ excerpt}
Deborah Meier on “What if our schools could train students to be better lifelong learners by enabling them to be better questioners?“
What happened when young Woz asked “Why”
Steve Wozniak has lots of stories. But the ones I found most interesting have to do with Wozniak’s curiosity as a boy. When he would ask his engineer father questions, the answers changed Wozniak’s world. Whose world have you changed lately?
Curious kids: What makes them question so much? {AMBQ excerpt}
In this short excerpt from AMBQ, I ask leading child psychologists about what’s going on kids’ developing brains and why that causes them to ask hundreds of questions a day—up until about age five.
“Neoteny”: How can we release the 5-year-old questioner inside all of us?
LinkedIn’s Jeff Weiner and Albert Einstein
Warren on the web