Choose a quote from the TED Talk by Andrew Vincent. Why do these words resonate with you? What application of this quote can you make in your own work and/or life?
"Ask more and tell less." I felt this deeply in relation to my students and my children at home. I need to ask questions that invite conversation and encourage relationships. I need to make sure the questions I ask are not fishing for a particular answer. I need to ask a question, let the kids say exactly what they want to say, and then ask more questions rather than quickly moving on or making corrections. That leads me to another quote: "Unlearn the desire that every question has a right answer." I need to allow for creative interpretation, discussion, and exploration more.
A quote from Andrew Vincent’s TED Talk that resonated with me was, “Ask more, talk less.” These words stand out because they flip the traditional image of a teacher as the primary speaker in the classroom and remind me that real learning happens when students are the ones thinking, questioning, and discussing. This quote pushes me to be more intentional about the kinds of opportunities I create for student voice. In my own teaching, I can apply this by designing lessons that prioritize inquiry over explanation—asking guiding questions, giving students time to wrestle with ideas, and allowing them to articulate their thinking before I step in. In life, the quote encourages me to be a better listener and to approach conversations with curiosity rather than quick responses. “Ask more, talk less” is a simple reminder that powerful growth—whether academic or personal—often begins with listening.
"Ask more/tell or talk less." I agree we ask and answer questions the way we want the answer to be. I feel we especially do this with small children because we may think they can't give enough of an answer. I used the "Exit Ticket," in my classroom at the end of the day as they were lining up for the buses. "What did you learn or like about today?" I didn't let them parrot from one another. They had to give me something I knew they had come up with. At first this is hard because they want to use the first one, they hear, but if you continue to ask more, they will provide more. I also think we ask/answer questions throughout the course of the day, hoping to get a feeling that everyone understood the lesson. Wait time is also in that "Ask more/ talk & or tell" scenario. Some kids need that extra time to respond and I know it's easy to want to move along to get to something else.
Open ended questions like: "How did it feel when...", "How did you come to the conclusion?", "Tell me more." are some examples that he gave that I think would help me either create raport with students or to ask in lecture to get more than just a single number for an answer. I would also use some questions like this with my children when they are school age and coming home from school.
I think these words resonate with me because I do use them a lot, probably too much. I think yes/no answers are misleading because like the book states, one student might know. However, the rest of the class may not. I think that is where you get in trouble- assuming because one person knows, they ALL know.
I also hate when people ask me a yes/no question like they are really talking to me. You don't find out that much when you ask that type of question.
Choose a quote from the TED Talk by Andrew Vincent. Why do these words resonate with you? What application of this quote can you make in your own work and/or life?
I love the quote about never losing our childlike curiosity. This quote resonates with me because I have a young child and she is always curious and asks about stuff she doesn't know about or understand. I love that! We need to stay that way! Curiosity leads to growth. Unfortunately we are also told that 'curiosity killed the cat' which is intentionally to make us less curious (and maybe keep us safe is some circumstances).But we need to continue to wonder our way through life. We need to foster this in our students and in our classrooms as well!
"Ask more, talk less." This ties directly with our previous Ted Talk about being a good listener. I find that in my classroom I do most of the talking (control issue), I need to be better about asking the questions and letting my students share their knowledge. --Which is why I am taking this course :) I feel I do a better job of this at home and in my social life.
I enjoyed this quote the most from the video. I think it's important to ask the students questions to help them get to the answer versus just telling them the answer. They need to work for and not be given the answer instantly. It then becomes a learned behavior then and students will ask me questions instead of looking for the answers for themself. I try to rephrase the question for students to try and help them without just giving them the answer. It teaches the students to look at it from different angles and also shows them that they most likely know the answer, but they just need confirmation that they are on the right path to that answer.
"...Answering yes/no questions really isn't the real question. We may have answered that but now we need to answer the real question."
This quote stuck out to me because it is so true. We answer yes and no questions but 90% of the time, there is another question that we still have to figure out. Same goes for the classroom. As educators it is important we are asking the 'real' question and not just letting students say yes or no and then us answering their 'real' question for them.
