Remove Cognitive Development Remove Knowledge Remove Laboratory
article thumbnail

Graduate Students Want to Solve ‘Wicked Problems.’ Are Universities Delivering?

Edsurge

Over the past two years, the College Impact Laboratory at The Ohio State University has surveyed incoming Ph.D. Another student expressed that interdisciplinary work “changed my thinking pattern … to a multi-field view” that helped them synthesize between bodies of knowledge and see other facets of the problems they worked on.

article thumbnail

A Glimpse Into the Playful World of Seymour Papert

Edsurge

He believed children’s cognitive development and scientific thinking grew through stages of self-constructed knowledge structures—and that they need to actively work through exploratory activities that allow them to discover and construct their own world. “The Seymour’s genius goes far beyond the academic. Learning Stories.

Knowledge 128