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Activity 2: Choose your topic for this module


Reading: 30 mins
Selecting Topic: 30 mins
Designing Questions: 45 mins
Interacting with mentor: 15 mins

2 hours                                                        

full time



 

During this module, we would prefer you to look for information which you can use in your classroom. Identify a section of work that you will be covering in class later this year, preferably once you've completed this module. List some of the open-ended questions about this section of work to which you would like to find information. Remember that open-ended questions do not have obvious answers, and usually an "answer" is achieved by producing new information e.g. an opinion or point of view, backed up by factual information.

The purpose of these questions is for you to be able to:

  • Compare how different search techniques give you different answers when searching for the same information;
  • Decide which search techniques suit your needs best;
  • Use information to produce new information (new understanding, ideas and opinions);
  • Present similar questions to your learners so that they, too, may produce new information.

You may, of course, search for information on more than one section of work during this course. However, we would like you to focus on one section and work on that throughout the course.

If you have ever studied the module on Questioning and Thinking Skills, you could use the questions that you asked in the last activity of that module.

Defining your questions

Send e-mail to your mentor and
  • Describe the section of work you have chosen,
  • and Include the questions that you have listed.
Discuss these questions with your mentor until you have agreed on the best questions.
 


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We recommend that you go to Activity 3: Comparing search results.

 
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