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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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