Don’t show, don’t tell?
Emily Finn,
MIT News,
Jul 04, 2011
Sure, you can get facts into people's head quite quickly using direct instruction. But if you want them to learn - and keep on learning - you have to try something else. So shows this MIT study, at least. "Explicit instruction makes children less likely to engage in spontaneous exploration and discovery... The danger is leading children to believe that they’ve learned all there is to know, thereby discouraging independent discovery. 'If I teach you this one thing and then I stop, then you may say, ‘Well that’s probably all there is,’' Schulz says." This link is particularly relevant given the recent argument between David Wiley and myself (and Wiley's reply).
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