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>Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:46:14 -0500
>From: "Mike Palij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re:[tips] Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based,
>Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching?
>
>In the situation Annette desc
In the situation Annette describes below, it might be easy to
predict what students might do if we remember what sorts
of cognitive biases and heuristics people ordinarily rely upon.
These would include: (see the topic "cognitive biases" on
Wikipedia for a much longer list as a starting poin
Does any other industrialized country have this ongoing debate between
direction instruction versus inquiry learning? I believe not. Might that
not possibly give us some insight into why our students perform below par
on achievement tests in almost every area when compared to other
countries?
In
I think there is also an issue of each of these methods of instruction in terms
of different disciplines. In psychological science "direct inquiry" can lead
people hopelessly astray, especially if they begin with incorrect constructions
on which to base their future decision making.
As we all