“Ask more and tell less” I’ve also noticed that if I jump in too quickly, students learn to rely on me instead of themselves. By rephrasing questions or asking them to explain their thinking, it helps them realize they often already know the answer, they just need reassurance. Over time, this builds better habits and encourages them to problem-solve.
"Ask more and tell less." To me, this means ask questions to learn what students (or anyone in our lives) think, know, feel, etc. Listen. Pause. Then have a conversation with them to follow up and learn more. "Tell less" is a reminder to me not to use the time I should be listening to think about what my response should be.
"As we reach secondary school we start chasing exam results, we don't think about the question at all. All we want to do is come up with the answer that is required to get me the grade." I really understand this comment about how students are so concerned with the answer to the question and if they are correct. They do care about the process or if they understand the process of how to get the answer. When they are only concerned with the answer, they do not understand how to apply that process in other situations or make connections with what they are learning to real world problems.
I also think schools/government can be guilty of this sentiment, as well. Schools and states are so concerned with standardized testing scores that they forget to look at the bigger picture with the learning that occurs in classrooms.
A quote that resonated with me from this video was: “All we want to do is come up with the answer that is required to get me the grade”. With this quote, I see this from my first grade students sometime. They are quick to get an answer when even sometimes they don’t understand what the question is asking. They are in a hurry to get the answer, so they can complete the assignment and move onto the next task at hand. With this, students are missing out what the question is asking and how they solve the problem. With these students, we need to have them slow down and understand the question first and then, solve the problem.
Ask more and tell less. I for sure need to do this. I get caught up on constantly moving on that I don't actually listen. My kids tell me this at home. I need to listen and ask more questions so I am fully engaged in what is going on. I want this to make me slow down a little and become a better listener.
"Let's get back to the basics of infant hood and rediscover your curiosity." I do think that as we get older we lose our curiosity. We become so serious! I agree that discovery questions help open dialogue, help us to connect, and help us to empathize. I think as a whole, we don't even have meaningful conversations with people like we used to. Devices have take over. We all need to learn how to put down the phones, have conversations with people, and ask questions!
"Get back to infanthood and rediscover your curiosity" is the quote that really resonated with me. Life is so fast and everyone just wants to know yes and no answers instead of investing in the person we are speaking to. We all deserve to learn and be heard and asking really challenging questions where the responder has an opportunity to really show our thinking is the real way to see our students learning. I love when students ask deeper questions because they are curious. This is when a teacher can really feel they are teaching.
“Ask more—tell less.” This quote resonates with me because asking questions encourages students to think, explore, and become more involved in their learning instead of just being told what to do. When teachers ask more questions, students have opportunities to problem-solve and express their ideas.
In my work as an ECSE teacher, I can apply this by asking students guiding questions during play and learning activities rather than immediately giving them the answer or solution. This helps support their language development, independence, and critical thinking skills.
Choose a quote from the TED Talk by Andrew Vincent. Why do these words resonate with you? What application of this quote can you make in your own work and/or life?
"All we want to do is come up with the answer that is required to get me the grade that I want". This resonated with me, because I am guilty of this myself. Growing up all I cared about was just getting good grades. I wasn't necessarily focused on my actual learning. I think many of our students are like this. They are just here for the grade and not the actual learning portion. As I have gotten older, I now am more focused on learning than the grade. I constantly want to learn or try new strategies to keep my students engaged and having fun. I love learning new games that I can implement with my students. I think it is important as educators to try and spark our students interest in content more so that students are excited about actual learning the content.
Choose a quote from the TED Talk by Andrew Vincent. Why do these words resonate with you? What application of this quote can you make in your own work and/or life?
There were 2 quotes that I liked. The first one is "ask more, tell less". I really liked this quote because it puts the attention or emphasis on something other than yourself. After teaching middle school for 25 years, I see many students who think 'me' first and then (maybe) they'll think of others. I feel that you ask more questions, regardless of a first date or a new topic, it is a great way to learn more about that subject. The more you ask, the more you know.
