Kids are learning machines…but how do they do it?Cognitive scientist Elizabeth Bonawitz is helping us understand how children learn to learn and what role curiosity has to play in those processes.
From dinner table placemats to trading stickers for science facts, she finds creative ways to get at the heart of this most human of mechanisms.
“I think about curiosity as a sort of ‘mise en place’ for learning. It gets the mind ready and set up — so that when that information comes in, it’s ready to learn from it and encode it most effectively.” ~ Elizabeth Bonawitz