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Asking Essential Questions: Essential Question Generator

Essential Question Menu

Media Target
  • Personal devices
    • Cell phones
    • MP3 Players
    • Smart phones
  • Music
    • Digital
    • Performance
    • Popular
    • Alternative
  • Social Networking
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • Pinterest
    • Instagram
    • Blogging
  • Broadcast
    • Television
    • Radio
  • Video/Movies
    • Netflix
    • YouTube
    • Hidden Cameras
  • Computers
    • Tablets
    • PCs
    • One to one computing in schools
  • Software Application
    • Cloud-based
    • App-based
  • Monitoring Technology
    • GPS
    • CCTV
    • Spyware 
  • Body technology
    • thumbprint ID
    • body scans
  • Periodicals
    • Magazines
    • Newspapers
  • Books
    • Print
    • eBooks
  • Internet
    • Search Engines
    • Browsers
    • Databases
  • School Officials
  • Students
  • American or Global Society
  • Teenagers
  • Politics/ Politicians
  • Women
  • Men
  • Minority groups
  • Sports
  • Journalism
  • Entertainment Industry
  • Privacy
  • Piracy
  • Copyright
  • Advertising
  • Civil/ Individual Rights
  • Literacy (visual,  traditional, etc.)
  • Human Brain/ Body/ Self
  • Creativity
  • Safety

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Try it...

Practice applying your questioning skills by asking an essential question that blends an aspect of communiation media and a target topic.

Essential Question Templates:

  • What are the effect(s) of [actor] on [target]?
  • What is the future of [actor] for [target]?
  • What are the advantages (or disadvantages) of using [actor] for [target]?
  • How do restrictions on [actor] effect [target]?
  • How will the dependence of [target] on [actor] effect the future?
  • What is the role of [actor] in the relationship between [target] and [target]?

Have a great essential question "template" to share.  Leave it in a comment below!