How to use the Discussion Question Generator.
Discussion questions should invite evidence and multiple reasonable interpretations. Avoid questions that merely ask learners to guess the teacher's preferred answer.
Make the workflow fit your task.
Choose a question that invites reasoning about the supplied material and allows more than one defensible interpretation where appropriate. Add a follow-up asking for evidence, and distinguish discussion from guessing the teacher's preferred wording.
- What you provide
- Reading or topic and seminar goal.
- What you get
- Open questions prompting evidence-based discussion.
See the input and the result.
Illustrative input and output · a teaching example, not a live WebAct run
Example input
Class reads a character's difficult decision in a story.
Completed example
Which detail best explains the decision, and what other choice was available? Ask students to cite the text.
Load this input into the prompt, then copy it to WebAct to try the task. Your result may differ from the illustration.
Decisions and troubleshooting.
Should discussion questions always have no right answer?
Some interpretations are better supported than others. Open discussion still needs criteria and evidence from the material.
Why does the class discussion remain at the level of opinion?
Ask which detail supports the view and how an alternative interpretation handles that detail. Connect claims back to the shared source.
Try it with your own source.
Replace the example with your material in the task prompt. Keep the requirements you need, then copy the task into WebAct.
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