Thinking with Technology
Module 3 - Curriculum-Framing Questions to Support Thinking Skills
Module 3 - Curriculum-Framing Questions to Support Thinking Skills
Opens continua
Openness is a continuum (i.e. there are degrees of openness), and a question has various aspects to it (e.g. defining the problem, choosing the method, arriving at the solution), each of which can be classified according to its degree of openness (Gott and Duggan, 1987).
The decision of whether a question is closed or not cannot be made apart from the context in which the question is posed:
The OPENS continua
| CLOSED | OPEN |
|
| Defining the problem: | ||
| closely defined | <--------------------> |
not defined |
| Choosing the method: | ||
| closely defined | <--------------------> |
not defined |
| Arriving at solutions: | ||
| one | <--------------------> |
many |
(The OPENS continua based on Simon and Jones, 1992, from Gott and Duggan, 1987)
Note: this was intended for classifying variable-based investigations, and so might not be completely applicable to other kinds of projects.
