Inductive Learning

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Learning by Discovery

• "an approach to instruction through which
  students interact with their environment-by
  exploring and manipulating objects, wrestling
  with questions and controversies, or performing
  experiments" (Ormrod, 1995, p. 442)

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Sandbox theory
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Sandbox theory

• Students learn through active discovery -
  experimentation,
• examination and analysis
• NOT
• direct instruction

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Jerome Bruner

• we should somehow give to children (students) a
  respect for their own powers of thinking, for
  their power to generate good questions, to come
  up with interesting informed guesses ...

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Examples

• Categorization Surveys
• Webquests Interviews
• Experiments Collecting
• Simulations Observation
• Applied Research

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Example

• Problem based learning
• Why can birds fly?
• Well designed questions are the key to good
  discovery

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Deduction - step by step
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How are they different?
Induction - ? Eureka!
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Whats the difference?
I know.
vs
I understand.
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Knowing

• RECALL
• RETAIN
• REPEAT

KCAASE Blooms Taxonomy
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Understanding

• Explain
• Review
• Discuss

KCAASE Blooms Taxonomy
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Learning As

• A process
• A self empowering process
• An active process (Dewey)
• A self-monitoring process
• A deep process (Piaget)

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Prerequisites
Prior knowledge
Process
collaboration
Publication
Guidance
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Prior knowledge

• Students need some prior
• knowledge so they can
• discover.
• - See Vygotsky.
• on the shoulders of giants

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Process

• Students need structure.
• Provide students with organizers and steps to
  enable discovery

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collaboration

• Discovery is a collaborative
• process. Students need to practice working in
  groups and be comfortable with it.

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Guidance

• The teacher leads the students with appropriate
  
• suggestions and tasks. Subtle
• persuasion!

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Publication

• All students should actively
• present findings and share their discovery.
  Consolidate!

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