How Should we Change the way we ask Questions? | Rika Drea & Alan Barstow | TEDxCrossroadsSchool

Why do we ask questions? Do we ask the right questions at the wrong times? Are questions even necessary when we already know the answers to them? Teachers Rika Drea & Alan Barstow break down the purpose of questions to help us understand why we ask them in the first place. Rika Drea and Alan Barstow currently teach English at Crossroads School and have a combined 30 years of teaching experience. Drea has taught literature, writing, and ESL in Washington, D.C., and Shikoku, Japan. Barstow has taught English and AIDS awareness for the Peace Corps in southern Africa and at-risk youth in Los Angeles's juvenile halls and elsewhere. On shared adventures and mishaps, the pair always turns, as they do in their teaching, to posing thoughtful questions: for example, on the summit of Mt. Whitney, they questioned, "How should we measure the pleasure of climbing verses our environmental impact on this mountain?" In life and in the classroom, Barstow and Drea strive to uncover profound implications hidden within even the most basic questions.

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“Questions and Ideas, Don’t Forget them, ” …The title of a journal that encourages you to keep the journal with you, and particularly in places where ideas seem to come to you. This is another journal by this author that I use consistently (fairly consistently anyway) You could probably create your own journal or notebook to accomplish this, but I like how this one is laid out.