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Fifht Session
How
can we use it in order to foster learning?
This research emerges after watching the Mitras experiment video during
the 31th of March seminar, in which some kids learn how to use a computer
without any kind of external help. This makes me reflect about the curiosity
as a didactical tool and how can I, as a future teacher, take some advantage
of it in my classrooms.
The first step is researching about if any expert talks about the topic.
Ramsey Musallam, in his speech in TED talks (2013) - Three rules to spark
learning - talks about curiosity as a booster of learning. He explains how
he manages to make their students be curious for learning. What is more,
he talks about how teachers must act regarding curiosity:
This is the first educator that talks about curiosity as a didactical tool in this
essay. There is also an study from University of California, directed by
Matthias Gruber, which researched about curiosity as an educational
resource in classrooms and extracted the following outcomes:
Firstly, when people had a lot of curiosity for knowing the answer to some
question, they acquire better the information than in other cases. According
to Gruber, Curiosity can put the brain in a state that allows you to learn
and retain any type of information, such as a whirlpool that sucks what do
you want to learn, and also all that is around.
All of these result have been focused on scientific reasonings, but they
actually place curiosity in the axis of the proper education. Once we all
agree on this affirmation, it is time to establish some relation with our
classroom contents. Is curiosity included in any research approach? We are
going to take into account the metaphor used in class to define the
interpretative research approach:
This make me think about the linkers between this approach and curiosity.
Personally, I believe that when curiosity motivates your learning process
need to get involved and integrated with your context. I think that
establishing relations with the contexts, strictly demands for curiosity.
- Changing the routine: even though habits are helpful for them, it
would be also interesting and enriching for them to introduce
something new or unexpected.