Brucker Bears 4-5: heuristic

Monday, August 11, 2014

heuristic

(adj.) A heuristic learning experience is one that allows you question, search, and discover until you learn.

(n.) - A heuristic is a framework or experience that helps someone to learn and discover things for himself.

Synonyms: examining, probing, questioning, searching, inquiring, investigative

Examples: inquiry project, science experiment

Antonyms: uninterested, skeptical

Non-examples: lecture, "take my word for it"

Etymology: 1821, from Greek heuretikos, meaning "serving to discover or find out," or "inventive." This word is related to heuriskein meaning "to find" (from PIE were- meaning "to find;" related to Old Irish fuar meaning "I have found") + the noun-forming suffix -ist and the adjective-forming suffix -ic. This word was first recorded as a noun in 1860.

Heuristic education is based on discovering and experiencing things for yourself.

How can using a heuristic approach to learning make you a better learner?

1 comment:

AnonymousAugust 11, 2014 at 2:04 PM
Ann says:

A heuristic approach to learning is one that allows you to explore, ask questions, be wrong, and start all over again until you learn something.
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