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Sara Wilkie

Teacher's Most Powerful Tool: Piquing Students' Curiosity | MindShift - 0 views

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  • Sara Wilkie on 11 Jun 13
     
    "n his classroom, Musallam follows three rules: curiosity comes first, embrace the mess, and reflect and revise. "
Sara Wilkie

SmartBlog on Education - Revising the questions that shape learning - SmartBrief, Inc. ... - 3 views

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questions Learning

shared by Sara Wilkie on 31 May 13 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 31 May 13
     
    Developing good questions is what it is all about! I really like Einstein's quote! I think I have a tendency to focus too much on answers. Going to work on this!
  • Sara Wilkie on 11 Jun 13
     
    "How much time do we spend developing powerful questions - in our classrooms, schools or policy-making bodies? What message about the value of curiosity and questioning do we send students, teachers and education leaders in our "there's a right answer and a wrong answer, and students better get the right answer or someone's getting fired" approach to education reforms? Are we bypassing an opportunity to ask and wrestle with the questions that might lead to sustained transformation in exchange for more statistical data?"
Sara Wilkie

What's Your Best Guess? Predicting Answers Leads to Deeper Learning | MindShift - 1 views

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shared by Sara Wilkie on 04 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Making predictions, Kasmer and Kim explain, helps prime the learning process in several ways. In the act of venturing a guess, we discover what we know and don’t yet know about the subject. We activate our prior knowledge on the topic, readying ourselves to make connections to new knowledge. We create a hypothesis that can then be tested, generating curiosity and motivation to find out the answer. Most of all, making predictions leads us to think deeply, to “explore the ‘why’ that underlies challenging problems,”
  • Sara Wilkie on 04 Oct 12
     
    "Students who view mathematics as only memorizing facts and procedures are often unsure of when or how to apply what they have learned. "
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