Merlin Mann stated that employees’ motivation increases when they get to “build a robot” once in a while. That is, do something creative beyond regular work. Can we do this at school? Offices have “casual Fridays,” can we have “curiosity Fridays?”
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Experiment-Based Curiosity Project
How I’d build a curiosity project around an experiment rather than just research.
Curiosity 6: Recipes for Curiosity
As we wrap up our curiosity guide, I share three recipes to help you cook up curiosity in your classroom.
Curiosity 5: Curiosity Is Slow
We’ve been digging into curiosity, and now we come to curiosity’s big downside: it’s slow. Let’s look at how films take their time to establish an audience’s interest before revealing the real conflict.
Creating Cultures of Curiosity (Part 4)
The biggest factor in our students’ curiosity at school is us! Teachers can create (or kill) cultures of curiosity. We’ll look at four qualities and a couple experiments run by Susan Engel.
Curiosity 3: Curiosity Is Social
When we’re curious, we can enhance that curiosity by discussing it with others. Our mutual confusion takes us deeper into the experience.
Confusion Leads to Curiosity (Curiosity Part 2)
So how do we make kids curious? We’ll cover two aspects: creating information gaps and (yes) purposefully confusing our students.
How To Pique Curiosity
In part one of this curiosity series, we explore the connection between curiosity, anticipation, and dopamine and discover why we remember things better when we are allowed to wonder.
Delightful Math Data
I love collecting links to articles with fun math applications. Here are three of my recent favorites.
Puzzlement Tournament
Perfect to wrap up the year: a four-round puzzlement tournament.