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The best predictor of success is how innately curious
Nobel Laureate Professor Thomas Südhof
a person or candidate is. It’s been a better predictor than anything else I have seen for actually doing something interesting and of impact.”
Intelligence is often overrated.
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Tiger Tyagarajan, chief executive of Genpact,
“Curiosity opens up so many other windows. You’re more inclusive. You question more, and you listen.
In today’s world, if you’re not curious, you’re dead, because every day is so different from yesterday.”
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CQ1. I ask questions in class.
2. My questions are simple and easy.
3. I feel comfortable asking difficult questions
4. I can identify and emulate the strategies of
5. I believe curiosity is important and can
Name:Grade:Class:
curious people.
articulate why to myself and others.
or leaving questions I ask unanswered.
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Misconceptions Truths
▪Questions are done to readers
▪Questions are asked by someone else (teacher)
▪Occur at the end of the task
▪Used for assessment purposes
▪Have a“right” answer
▪Success is determined by speed and accuracy of the answers.
▪Good learners spontaneously, purposefully ask questions before, during and after experience
▪Good learners know asking questions deepens their understanding
▪Good readers have the knowledge and ability to ask many different kinds of questions
▪Good readers use questions for many different purposes.
▪Good learners understand the best questions have no easy answers
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• I wonder • Why •What does this mean •Your question made me think of•How come •Why is it that•How is ______ like_________ •What would happen if
Language of Questioning
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A good question is like a good workout.
It’s difficult, but you feel great after you answer it.
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THE PRACTICE
OF CURIOSITY
DREAM
AUDACIOUSLY CHALLENGE
Grapple
WONDERBOLDLY
Struggle FAILThink Deeply
Dwell in AweMonday, July 21, 14
THE PRACTICE
OF CURIOSITY
DREAM
AUDACIOUSLY CHALLENGE
Grapple
WONDERBOLDLY
Struggle FAILThink Deeply
Dwell in AweMonday, July 21, 14
ambitious yet actionable
shifts the way we think or perceive
serves as a catalyst to bring about change
A beautiful question is
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Monday, July 21, 14
ambitious yet actionable
shifts the way we think or perceive
serves as a catalyst to bring about change
A beautiful question is
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Monday, July 21, 14
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65 countries - 122,000 classrooms
$24,000 Sponsor 7 children
Can you believe a class of 23 students are building a library in a country across the world?
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Everything in the Universe Is Made of Math – Including You
but Newton was the only one
-Bernard Baruch-
Millions saw the apple fall
brave enough to ask
WHY?Monday, July 21, 14