Looking to improve the discussions in your class so that they are engaging your students in Higher-Order Thinking? Here is an InfoGraphic that I found on the Four O'Clock Faculty website. It has a number of great ideas. I especially like the Question Flooding idea. It involves your students generating as many questions as come to mind about the topic at hand.At first, I was thinking "How can I write fast enough to get all of those questions written down so we can discussion them?" Further consideration brought me to the realization that this should be a student centric process. Just getting the flow of ideas is enough to kindle the fire of examination. Field the questions and then go back to them to see which ones stuck out in your students' minds. Another idea would be to have your students post them in the cloud through Tweeting (with a specific hashtag) or entering the questions into a Google Doc or Padlet or Etherpad.
Which one makes the most sense to you? Do you have any ideas that you would add to these 5 question structures?
