A great day, today. I’ll be working with a class and focusing on my very favorite topic: curiosity! What are you curious about? What do you wonder? What do you want to know? How will you find out?
Kids will have a chance to frame their own questions. Hopefully, they will be questions that are burning in their minds. Hopefully, the kids will not be so “schoolwise” that they’ll choose questions with answers they already know, or questions that will be simple to answer. We want questions that are meaningful and that may take some real effort to answer. We want questions that reflect wonder rather than good grades.
Finding answers to questions that matter is a journey – a quest – that involves thinking and rethinking, sorting through mounds of information, analyzing, and making conclusions. The process can be both exhilarating and frustrating. I love it!
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