Food for Thought different style of sharing

This article is from Stanford Education Department and is about students doing hands on activities before reading and videos on a topic. It challenges the idea of the flipped classroom and encourages more inquiry.

"We are showing that exploration, inquiry and problem solving are not just 'nice to have' things in classrooms," said Blikstein. "They are powerful learning mechanisms that increase performance by every measure we have."  Pea explained that these results indicate the value for learning of first engaging one's prior knowledge and intuitions in investigating problems in a learning domain – before being presented with abstracted knowledge. Having first explored how one believes a system works creates a knowledge-building relevance to the text or video that is then presented, he said.”

What I like about this article is that it challenges Hattie’s mega data research which implies a low learning effect for inquiry if the students haven’t been given direct instruction ahead of the inquiry activity.