The other quote I like is "questions can't be used too much". It goes along with the first quote in the fact that we should question everything. There are so many amazing things happening in the world that we just hear about, but never really question the authenticity of them. In this new world of AI, we should be questioning more, not less. The more you ask, the more you know.
"The question is set by somebody else." "Questions matter even more"
"Yes or no - life is rarely that simple" "the real question" "yes can mean so many things" Be careful that your question doesn't shut the door to dialogue
Never stop exploring
In regards to one of the comments he made about how yes/no questions don't really work, he said "life is rarely that simple," and while he's correct about that, I don't know that I agree that binary questions are not valuable at times. I've found with my high school students that looking at things from a very surface level first can actually activate that high-level thinking. For example, today I was having my juniors practice inserting their opinion about a text, analyzing that text, and going into more depth about a topic related to that text, the first question I asked was 'Is Mr. B a good teacher or a bad teacher?' When students who initially had trouble drawing a conclusion about him muttered or sang out "Bad!" - then I was able to ask them why and to prove it and to comment on the things he did that made him a bad teacher. Students who approached it from this framework were able to write at just as high a level as the ones who came up with something like 'Mr. B lacks empathy for his students.'
I really liked the line that was something like "Be careful that your answer doesn't shut the door to dialogue." It was a good reminder not to ask leading questions and to allow people to talk to me instead of responding the way they think I want them to respond.
"For every question that you hear, ask yourself what does that question say of the person who is asking it" is powerful because it shifts communication from a simple exchange of facts to a real act of empathy. In the classroom, this perspective is helpful, instead of just correcting a student's mistake, I can look at the nature of their question to see the specific conceptual hurdle or the creative spark they are experiencing.
Ask more, tell less. This makes you really listen when people are talking. Makes you reflect on your one question being asked and really listen to understanding. There are many times in this crazy time that I will ask question at the begin of class and realize I didn't fully listen to the responds because I was busy doing something else. Making sure to really ask the important questions.
"Context is everything" "Ask more, tell less" "Yes can mean so many things..." "Find your childlike curiosity!"
I think questions are powerful and asking open-ended questions can make all the difference. I recently went to the park with my 5 year old and I googled questions to ask kids.... we went through a handful of the questions and I didn't think much of it.... a couple weeks later - she said, "mom, remember when we were at the blue park and you asked me those questions... can we do that again? :) Made me smile. Such a simple thing, but it made a big difference to her. I'm trying to be more thoughtful in my questions. Along with not leading with statements, I'm also trying to avoid asking questions that could result in the child lying - especially if I already know the answer/truth. I'm trying to pause more and wonder with my girls - tapping into my childlike curiosity.
“The questions of discovery are the beautiful questions and they can never be used to much. They forge connection, they help us empathize, they help us get to know people, they help us understand why things are as they are.” I can do a better job asking questions about others to gain a better understanding of others around me. Taking time to try to understand others viewpoint might make me a more empathetic, and less judgemental, person. The next time that I become frustrated with one of my students for their actions, I should take a step back and ask them what they were thinking to try to gain a better understanding of their intent. So often our kids who act out are not doing so to try to upset the teacher, but rather have an underlying reason that maybe they wouldn’t be aware of without first reflecting on their thought process.
"Context is everything" -- This quote connects so clearly to my classroom. I do so much building of context as background as we read or prepare to read. I give historical background or build up knowledge about important literary movements. If you don't have the right foundational information (or sometimes just the right interesting information) -- your whole unit changes in meaning or engagement.
However, I think something that would be good to implement more is to "ask more; tell less" -- it would be nice to help students work on more research skills and have them track down more of the context information at time. We just always are so rushed for time.
“If it is worth asking one student, isn’t it worth asking them all?” Hack 1 gives a variety of ways to assume all hands are up. Which idea(s) do you plan on implementing with your own students?
