What does The Right Question Institute have in common with WhatsApp? Well, it’s not $16 billion of Facebook’s money. But, here are a few parallels that occurred to me: I. VISION: Reach lots of people WhatsApp: Jan Koum, one of the co-founders of WhatsApp “expects five billion people to be using smartphones within the next […]
Equalizing Access to Innovation: WhatsApp and The Right Question Institute offer simple and powerful resources
Reflections on the QFT, the Simplest Approach to Student Centered Learning
The Right Question Institute offers professional development sessions across the country on Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions. Recently, one of our guest associates, Richard Wallace (@wally), facilitated a session and then offered his reflection on the Question Formulation Technique as a student centered learning strategy for any school environment. In his reflection, he […]
InQuiring Minds: Engaging Patients and Motivating Students
After a brief hiatus we are back with the latest installment of inQuiring Minds. We continue to expand our work in health care, where community health workers are now learning to teach patients to ask better questions and participate in decisions. Stay tuned to this blog for more updates about RQI’s work in health care […]
Increasing Rigor in an Elementary Math Classroom
This is a guest post by educator Jay Corrigan. “Who’s that?” Several of the 5th graders in the classroom asked that question aloud as I stepped into the room. I was there to try out the Question Formulation Technique. I had read the book Make Just One Change, studied the blogs, and watched Dan Rothstein […]
A question is…a unique and potentially sophisticated instrument.
A question is more than the simple thing we might think it is – it’s a unique and potentially sophisticated instrument. – Leon Neyfakh in “Are We Asking the Right Questions” in the Boston Sunday Globe IDEAS section, May 20, 2012 Week in and week out, The Boston Sunday Globe IDEAS section offers one of […]
“He Prizes Questions More Than Answers”
We’ve been so busy that we haven’t been able to set aside the time to write. But, the stories coming in are too compelling for us not to write, so we’ll get started again. Before we start writing about them, though, a short piece in yesterday’s NY Times helped spur me back to the keyboard. […]