"Not all those who wonder are lost." Is a quote by J.R.R. Tolkien, and this quote emphasizes that questioning isn't a bad thing. Curiosity is an important factor in the development of a human mind. When someone is interested in a topic they do their research to further improve their knowledge on what they already know. But in the article "The case for curiosity" it states otherwise. Susan Engel the writer states that "Given that curiosity has such a positive impact on learning, you might assume that teachers are doing everything they can to encourage it. But that's not the case." The reason I bring this is up is because kids aren't interested in these redundant topics. In order for students to be curious they need to be creative. The lack of
Boredom was everywhere in my world, and if you asked the kids, as often as I did, why they felt so bored, they always gave me the same answers: They said the work was stupid, that it made no sense, that they already knew it. They said they wanted to be doing something real, not just sitting around. They said teachers didn’t seem to know much about their subjects and clearly weren’t interested in learning more. And the kids were right: their teachers were every bit as bored as they were
Once this becomes the norm for teachers they tend to become uninteresting, and students are the ones reaping the consequences. Rose acknowledged this cycle of learning apathy, writing, “But mostly the teachers had no idea of how to engage the imaginations of us kids who were scuttling along at the bottom of the pond”(1989, p.2).
Every child is a curious child who seeks answers to satisfy their curiosity. James curiosity made him ask his mother questions that she never really answered. For example, “I began to notice something about my mother, that she looked nothing like the other kids’ mothers” (McBride 12). Here James noticed
Teachers need to be allowed to teach the students how they want so the lesson plan is more fun and exciting. Boredom is just an emotion and teachers shouldn’t have to feel that because of them, they are affecting the state of mind of students.. Teachers should able to engage the students with their own thought process. Teachers need freedom and should not have to worry about how fast they teach a subject because the government wants it done in a specific way at a specific time. Teachers understand that students all learn differently and many teachers want to help all of their students, but they are stuck in a school system that tells them how they must teach.
Throughout the years many people have put their feelings about the United States Justice system into poems or songs. We have heard various artist refer to the system as being very corrupt and about public officials abusing their power. In 2002, Lauryn Hill released the MTV Unplugged 2.0 album. On this album, there were twenty-one songs. One of the songs was called “The Mystery of Iniquity”. This song featured many verses that reflect the corruption in the American legal system. This song also reveals many significant facts about America’s justice system. Finally, in this song she instructs people to wake up and realize that everything the government tells us is not the truth. Lauryn Hill has never been shy when expressing her beliefs in her songs. Lauryn Hill was first with the Fugees when America first heard her unique voice. As a singer and rapper, she has always been very
Humans are naturally curious, but in Frankenstein that curiosity leads to unfortunate events happening. These events show that unchecked curiosity leads to tragedy and troublemaking. Everything terrible that happened to Victor was due too his curiosity. He was curious about creating life, the monster's threat; the monster was curious about humanity.
Doing that involves an increasing mastery of skills, knowledge, and ideas." (Robinson, p. 119) The mentioned idea can be used to motivate students to participate in the learning process. The same way young children learn playing with others, the older child can do it experimenting and prove their theories. As a teacher is easy to noticed the difference between a lesson that is pure theory, and the lesson that incorporates creative factors. Students present a better behavior during the lesson, participate, interact, formulate questions and get the answers working together without
“While we’re all born with the ability to ask questions, our ability to do so is unequally distributed.”(91) A direct quote from Ian Leslie book Curious, Leslie focuses on the ability we have to ask questions and the power that asking question hold in our development of knowledge. As one matures into an adult, the rate of which we ask questions tends to dissipate compared to that of a child.
But I think in some classes, it has gotten worse. I think part of the problem might be teachers losing their passion for teaching. I may be wrong, but it seems that some teachers get the material they are supposed to teach, put it up on a PowerPoint for us to take notes, and then expect us to regurgitate it on a test. They do things like this instead of fun activities that really make us think and discover new things in our minds. Although this is just an assumption, this article really did make me think. I found that interesting because we are in the critical thinking unit and it is exactly what we are meant to do. We’re meant to think about things, analyze things, synthesize things, and then think about it all over again until we finally come to our own conclusion. I think that was the main point of Harris’s article. We discover our true feelings and knowledge when we search for them inside of our minds, and then we create something with our own unique ideas. Sydney J. Harris did a wonderful job on this article and I thoroughly enjoyed reading and then going into my own mind and writing about
In this artifact, Inquiry-Based Learning this teaching method on student investigation and hand on learning. While using this method, the teacher serves as the facilitator who know, understands, and uses a wide array of developmentally appropriate approaches, instructional strategies, and tools to connect with children and families and positively influence each child’s development and learning. Instead of presenting the information with facts, or answering the question. She asks questions, pose problems, or scenario in which children think, explore, and investigate to come to an answer or solution. The teacher guides and support children always, but she doesn’t do the work for them. The purpose of this approach is to increase intellectual engagement
Posing questions on materials covered and the quality of materials selected can create the desired environment for students to thrive. I want to inspire my students to think outside the box and to ask questions. Society needs thinkers not robots. The classroom plays an important part in aiding the growth of an individual. It is my duty as a teacher to impart knowledge because ideas have a way of changing lives. Examining and discussing ideas with students allows them to move to a new level of understanding, so that ultimately, they may be transformed.
Aliens. Extraterrestrial life. Humans have always had an interest in extraterrestrial intelligence. The speculation of extraterrestrial intelligence is popular these days both in mass culture and in science but belief in extraterrestrial intelligence goes back into ancient times. Extraterrestrial life is defined as life that does not originate from Earth. With the fascination of aliens among human, many became theorist. They believe that extraterrestrials with superior knowledge of science and engineering landed on Earth thousands of years ago sharing their expertise with early civilizations which forever changed the course of human history (Ancient Aliens). An example of this is Stone-hedge. How exactly did human place these heavy giant rocks on top of each other without any heavy machinery or tools. The only explanations one can come up with is with the help of extraterrestrials. So because of this, people have always tried to get in contact with extraterrestrial beings since the day of man.
I don’t think that is the case and it is something we gain during our childhood and when growing up. It part of the learning experience. If this is something we can teach our kids, then why aren’t the already implementing it in our school systems and helping to fix this problem we have. We need to start with changing how we are teaching our younger children. This is the age group that it needs to be taught and they need to be encouraged to use it. The other point that raised a question when I read the article is where they mentioned most middle schoolers stop asking due to boredom. I would like to argue that this could be due to all the changes they have going on in their life during this time, not because they are bored. It could also be because of parents showing a lack of interest in their children since they are getting older and want them to grow up/ learn on their own, so they aren’t as willing to ask these questions to
If the contemporary education methodology itself is killing the curiosity , then what can survive it any more?
I think all students yearn to learn. We as future teachers need to motivate students with learning, exploring, investigating, discovering and inquiring. Together you will be learning and teaching.