Groff doesn’t dispute that mastery is important and that students need to learn age-appropriate content, but she also argues it’s equally important to develop students’ ability to go beyond that, to question and apply learning in new situations
1.Learners have to be at the center of what happens in the classroom
2. Learning is a social practice and can’t happen alone
Science is vital to human life. In fact, it is intensely woven into our daily decisions and routines. To put it frankly, "Science affects us all, every day of the year, from the moment we wake up, all day long, and through the night.
Malcolm Knowles is generally considered to be the originator of the term "informal learning" through his book published in 1970: Informal Adult Education: A Guide for Administrators, Leaders, and Teachers. Allen Tough was probably the first to really study how adults use informal learning.