After reading more of Warren Berger’s A More Beautiful Question I came up with more questions to add to my “quick fire” brainstorm session that I detailed in this blog post. Berger brought up many interesting points and made me consider my questions more deeply. Specifically, why am I not taking the initiative to answer my questions about student apathy and self-regulation? Berger (2014) presented Carlin's question, “When we’ve lost our keys and are searching for them, he wondered, why do we keep looking in the same few places, over and over?” (p. 85). This is something that truly resonated with me because I witness this in the classroom often. In many cases we are implementing the same interventions to inspire student motivation in academics and to promote better behavior. I have also noticed that these are not working. So what do we do? How to we come up with an effective initiative? I have asked many why questions, but as Berger (2014) presented, to solve a problem you must consider and act on the "How". At first thinking about acting on the questions I asked in my blog post linked above, was super intimidating. I realized it is because they are problems with no one right solution, they have many different answers and even those answers aren’t 100% correct; these questions are questions about wicked problems. Picture retrieved from https://socialmarketing.blogs.com/r_craiig_lefebvres_social/2012/09/social-marketing-and-wicked-problems.html I created the video below to illustrate three different organizational structures I came up with for my questions from the “quick fire” activity. This was a challenge for me at first because I had to consider a lot of things and different contexts when organizing the questions, i.e. teacher perspective versus student perspective etc. By the end my perspective changed. I realized I need to be thinking about questions in different contexts more often. References
Berger, W. (2014). A More Beautiful Question. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. On social marketing and social change. Social marketing and wicked problems. (2012). Retrieved from https://socialmarketing.blogs.com/r_craiig_lefebvres_social/2012/09/social-marketing-and-wicked-problems.html
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