Wonderful experiments, and it's great to see success on poking in the right spaces to get them to the point of the experiments, to provoke them enough so that they engaged, working through and not just consuming whatever was fed to them, looking to someone in authority without question.
Experiment 4: You didn't know the answer? Hmm...I guess teachers don't or can't know everything. I'm glad you were able to decipher something by looking at the manuals.
This reminds me of my first full-time job, which included computer programming. I had no idea how to do the project. It was using some language I had never heard of. I can't even remember what it was now. I perused the help file that showed the programming language and was able to figure out how to do it. It took some going back and forth looking at how the code was manipulated but eventually I got it and produced the code that I needed for the project.
Terry, these experiments are terrific - it's really great to have set up situations to provoke questions right back at you, and discussions between groups who've been given opposing information to chew over - this is teaching on absolute steroids! Learned a tonne with this post - thank you.
Wonderful experiments, and it's great to see success on poking in the right spaces to get them to the point of the experiments, to provoke them enough so that they engaged, working through and not just consuming whatever was fed to them, looking to someone in authority without question.
Exactly, Edward. Thanks very much
Experiment 4: You didn't know the answer? Hmm...I guess teachers don't or can't know everything. I'm glad you were able to decipher something by looking at the manuals.
This reminds me of my first full-time job, which included computer programming. I had no idea how to do the project. It was using some language I had never heard of. I can't even remember what it was now. I perused the help file that showed the programming language and was able to figure out how to do it. It took some going back and forth looking at how the code was manipulated but eventually I got it and produced the code that I needed for the project.
I had some ideas, but we needed to do a bit of research and trial and error. But if have given the same rsponse.even if I DID know the answer!
Terry, these experiments are terrific - it's really great to have set up situations to provoke questions right back at you, and discussions between groups who've been given opposing information to chew over - this is teaching on absolute steroids! Learned a tonne with this post - thank you.
Oh thanks, Rebecca 🤓