Day 3 of my Questioning Quest belongs to a question from 2 of my Robotics students this afternoon.
They had been developing their code, testing the robot and making adjustments to improve its performance. Next thing I see their Tank Robot from Mind Kits no longer has its tracks on it as they did their next round of testing.
Distracted from helping another group I walked over asking what was going on. Their reply stopped me in my tracks:
We were just wondering what would happen if we took off the tracks
I laughed and told them what a perfect reply it was, threw them a few more questions: What happened? Why do you think that happened? etc and then left them to their ponderings.
I have written before about valuing and developing curiosity (prompted by this awesome book by Tom Barrett) and it was awesome to see it truly occurring in action this afternoon.
It did make me think though, when was the last time I wondered out loud in front of students to model my curiosity?
When was the last time you wondered with/in front of students?
Steve Mouldey 