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Stage 5: The Learning Process133 Concepts
Developing concepts from ideas is the next stage of the Learning Process. The process of an idea becoming a concept needs to be made explicit to learners.
The Intellectual Recipe for Creating Concepts
1. The prompt creates the curiosity in the learner, and the learner’s curiosity drives them to ask questions to build new knowledge.
2. Once the learner has some knowledge, they can make sense of the knowledge by interrogating that knowledge with additional questions.
3. Interrogation of knowledge generates new ideas via our questioning and our desire to find patterns across what can first appear as, disparate pieces of knowledge.
4. The learner creates an idea in a specific context. For example, “I think London is the capital of England because the Queen and other famous people live there.”
5. The learner then starts extending that idea to other contexts. The learner generalises and asks, for example, “Who, or what, decides where the capital will be for any country?” or “Are there some other reasons for the choice of a capital city?”
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Resource 49: Jason DaSilva: To Understand is to Perceive Patterns134
In the video above Jason DaSilva describes how we are programmed to see, recognise and map patterns. We achieve this by developing the idea into a concept by investigating other contexts (other countries’ capitals), to see if a pattern exists across all contexts. This process usually results in us refining and modifying our initial concept. Our brain craves patterns in almost everything we do.
133 The chapter 17 summary video can be found here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNaaUmaxdmg if you are reading the book, otherwise click on the video icon at the top of the page
134 da Silva J. (December 24, 2011) To understand is to perceive. Retrieved from https://vimeo.com/34182381