When preschoolers ask ‘why’ they’re not trying to annoy adults or simply prolong a conversation—they’re actually trying to get to the bottom of things.
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Teaching kids the “Question Formulation Technique”
Shifting the balance of power in classrooms by putting students more in charge of their own questions.
Want to inspire more curiosity and inquiry in kids?
There’s a whole world of “children’s question books” that can help inspire more curiosity and inquiry in kids—and librarian Traci Sanders has curated more than 80 of the best of them in a new section on this site.
Top 10 Critical Thinking Books
Critical thinking may be THE issue of our times. If you want to better understand what critical thinking is these “top 10” books stand out from the crowd.
5 Ways to Help Students Become Better Questioners
Suggestions (based on input from question-friendly teachers, schools, programs, and organizations) on how to encourage more questioning in the classroom and hopefully, beyond it.
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Introducing the 10th-anniversary edition of A MORE BEAUTIFUL QUESTION, with new sections on leadership, critical thinking, AI, relationship-building, and more.
The 8 superpowers of questioning
I created a classroom poster that frames questioning as a set of “superpowers” that can help you explore, think like a ninja, discover new possibilities, create cool new things, and maybe even change the world.
A Children’s Library of Question Books
This curated library of children’s books that foster the concepts of wonder, curiosity, and questioning has more than...
These 5 questions are “creativity killers.” Stop asking them.
Questions can fire the imagination and feed your creativity. However some questions can undermine creative confidence or cause us to misdirect our efforts.
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Asking “hindsight questions” to truly learn from past experiences
In Big Think’s new “Hindsight” series, I talk about how we can find promising seeds of potential growth and improvement embedded in our past successes as well as in our failures....
Top 10 Critical Thinking Books
Critical thinking may be THE issue of our times. If you want to better understand what critical thinking is these “top 10” books stand out from the crowd.
Why do I believe what I believe? (And what if I’m wrong?) (Excerpt)
It isn’t easy to think about your own thinking, let alone to question it. It requires us to see from the outside in and ask questions about what we find.
5 Ways to Help Students Become Better Questioners
Suggestions (based on input from question-friendly teachers, schools, programs, and organizations) on how to encourage more questioning in the classroom and hopefully, beyond it.