The Essential Questions are coming...
Hi I'm Chris Labash. Welcome to the Essential Questions blog. If you've come here from my web page, you already know why you're here. If you've come from elsewhere, here's what this is about: I teach in Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College (more on me and it here ) and like most teachers, I try to ask provocative questions in class that go beyond the usual class-oriented content. It's easy to ask questions about best practices in communication or innovation (the subjects I most often teach); harder to ask questions of an existential nature. And while I'm not trying to turn my classes into philosophy classes, I do want to stimulate critical thought, especially as we move increasingly forward in a world where evidence, intelligence and humanity seem to matter less and less. Inspired by John Brockman and edge.org's Annual Question , I ask students to create evidence-supported final presentations that address such "essential questions" a...