{"id":2149,"date":"2012-05-01T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:56:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:56:55","slug":"anne-murphy-paul-why-floundering-makes-learning-better-time-ideas-time-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/05\/01\/anne-murphy-paul-why-floundering-makes-learning-better-time-ideas-time-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Murphy Paul: Why Floundering Makes Learning Better | TIME Ideas | TIME.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ideas.time.com\/2012\/04\/25\/why-floundering-is-good\/?iid=op-main-lede\"><img src='http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/a108006197.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ideas.time.com\/2012\/04\/25\/why-floundering-is-good\/?iid=op-main-lede\">Anne Murphy Paul: Why Floundering Makes Learning Better | TIME Ideas | TIME.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With one group of students, the teacher provided strong \u201cscaffolding\u201d \u2014 instructional support \u2014 and feedback. With the teacher\u2019s help, these pupils were able to find the answers to their set of problems. Meanwhile, a second group was directed to solve the same problems by collaborating with one another, absent any prompts from their instructor. These students weren\u2019t able to complete the problems correctly. But in the course of trying to do so, they generated a lot of ideas about the nature of the problems and about what potential solutions would look like. And when the two groups were tested on what they\u2019d learned, the second group \u201csignificantly outperformed\u201d the first.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Too often we race in to &#8220;help&#8221; when people are struggling. We give them answers when often all they need is a little guidance. This is especially true in formal education &#8211; often to an extreme degree with very young children. The desire to help them avoid frustration is perfectly natural, but <strong><em>it is how we learn<\/em><\/strong>. If we prevent this kind of learning by racing in to help to quickly (by, for example, providing too much &#8220;scaffolding&#8221;) the learning doesn&#8217;t stick, and, ultimately, the learners stop trying.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-2149'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(2149);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(2149);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(2149);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&nbsp; Anne Murphy Paul: Why Floundering Makes Learning Better | TIME Ideas | TIME.com. Interesting: With one group of students, the teacher provided strong \u201cscaffolding\u201d \u2014 instructional support \u2014 and feedback. With the teacher\u2019s help, these pupils were able to &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/05\/01\/anne-murphy-paul-why-floundering-makes-learning-better-time-ideas-time-com\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,14,24],"tags":[41,393],"class_list":["post-2149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology","category-general","category-teaching-learning","tag-education","tag-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-yF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5781,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/09\/27\/worth-sharing-rex-murphy-institutes-of-lower-education-national-post\/","url_meta":{"origin":2149,"position":0},"title":"Worth Sharing: Rex Murphy: Institutes of lower education | National Post","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"September 27, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Some universities \u2014 and, in particularly, some humanities departments \u2014 have, over the last few decades, wandered far from the primary purpose of what these institutions were designed for: to teach what is worth knowing; to train the intellect; to acquaint students with, and help them appreciate, the glories of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1956,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/01\/18\/note-to-faculty-dont-be-such-a-know-it-all-teaching-the-chronicle-of-higher-education\/","url_meta":{"origin":2149,"position":1},"title":"Note to Faculty: Don&#8217;t Be Such a Know-It-All &#8211; Teaching &#8211; The Chronicle of Higher Education","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"January 18, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Note to Faculty: Don't Be Such a Know-It-All - Teaching - The Chronicle of Higher Education. 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