{"id":62565,"date":"2018-02-08T15:23:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T20:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=62565"},"modified":"2018-02-08T15:58:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T20:58:36","slug":"how-to-use-questions-to-promote-student-learning-benson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2018\/02\/08\/how-to-use-questions-to-promote-student-learning-benson\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use Questions to Promote Student Learning [Benson]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scholarlyteacher.com\/blog\/using-questions-for-student-learning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>How to Use Questions to Promote Student Learning <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from scholarlyteacher.com by Spencer Benson<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Developing Faculty Generated Questions<br \/>\n<\/strong>Developing good questions that enhance student learning and engage all students is difficult. The challenge is constructing questions that engage learning and are \u201cun-Googleable\u201d meaning that students cannot find the answer with a simple online search engine. Some ways to help make questions \u201cun-Googleable\u201d are to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Avoid questions that simply ask for facts or definitions,<\/li>\n<li>Ask the students to answer the questions based on their own personal experience,<\/li>\n<li>Ask students for their personal opinion on an issue,<\/li>\n<li>Ask students to describe the answer a different person might give, e.g., a relative, a famous person (historic or present), the textbook or assigned readings author, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>These three questions align with the various levels of Bloom\u2019s cognitive taxonomy, \u201cwhat\u201d asks about facts and content (remembering), \u201chow\u201d asks about relationships (understanding and analyzing), and \u201cwhy\u201d asks about higher cognitive level skills (creating and evaluating).<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Use Questions to Promote Student Learning &#8212; from scholarlyteacher.com by Spencer Benson Excerpt: Developing Faculty Generated Questions Developing good questions that enhance student learning and engage all students is difficult. The challenge is constructing questions that engage learning and are \u201cun-Googleable\u201d meaning that students cannot find the answer with a simple online search [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,115,302,71,3,419,119,102,223,173,66,50,188,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-instructional-design","category-learning","category-learning-theories","category-pedagogy","category-student-related","category-teaching-learning","category-teaching-online","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62567,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62565\/revisions\/62567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}