Vanessa Keenan

I am continuously surprised by how quickly people are turning to technology to do their thinking for them. It is as though we are unwilling to do the hard cognitive work anymore and this worries me. Students will not be able to think well in the future if we don't give them opportunities to carry the cognitive load. We need to let them sit with questions for longer periods of time and join up their thinking with others. Recently I was in a conversation about citing authors and plagiarism....

I've spent the best part of three decades working in IB schools, holding a variety of roles, coaching, leading, redesigning curriculum...

I have always had a fascination with questions. What makes a good question? How to know what question to ask? What can questions unlock?...