8:15 - 9:45 Featured Keynote - Auditorium

Students' Questions as a Catalyst for Learning

by Dan Rothstein

Importance of universal ability to ask questions.

How to manage ignorance (all that we do not know about).
Statistics show that we stop making questions after the age of 3 years old

Curiosity -> engagement -> ownership -> deeper learning

“When you ask the question yourself, you feel like it’s your job/responsibility to answer it”

Identificar ventajas y desventajas de realizar preguntas cerradas y preguntas abiertas.

Cambiar las preguntas cerradas a abiertas y viceversa.

Las preguntas cerradas también tienen ventajas. Dan como resultado una respuesta concisa y contundente y,
si tenemos en cuenta el proceso de aprendizaje en conjunto, podemos entenderlas como punto de inflexión o
puntos decisivos que reorientan el aprendizaje.

Divergent thinking rules

1 Ask as many questions as you can
2 don’t judge
3 state them as they first come to your mind
4 prioritise

Convergent thinking
1 change from open to closed and viceversa
2 analyse each question
3 reflect about each question
4 Identify priority questions - Identify order in sequence of total questions - Making thinking process visible

When to use this Question Formulation Technique:

Engagement
Knowledge acquisition (starting point of a research Project)
Formative assessment (Understanding information and topics already treated in class)
Summative assessment

Recommendation:
Don’t correct grammar or spelling during QFT

Sacred cows
Socratic Method
Bloom taxonomy (Comprensión spinoziana)
Occam’s Razor (simplest answer tends to be the best one)
Transitioning from traditional to progressive educational models
by Tom Kaster

Contradicting roles of teacher in traditional (teacher paced) and progressive teaching (student paced)
Flipped classroom – utilizer recursos / tiempo extraescolarmente y luego aplicarlos en clase.

Jo Boaler – no fixed mindset but growth mindset (skills are not innate bur developed through learning /
practice

Teacher’s role
Guide students to self regulate self assign homework based on strengths and weaknesses

Learning habits
Self learning and learning from others
Time management
Self assessment
Individual and group work
Communication
Problem Solving.

Michelle brings the idea of a school like a museum or teaching as an art where every teaching style is
respected and not a science, where the latest method is the best.
The Guided Inquiry Cycle - by Tony Bellew

- Creating a sense of wonder