The use of curiosity within education

 I found an interesting article/journal regarding the use of curiosity to enhance learning which is pretty much exactly what I'm looking to explore:







So, this of course isn't to do with how materiality can be used to engage the nature of curiosity, which is more of the direction I will be taking it BUT, there are some really interesting thoughts and concepts here. I had never heard of the information gap before but it makes a lot of sense in terms of having some but not all knowledge and wanting to 'fill the gap', however that might be done. This is definitely something I could experiment with, whether that be in the format of a puzzle or poster with a QR code. 

Much like with a quiz, as is similarly mentioned, the fun is using your pre-existing knowledge and finding out if you know the answer or not - giving 'feedback' on knowledge gaps and wanting to be superior in knowledge within a subject that you are interested in. 
The way I see it is, I need to make the subject I cover (probably environmentalism) visually interesting to elicit initial engagement, followed by implementing the 'information gap' to keep the interest.

Link to my current thoughts - "we must catch their interest in some way, or present them with a challenge they feel motivated to meet" my mini scavenger hunt idea works really well here, especially if I make it visually stimulating/intriguing. Combine this with the notion of different levels of 'difficulty' in the shape of different mini scavenger hunts featuring more complex Information as they go along. Using the same concept as a puzzle, with 'easy', 'medium', 'hard' and 'expert'.

Small but effective snippets of information that are easy to take in but add up to communicate/educate in a non-intimidating manner - this is the goal here and something that I personally find useful as an individual with dyslexia.










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