Q-Tasks: How To Empower Students To Ask Questions and Care About the Answers

Questions that students care about are crucial to successful learning. Q-Tasks was instrumental in showing teachers how to empower students to develop their own questions and build their critical thinking and inquiry skills. In this new, totally revised edition, the book also addresses how teachers can use the power of technology to promote collaboration among students. Questioning is a skill that needs to be nurtured. The practical and flexible exercises in this book offer a smorgasbord of choices for teachers to use to help students formulate good questions in an information-rich environment. It puts the student at the centre of their own learning as they formulate questions that are meaningful to them. Q task extensions introduce digital components that facilitate collaboration and are designed to appeal to tech-savvy students. This remarkable book incorporates into classroom instruction those library and research skills that are essential to learning in our information age. More than one hundred tried-and-proven classroom activities in this practical book will take students beyond memorization and rote learning. Teachers will find innovative ways to help students ask real questions that focus on personal understanding and give them ownership of their learning experience.