"Ask more and tell less." I felt this deeply in relation to my students and my children at home. I need to ask questions that invite conversation and encourage relationships. I need to make sure the questions I ask are not fishing for a particular answer. I need to ask a question, let the kids say exactly what they want to say, and then ask more questions rather than quickly moving on or making corrections. That leads me to another quote: "Unlearn the desire that every question has a right answer." I need to allow for creative interpretation, discussion, and exploration more.
ReplyDeleteThis is Shannon Merkouris
DeleteA quote from Andrew Vincent’s TED Talk that resonated with me was, “Ask more, talk less.” These words stand out because they flip the traditional image of a teacher as the primary speaker in the classroom and remind me that real learning happens when students are the ones thinking, questioning, and discussing. This quote pushes me to be more intentional about the kinds of opportunities I create for student voice. In my own teaching, I can apply this by designing lessons that prioritize inquiry over explanation—asking guiding questions, giving students time to wrestle with ideas, and allowing them to articulate their thinking before I step in. In life, the quote encourages me to be a better listener and to approach conversations with curiosity rather than quick responses. “Ask more, talk less” is a simple reminder that powerful growth—whether academic or personal—often begins with listening.
ReplyDelete"Ask more/tell or talk less." I agree we ask and answer questions the way we want the answer to be. I feel we especially do this with small children because we may think they can't give enough of an answer. I used the "Exit Ticket," in my classroom at the end of the day as they were lining up for the buses. "What did you learn or like about today?" I didn't let them parrot from one another. They had to give me something I knew they had come up with. At first this is hard because they want to use the first one, they hear, but if you continue to ask more, they will provide more.
ReplyDeleteI also think we ask/answer questions throughout the course of the day, hoping to get a feeling that everyone understood the lesson. Wait time is also in that "Ask more/ talk & or tell" scenario. Some kids need that extra time to respond and I know it's easy to want to move along to get to something else.
Open ended questions like: "How did it feel when...", "How did you come to the conclusion?", "Tell me more." are some examples that he gave that I think would help me either create raport with students or to ask in lecture to get more than just a single number for an answer. I would also use some questions like this with my children when they are school age and coming home from school.
ReplyDeleteI chose, "Never trust a yes/no question".
ReplyDeleteI think these words resonate with me because I do use them a lot, probably too much. I think yes/no answers are misleading because like the book states, one student might know. However, the rest of the class may not. I think that is where you get in trouble- assuming because one person knows, they ALL know.
I also hate when people ask me a yes/no question like they are really talking to me. You don't find out that much when you ask that type of question.
Choose a quote from the TED Talk by Andrew Vincent. Why do these words resonate with you? What application of this quote can you make in your own work and/or life?
ReplyDeleteI love the quote about never losing our childlike curiosity. This quote resonates with me because I have a young child and she is always curious and asks about stuff she doesn't know about or understand. I love that! We need to stay that way! Curiosity leads to growth. Unfortunately we are also told that 'curiosity killed the cat' which is intentionally to make us less curious (and maybe keep us safe is some circumstances).But we need to continue to wonder our way through life. We need to foster this in our students and in our classrooms as well!
"Ask more, talk less." This ties directly with our previous Ted Talk about being a good listener. I find that in my classroom I do most of the talking (control issue), I need to be better about asking the questions and letting my students share their knowledge. --Which is why I am taking this course :) I feel I do a better job of this at home and in my social life.
ReplyDelete"Ask more and tell less"
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed this quote the most from the video. I think it's important to ask the students questions to help them get to the answer versus just telling them the answer. They need to work for and not be given the answer instantly. It then becomes a learned behavior then and students will ask me questions instead of looking for the answers for themself. I try to rephrase the question for students to try and help them without just giving them the answer. It teaches the students to look at it from different angles and also shows them that they most likely know the answer, but they just need confirmation that they are on the right path to that answer.
"...Answering yes/no questions really isn't the real question. We may have answered that but now we need to answer the real question."
ReplyDeleteThis quote stuck out to me because it is so true. We answer yes and no questions but 90% of the time, there is another question that we still have to figure out. Same goes for the classroom. As educators it is important we are asking the 'real' question and not just letting students say yes or no and then us answering their 'real' question for them.
