I recently started listening to the ‘60 second science’ podcast, put out by Scientific American.
A little something from Monday’s podcast that might be of interest – it’s about teaching methods.
An interesting little podcast…
February 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Instructional Design
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kgray
// Mar 6, 2007 at 2:19 am
I thought this was a neat little message. Here’s some more about the same approach, with details of the brain research that underlies the idea of freedom to learn:
Anton Lawson (2006) Points of View: On the Implications of Neuroscience Research for Science Teaching and Learning: Are There Any? CBE Life Sci Educ 5(2): 111-117. Online at http://www.lifescied.org/cgi/content/full/5/2/111
An excerpt: “The key point in terms of instruction is that for meaningful and lasting learning to occur, students must personally and repeatedly engage in the generation and test of their own self-generated ideas. This means that laboratory and field-based activities become the main instructional vehicles. But such activities cannot be “cookbook” in nature. Instead, they should allow students the freedom to openly inquire and raise puzzling observations.”
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