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Ep356 - Monica Parker | The Power of Wonder

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Wonder-Based Learning: How It Can Help Children Learn More

I feel like school should bring in the sense of wonder and cultivate it. It's just a natural function of how our brains learn that if we use wonder, then it embeds that information in our long-term memory more effectively. And even if we have to learn about something that we don't enjoy, but then sprinkle it with bits of wonder in between the stuff that we're really curious about,. Then we'll learn it's they call it a curiosity vortex. So basically it sucks in all other stuff we don't actually want to learn about, but just sort of comes along for the ride. I've used this technique with my stepson. We'll sprinkle it in with elements around

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