“Ask more and tell less”
ReplyDeleteI’ve also noticed that if I jump in too quickly, students learn to rely on me instead of themselves. By rephrasing questions or asking them to explain their thinking, it helps them realize they often already know the answer, they just need reassurance. Over time, this builds better habits and encourages them to problem-solve.
"Ask more and tell less." To me, this means ask questions to learn what students (or anyone in our lives) think, know, feel, etc. Listen. Pause. Then have a conversation with them to follow up and learn more. "Tell less" is a reminder to me not to use the time I should be listening to think about what my response should be.
ReplyDelete"As we reach secondary school we start chasing exam results, we don't think about the question at all. All we want to do is come up with the answer that is required to get me the grade." I really understand this comment about how students are so concerned with the answer to the question and if they are correct. They do care about the process or if they understand the process of how to get the answer. When they are only concerned with the answer, they do not understand how to apply that process in other situations or make connections with what they are learning to real world problems.
ReplyDeleteI also think schools/government can be guilty of this sentiment, as well. Schools and states are so concerned with standardized testing scores that they forget to look at the bigger picture with the learning that occurs in classrooms.
A quote that resonated with me from this video was: “All we want to do is come up with the answer that is required to get me the grade”. With this quote, I see this from my first grade students sometime. They are quick to get an answer when even sometimes they don’t understand what the question is asking. They are in a hurry to get the answer, so they can complete the assignment and move onto the next task at hand. With this, students are missing out what the question is asking and how they solve the problem. With these students, we need to have them slow down and understand the question first and then, solve the problem.
ReplyDeleteAsk more and tell less. I for sure need to do this. I get caught up on constantly moving on that I don't actually listen. My kids tell me this at home. I need to listen and ask more questions so I am fully engaged in what is going on. I want this to make me slow down a little and become a better listener.
ReplyDelete"Let's get back to the basics of infant hood and rediscover your curiosity." I do think that as we get older we lose our curiosity. We become so serious! I agree that discovery questions help open dialogue, help us to connect, and help us to empathize. I think as a whole, we don't even have meaningful conversations with people like we used to. Devices have take over. We all need to learn how to put down the phones, have conversations with people, and ask questions!
ReplyDelete"Get back to infanthood and rediscover your curiosity" is the quote that really resonated with me. Life is so fast and everyone just wants to know yes and no answers instead of investing in the person we are speaking to. We all deserve to learn and be heard and asking really challenging questions where the responder has an opportunity to really show our thinking is the real way to see our students learning. I love when students ask deeper questions because they are curious. This is when a teacher can really feel they are teaching.
ReplyDelete“Ask more—tell less.” This quote resonates with me because asking questions encourages students to think, explore, and become more involved in their learning instead of just being told what to do. When teachers ask more questions, students have opportunities to problem-solve and express their ideas.
ReplyDeleteIn my work as an ECSE teacher, I can apply this by asking students guiding questions during play and learning activities rather than immediately giving them the answer or solution. This helps support their language development, independence, and critical thinking skills.
Choose a quote from the TED Talk by Andrew Vincent. Why do these words resonate with you? What application of this quote can you make in your own work and/or life?
ReplyDelete"All we want to do is come up with the answer that is required to get me the grade that I want". This resonated with me, because I am guilty of this myself. Growing up all I cared about was just getting good grades. I wasn't necessarily focused on my actual learning. I think many of our students are like this. They are just here for the grade and not the actual learning portion.
As I have gotten older, I now am more focused on learning than the grade. I constantly want to learn or try new strategies to keep my students engaged and having fun. I love learning new games that I can implement with my students. I think it is important as educators to try and spark our students interest in content more so that students are excited about actual learning the content.
Choose a quote from the TED Talk by Andrew Vincent. Why do these words resonate with you? What application of this quote can you make in your own work and/or life?
