We can create moments of wonder by allowing for meaningful confusion in science classrooms.
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- Jun 2016
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Although students should pursue their own areas of passion and purpose, sometimes they need to be noticed in order to take that first big step toward original work.
I don't do enough of this ... I know that and keep making progress and then the year ends (like now) and I think, I could have done more of that. Dang it.
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they follow the rules in order to get the grade and move on
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He asks too many questions. He daydreams. He makes things. But the truth is, my son isn’t unusual. He isn’t an outlier. See, every kid is weird. Every child starts out as an original thinker, but somehow along the way, so many of them learn to be compliant. They stop making. They stop dreaming. They stop asking hard questions.
This seems to happen, in my experience, around fourth grade, for whatever reason. I get them in sixth grade and we spend the year trying to show them how to be creative again.
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He sees the world differently.
That's worth celebrating in our corners of the world ... but I know that's not always true in all corners of the world.
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