Kick-Ass Driving Questions

Written by a member of the Buck Institute for Education, this blog post gives a good explanation of the nuanced differences between project-BL, problem-BL, and other "X"BL instructional methods. Everything falls under the grand tradition of inquiry-based learning, dating back to Dewey and even further back to Socrates and the Socratic method.

From the Global Digital Citizen Foundation: "In our EQ Guide, we define an essential question as one that leads us to explore the problem and choose from plans and strategies to generate an applicable solution. It’s much more than that, though. A good essential question: inspires a quest for knowledge and discovery, encourages and develops critical thinking processes, leads students to engineer real-world solutions for real-world problems, is all about possibilities.

I believe that we are looking at academic writing because in graduate and undergraduate school, we will be required to know how to academic write. Also, I believe that academic writing has something to do with our inquiry projects that will be due at the end of the semester.