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Essential Questions to Shape an IT/Film and Media Curriculum
In every class and every subject, students will learn to ask and to answer these questions:
 * What story is being told? How? What values and motifs do we associate with that story?
 * From whose viewpoint are we seeing or reading or hearing? From what angle or perspective? How does that viewpoint and perspective influence and frame understanding?
 * How do we know when we know? What's the evidence, and how reliable is it? What bias is in place?
 * How are things, events, or people connected to each other? What is the cause and what is the effect? How do they fit together?
 * What is the relationship between sender and reciever? How are they mediated? What are the properties of the medium which is being used, and how does it influence and frame understanding?
 * What's new and what's old? Have we run across this idea before? If so, how does our previous experience affect what we think we see?
 * So what? Why does it matter? What does it all mean?


 * Answers to Essential Questions can NOT be found**
 * Students must construct own answers
 * Make their own meaning from information they have gathered
 * Create insight
 * Answering such questions may take a lifetime!
 * Answers may only be tentative
 * Information gathering may take place outside of formal learning environments
 * Engage students in real life applied problem solving
 * Essential Questions lend themselves to multidisciplinary investigations.

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