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shared by Meghan Cureton on 07 Apr 17 - No Cached

the role of education is to help our children become who they are meant to be instead of  working towards an average which testing promotes.
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We take this narrowed, biased model of success and try to replicate it in schools; yet these models further reduce diversity of thought, experience and creativity among our students.
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If we are to support our children to become creative problem-solvers, then we need to move away from pursuing averages that are based on a single prescribed profile for all learners.
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By creating norms and averages we are drawn to comparison and rank–rather than to our children’s curiosities about what they want to learn, become or aspire to be.
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If praise is tied to the child’s perception of success, and success is tied to narrow definitions of achievement, then children work towards that common standard against which Zhao cautioned us. If they are less likely to take risks then they will seek a single right answer rather than embrace both creativity and curiosity. The standardized test will always be the measure of success.
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shared by Bo Adams on 30 Nov 17 - No Cached

when kids are curious, they’re much more likely to stay engaged.
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‘Curiosity really is one of the very intense and very basic impulses in humans. We should base education on this behavior.’
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brain’s chemistry changes when we become curious, helping us better learn and retain information.
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“But even people with really good memory will remember only a small fraction of what happened two days ago.”
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When the participants’ curiosity was piqued, the parts of their brains that regulate pleasure and reward lit up. Curious minds also showed increased activity in the hippocampus, which is involved in the creation of memories.
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curious brains are better at learning not only about the subject at hand, but also other stuff — even incidental, boring information.
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She says her students love exploring the mysterious unknowns in science: What happens when a car crashes? Why does one car get more beat up than the other? Why do some people look more like their aunt than their mom? How do rainbows work?
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