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Learning by Discovery "an approach to instruction
through which students interact with their environment-by exploring and manipulating objects, wrestling with questions and controversies, or performing experiments" (Ormrod, 1995, p. 442)
Sandbox theory
Sandbox theoryStudents learn through
active discovery - experimentation,
examination and analysis NOT
direct instruction
Jerome Bruner we should somehow give to children (students) a respect for their own powers of thinking, for their power to generate good questions, to come up with interesting informed guesses ...
ExamplesCategorization SurveysWebquests InterviewsExperiments CollectingSimulations Observation
Applied Research
Example Problem based learning “Why can birds fly?”
Well designed questions are the key to good “discovery”
How are they different?
What’s the difference?
KnowingRECALL
RETAIN
REPEATKCAASE – Bloom’s Taxonomy
UnderstandingExplain
Review
DiscussKCAASE – Bloom’s Taxonomy
Learning As……A processA self – empowering process
An active process (Dewey)A self-monitoring processA deep process (Piaget)
Prerequisites
Students need some priorknowledge so they can “discover”. - See Vygotsky.“on the shoulders of giants”
Students need structure.
Provide students with organizers and steps to enable “discovery”
Discovery is a collaborative
process. Students need to practice working in
groups and be comfortable with it.
The teacher “leads” the students with appropriate
suggestions and tasks. Subtle
persuasion!
All students should actively present findings and share their discovery. Consolidate!
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