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Good writer; well stated!
This is an inaccurate description of "discovery learning". The short version of "discovery learning" is that you teach children how to find the information. Jesus had a saying about this method, "If you give a man a fish he eats for a day. If you teach a man to fish he eats for a lifetime." If you were to have a class using "discovery learning" on the Battle of Lexington you might send the students to the library to look up material on the subject. You might assign questions to individual students about different aspects of the battle and then force each of them to actually do some reading. It is a method which has been used in teaching since at least the time of the ancient Greeks and it is the only way that any new information is discovered. How do you suppose people complete PhDs?Chuck Muth (by way of GoingNova) said:The student-centered "discovery learning" method would include something like turning the school desks on their sides and having kids throw balled-up paper at each another from behind their "bunkers" to "feel" what it was like to be in a Revolutionary War-era fight. They then sit around in a circle and share with each other how they "felt" while in combat.
bob_gray said:If you were to have a class using "discovery learning" on the Battle of Lexington you might send the students to the library to look up material on the subject. You might assign questions to individual students about different aspects of the battle and then force each of them to actually do some reading. It is a method which has been used in teaching since at least the time of the ancient Greeks and it is the only way that any new information is discovered. How do you suppose people complete PhDs?
I understand that many people like the traditional "teach at you" approach to learning and that is fine but sometimes you get more out of learning if you have to do a little work to find the information yourself, ie. "discovery learning". Also, there is nothing about "feelings" in the pedagogy.
painogb said:The biggest thing is that teachers don't realize that you may have covered the pilgrims 300 times by the time your in 12th grade so they think they need to really make sure everyone knows that and then they need to skip pieces to get caught up again. It's not that there is to much history it just that there needs to be a progression from grade to grade.
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