Week 3 Crafting the Driving Question

June 16, 2011 – This week I thought I’d just label the criteria for a Driving Question. It goes as follows:

• “Driving Questions are Open-Ended. We must allow students to adequately answer the question given, yet allowing them to take ownership over the project. Be sure as you design your Driving Question that you think carefully about time, resources and student skills.
• Driving Questions are Provocative. The driving question must sustain students’ interest during the entire project and challenge students to go beyond the obvious.
• Driving Questions get at the Heart of a subject area. The driving question can be focused at the heart of an issue, allowing students to investigate.
• Driving Questions are Challenging. Students should be encouraged, through the use of the driving question, to confront different situations.
• Driving Questions need to Interest Students. Create driving questions from real-world situations, igniting an interest for students.
• Driving Questions are consistent with Standards. While driving questions should be challenging, they should also lead students to master the agreed upon content, knowledge and skills that define a course of study. “ (Rice, 2009)


June 16, 2011 - Driving Question for my project: As an Entrepreneur, how do create an effective advertising and marketing campaign on a fixed budget you deem necessary to bring in new customers while keeping your business afloat?

A driving question, I learned, is a question that will open up the entire unit for the class. Students use these questions to formulate sub-questions that allow them understand the complexity of an authentic real-world problem.

This week was a little more difficult for me than usual. Perhaps I am starting to slow down, but I think I just have a hard time developing complex questions.

Source:
Rice, K. (2009). Edtech 542 week 3: part i & ii - craft the driving question. Retrieved from http://edtech.mrooms.org/mod/resource/view.php?inpopup=true&id=19786