Summary
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Teachers will find: Detailed explanations & graphics of the Learning Pit & the Learning Challenge Several lesson plan ideas across grade levels and subject areas Practical strategies for guiding students through each stage of the Learning Challenge Classroom activities Examples from Learning Challenges across the world
Introduction to the Learning Challenge
Introduction to the Learning Challenge
“All which the school can or need do for pupils, so far as their minds are concerned … is to develop their ability to think.”
(Dewey, 1916)
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The most important points in this chapter include:
- The Learning Challenge encourages learners to investigate contradictions and uncertainties so that they might more deeply understand what it is they are thinking about.
- The Learning Challenge is a frame of reference for students to talk and think more accurately and extensively about their own learning.
- At the heart of the Learning Challenge is the pit. Someone is said to be in the pit when they have a set of unresolved, contradictory ideas about something they ...
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