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Discovery Learning is the learning style which happens in the flow of life in a natural
way,like how a child learns facts about life .If traditional learning way is watching a
movie, discovery learning is being a part of a movie and learn the facts by
living,experiencing.Learning is process-based rather than fact-based
Traditional learning is more like watching the movie.
What is the most important thing you discovered about discovery learning?
To me the most important thing about discovery learning is that Failure is a needed factor
for learning.As A teacher I noticed one more time the importance of giving freedom to
students to make mistakes.One of my colleagues technic was making on purpose
mistakes on board with students.
Another conclusion that I came is that even lecturing model can be modified in terms of
discovery learning.Instead of giving the knowledge directly we can do our lecturing with
questions and let students think and discover by themselves.
How can you apply this method to your future classroom?
I personally was not giving the information directly I ask short questions which let
students to think and come many of the conclusions by themselves.What I observed for
years is that when students are getting used to that it is becaming a habit for them.
Surprisingly when I try sometimes give direct formulas sometimes,they mostly dont
accept it and questioning it.I will try to improve myself to give more time and freedom to
students to make mistakes, and more discussing .I
References:
(1) Sanja Maricica;7th - 9th November 2014;The 6th International Conference Edu
World 2014 Education Facing Contemporary World Issues
(2) Dennis Bartels; Scientific American, March 1;2013
(3) Iona Marcut; Critical thinking - applied to the methodology of teaching
mathematics; Educatia Matematica Vol. 1, Nr. 1 (2005), 5766