ReplyDeleteThere were 2 quotes that I liked. The first one is "ask more, tell less". I really liked this quote because it puts the attention or emphasis on something other than yourself. After teaching middle school for 25 years, I see many students who think 'me' first and then (maybe) they'll think of others. I feel that you ask more questions, regardless of a first date or a new topic, it is a great way to learn more about that subject. The more you ask, the more you know.
The other quote I like is "questions can't be used too much". It goes along with the first quote in the fact that we should question everything. There are so many amazing things happening in the world that we just hear about, but never really question the authenticity of them. In this new world of AI, we should be questioning more, not less. The more you ask, the more you know.
"The question is set by somebody else."
ReplyDelete"Questions matter even more"
"Yes or no - life is rarely that simple"
"the real question"
"yes can mean so many things"
Be careful that your question doesn't shut the door to dialogue
Never stop exploring
In regards to one of the comments he made about how yes/no questions don't really work, he said "life is rarely that simple," and while he's correct about that, I don't know that I agree that binary questions are not valuable at times. I've found with my high school students that looking at things from a very surface level first can actually activate that high-level thinking. For example, today I was having my juniors practice inserting their opinion about a text, analyzing that text, and going into more depth about a topic related to that text, the first question I asked was 'Is Mr. B a good teacher or a bad teacher?' When students who initially had trouble drawing a conclusion about him muttered or sang out "Bad!" - then I was able to ask them why and to prove it and to comment on the things he did that made him a bad teacher. Students who approached it from this framework were able to write at just as high a level as the ones who came up with something like 'Mr. B lacks empathy for his students.'
I really liked the line that was something like "Be careful that your answer doesn't shut the door to dialogue." It was a good reminder not to ask leading questions and to allow people to talk to me instead of responding the way they think I want them to respond.
"For every question that you hear, ask yourself what does that question say of the person who is asking it" is powerful because it shifts communication from a simple exchange of facts to a real act of empathy. In the classroom, this perspective is helpful, instead of just correcting a student's mistake, I can look at the nature of their question to see the specific conceptual hurdle or the creative spark they are experiencing.
ReplyDeleteAsk more, tell less. This makes you really listen when people are talking. Makes you reflect on your one question being asked and really listen to understanding. There are many times in this crazy time that I will ask question at the begin of class and realize I didn't fully listen to the responds because I was busy doing something else. Making sure to really ask the important questions.
ReplyDelete"Context is everything"
ReplyDelete"Ask more, tell less"
"Yes can mean so many things..."
"Find your childlike curiosity!"
I think questions are powerful and asking open-ended questions can make all the difference. I recently went to the park with my 5 year old and I googled questions to ask kids.... we went through a handful of the questions and I didn't think much of it.... a couple weeks later - she said, "mom, remember when we were at the blue park and you asked me those questions... can we do that again? :) Made me smile. Such a simple thing, but it made a big difference to her. I'm trying to be more thoughtful in my questions. Along with not leading with statements, I'm also trying to avoid asking questions that could result in the child lying - especially if I already know the answer/truth. I'm trying to pause more and wonder with my girls - tapping into my childlike curiosity.
“The questions of discovery are the beautiful questions and they can never be used to much. They forge connection, they help us empathize, they help us get to know people, they help us understand why things are as they are.” I can do a better job asking questions about others to gain a better understanding of others around me. Taking time to try to understand others viewpoint might make me a more empathetic, and less judgemental, person. The next time that I become frustrated with one of my students for their actions, I should take a step back and ask them what they were thinking to try to gain a better understanding of their intent. So often our kids who act out are not doing so to try to upset the teacher, but rather have an underlying reason that maybe they wouldn’t be aware of without first reflecting on their thought process.
ReplyDelete"Context is everything" -- This quote connects so clearly to my classroom. I do so much building of context as background as we read or prepare to read. I give historical background or build up knowledge about important literary movements. If you don't have the right foundational information (or sometimes just the right interesting information) -- your whole unit changes in meaning or engagement.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I think something that would be good to implement more is to "ask more; tell less" -- it would be nice to help students work on more research skills and have them track down more of the context information at time. We just always are so rushed for time.