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title: "Asking students questions"
date: 2009-02-19
url: https://learningischange.com/2009/02/19/asking-students-questions/
author: Ben Wilkoff
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tags: []
---

# Asking students questions

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This Saturday, at [Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation](http://colearning.wikispaces.com/), we will have the privilege of hosting a student panel. During which , we will be able to ask the burning questions of intelligent and engaged students. I didn’t realize it until today, but it is so rare now that I take the chance to ask difficult and reflective questions of students.

I can’t believe that is rare. I never thought it would be when I left the classroom. But somehow, now that I am no longer in the classroom, I am starved for answers from students. Why should it be rare to ask important and big questions of students, for any educator (in the classroom or not)? For example, I want to ask some students about how [facebook](http://facebook.com/) is changing the way that they write a [research paper](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_paper). I want to ask them why they aren’t using twitter. I want to ask them what they want to preserve from their school career into their working career. I want to ask them what matters in learning.

Does it makes sense to have a place to ask questions of students, to have them engaged in a larger learning network with adults (not as a selfish way of simply asking and not answering anything, I would like to give back to students in a wider network too)? I am struck that this may sound weird and kind of creepy, but I’m really interested in the idea of where the space is that adults and students interact. I know that [Students 2.0](http://students2oh.org/) did a lot of work around this topic, but I am not sure that they/we have come up with a real learning environment that includes both adults and students.

Where does this exist?

Perhaps it starts with asking those questions of our panel on Saturday.Perhaps.

[Submit the questions you would like engaged students to answer.](http://colearning.wikispaces.com/Questions+for+Students+2009)

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