"Genuine inquiry is fundamentally and inescapably playful. Real
research--not the pallid 
imitation of research, the soulless but correct
transcription of properly-documented sources that so many college
assignments require--is about discovery, exploration, and persisting in
the pursuit of an answer that, once finally found, blossoms like a
magician's wand--hey presto!--into a bouquet of new questions.
We need to help students rediscover their own creativity as they play at being scholars. And when I say "play," I don't mean that we should encourage them to mimic their professors and use lots of big words they don't understand, though they may well think that's what's expected. No, we need to help them understand that research is all about the interplay of ideas, the freedom of movement among disciplines and spheres of discourse, the courage to ask a question without first knowing whether it has an answer."
from "Why we should take fun more seriously" by Barbara Fister, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN -- Library Journal, 4/22/2010
Read more: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6726981.html
imitation of research, the soulless but correct
transcription of properly-documented sources that so many college
assignments require--is about discovery, exploration, and persisting in
the pursuit of an answer that, once finally found, blossoms like a
magician's wand--hey presto!--into a bouquet of new questions.We need to help students rediscover their own creativity as they play at being scholars. And when I say "play," I don't mean that we should encourage them to mimic their professors and use lots of big words they don't understand, though they may well think that's what's expected. No, we need to help them understand that research is all about the interplay of ideas, the freedom of movement among disciplines and spheres of discourse, the courage to ask a question without first knowing whether it has an answer."
from "Why we should take fun more seriously" by Barbara Fister, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN -- Library Journal, 4/22/2010
Read more: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6726981.html
Archives are some of my favorite playgrounds! You have to ask questions to move forward through the material. Plus you learn that "I don't know" or "it depends" are perfectly fine answers, (as long as you have a follow up question).