首页
登录
职称英语
More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwa
More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwa
游客
2024-03-06
39
管理
问题
More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation but a quality they called "preparation for future learning. " The researchers asked fifth graders and college students to create a recovery plan to protect bald eagles from extinction. Shockingly, the two groups came up with plans of similar quality (although the college students had better spelling skills). From the standpoint of a traditional educator, this outcome indicated that schooling had failed to help students think about ecosystems and extinction, major scientific ideas.
The researchers decided to go deeper, however. They asked both groups to generate questions about important issues needed to create recovery plans. On this task, they found large differences. College students focused on critical issues of interdependence between eagles and their habitats (栖息的). Fifth graders tended to focus on features of individual eagles (" How big are they?" and " What do they eat?"). The college students had cultivated the ability to ask questions, the cornerstone of critical thinking. They had learned how to learn.
Museums and other institutions of informal learning may be better suited to teach this skill than elementary and secondary schools. At the Exploratorium in San Francisco, we recently studied how learning to ask good questions can affect the quality of people’s scientific inquiry. We found that when we taught participants to ask "What if?" and "How can?" questions that nobody present would know the answer to and that would spark exploration, they engaged in better inquiry at the next exhibit—asking more questions, performing more experiments and making better interpretations of their results. Specifically, their questions became more comprehensive at the new exhibit. Rather than merely asking about something they wanted to try, they tended to include both cause and effect in their question. Asking juicy questions appears to be a transferable skill for deepening collaborative inquiry into the science content found in exhibits.
This type of learning is not confined to museums or institutional settings. Informal learning environments tolerate failure better than schools. Perhaps many teachers have too little time to allow students to form and pursue their own questions and too much ground to cover in the curriculum. But people must acquire this skill somewhere. Our society depends on them being able to make critical decisions about their own medical treatment, say, or what we must do about global energy needs and demands. For that, we have a robust informal learning system that gives no grades, takes all comers, and is available even on holidays and weekends. [br] What is said to be the advantage of informal learning?
选项
A、It allows failure.
B、It is entertaining.
C、It charges no tuition.
D、It meets practical needs.
答案
A
解析
由题干中的advantage和informal learning定位到文章第四段第二句。细节辨认题。定位句指出,与学校相比,非正式的学习环境对待失败更加宽容,也就是说,非正式的学习允许失败,故答案为A。
转载请注明原文地址:http://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3511822.html
相关试题推荐
[originaltext]W:TodaywehaveDanielLevitonwithustosharehisopinion
[originaltext]W:TodaywehaveDanielLevitonwithustosharehisopinion
A、scientistsandengineersB、humanistsandscientistsC、scientistsD、humanistsD
D根据economist和good-looking定位到D段。DanielHamermesh的数据提到,长相俊美的男性在整个职业生涯里要比长相最平庸的男性多赚
[originaltext]Moderator:DanielGolemanbroughtthenotionof"EI"to
[originaltext]Scientistswhostudytheearthtellusthatthecontinentsan
[originaltext]Scientistswhostudytheearthtellusthatthecontinentsan
[originaltext]Scientistswhostudytheearthtellusthatthecontinentsan
[originaltext]W:Iheardthatsomepeoplewhowerenotenvironmentalscientists
[originaltext]W:Iheardthatsomepeoplewhowerenotenvironmentalscientists
随机试题
[originaltext]Thecity’smuseumsaremuchmorethanculturalcenters.Theya
建筑的作用?
高等学校科学研究的特点是()。A.学科齐全 B.人才集中 C.教学与科研结
转继承发生于()中,代为继承发生在()中。A.法定继承,遗嘱继承 B.法定
水泥混凝土路面断板的产生的原因有( )。 A、混凝土板的切缝深度不够、不及时
不属于比较法估价的步骤是()。A.收集交易实例 B.查看交易成功的比例
对于固定资产重置引起的融资需求,除了借款公司自己提出明确的融资需求外,银行还可以
属于碳青霉烯类,临床上与肾肽酶抑制剂西司他丁钠合用的β-内酰胺抗生素药物是
立井井筒施工中,深部工作面有较大涌水时,处理方法应采用( ).A.井点降水
女,39岁。痛经进行性加重5年,月经量增多2年。妇科检查:子宫后位,球形增大,如
最新回复
(
0
)