Basic Civil Engineering first year Notes- Chapter 4 Building.pptx
Questioning for Staff
1. Questioning and Posing Problems
✤ The important thing is to not stop questioning
- Albert Einstein
✤ Millions saw the apple fall, only Newton asked why
- Bernard Baruch
4. Types of questions:
✤ What’s the capital of Spain?
✤ What were Cliff Richard’s 5 Christmas number 1s?
✤ Do you believe in God?
✤ Why do cats purr?
✤ Why does chocolate taste so good?
✤ What are the alternatives to violent protests?
✤ If it’s cold today, then why doesn’t it snow ?
7. Make up your own:
✤ To check factual knowledge
✤ To look for alternative values / beliefs / opinions
8. Make up your own:
✤ To check factual knowledge
✤ To look for alternative values / beliefs / opinions
✤ To look for connections or relationships between things
9. Make up your own:
✤ To check factual knowledge
✤ To look for alternative values / beliefs / opinions
✤ To look for connections or relationships between things
✤ To pose a hypothetical problem (what if?)
10. Make up your own:
✤ To check factual knowledge
✤ To look for alternative values / beliefs / opinions
✤ To look for connections or relationships between things
✤ To pose a hypothetical problem (what if?)
✤ To recognise discrepancies and phenomena and find out
their causes