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You should consider a hybrid: tell him facts, but explain how you know that they are true. By engaging with him, you'll both train him to think critically and be able to assess what level of sophistication he can handle. Then you'll know the answer of when and to what extent to transition to experimentation and primary sources not for some average male ...
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Piaget's developmental stage theory, despite its wide-ranging impact on education, is highly questionable today in many respects. His research methods were erroneous, and there is plenty of evidence that his overly rigid stage concept is wrong. Milestones based on the theory are also questionable, and in any event general milestones cannot be used to ...
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According to Jean Piaget, most children do not reach the level of cognitive development that you are talking about until they're at least 11 years old or older, and from the classes I've taught I would tend to agree with Piaget. We also know that the frontal lobe of the brain, responsible for reasoning, planning, and judgement, isn't fully "connected" so to ...
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Abstract thinking requires practice. While Piaget's theories about child development are somewhat reliable for young children, the wheels tend to come off the Piaget bus when it comes to abstract thinking and when different people acquire abstract thinking skills. New research now tells us that the adult brain is not really fully developed until well into a ...
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Interesting question as I was just compiling/crowdsourcing a list of "must read books" for my soon-to-be 13yo that are ideal for exposing critical thinking.
The easy answer is "it depends"...and it really does. So many factors and even more conundrums and variances based on culture and exposure.
The hard (way to find your) answer is to test. We're big fans ...
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Sources- Talking Hands by M. Fox & an ASL class I took.
I see you are sold on the idea of raising a bilingual kid-- me too, baby just arrived last month, and we're doing Russian, English with ASL. Since I live up the road from Gallaudet, I thought might as well learn real ASL and not baby ASL. Baby ASL is anywhere from 20-50 signs that are used just ...
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You can encourage curiosity - for most of the early formative years you are your children's best role model, so they will take on habits from you.
If you are curious about everything and include them in your excitement and enthusiasm, they can be encouraged to be curious too.
If you show cynicism about everything, then they may well end up pretty cynical.
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This article has some interesting insights to why humans are curious, but if by intellectual curiosity you mean academic curiosity, I think everyone has a bit of it in them; it's just a matter of allowing them to choose what they want to discover.
For example, for someone who wants to program video games, physics (and in turn calculus), art, and sometimes ...
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