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Curiosity is Key: Cultivating a Desire to Know Jesse Schlabach // [email protected] ACS Atelierista // Mini NESA // November 13, 2015 “It’s like when you don’t know something.” ACS 5 year old “Curiosity is the lust of the mind.” Thomas Hobbes “Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.” Leo Burnett - Linked to creativity/innovation - Science/Entertainment/Advertising - Medicinal implications - Few studies (soft data-self reported or observational) - Vice or Virtue - Until 20th century, it was considered a feminine attribute “Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.” Victor Hugo Do you consider curiosity more of a vice or a virtue? “The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.” Edmund Burke - Primal/Intellectual (drove my curiosity) - State versus trait (derived from environment or genes) Where do you fall on the state versus trait spectrum? Is there one quadrant you find yourself in more than the others? - Oct. 2014, Neuron journal / UC Davis Caudate nucleus/highly responsive to dopamine Hippocampus Amygdala “Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.” James Stephens - Inverted U/Yerkes-Dodson law 1908 (arousal/performance) - Too little/disinterest; too much/anxiety “You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity…” Sir Ken Robinson - Gap exposure “It’s like when you don’t know something.” Novelty Complexity (IB/Reggio) Uncertainty Conflict Why are we as teachers reluctant to expose students to ambiguity and conflict? Atelierista: How many different greens do you think we can make? - 2 a dark one and a light 15 13 20 Atelierista: Is this color still green? - Yes - No, now it’s more blue - No, no it’s blue-green Atelierista: Has anyone changed their mind? How many different greens do you think we could make? - Ten hundred! - I don’t know! Sara: I found something cool! I made a ball, but look, when I drop it, it sticks! It doesn’t bounce! Atelierista: Why? Sara: I don’t know yet. Atelierista: What balls do you know that bounce? Sara: On the playground. Atelierista: What’s on the inside of those balls? Clay? Sara: No. (3 minutes of silence) Air! - The sun is going down. - The sky is almost like a pool. - The sun is almost down in the jungle. Atelierista: Is our sun always on the side of the sky in the corner when we see it? - No. It moves. So does the moon. (They move the paper sun from the corner to the center of the work.) - Eye movement as measuring tool - Curiosity gene - Developmental robotics (AI) Computer Science 1. We remember when we’re curious. 2. Violations of predictions and ambiguity are powerful learning opportunities. (Embrace the gray!) 3. CURIOSITY IS STRONGER THAN FEAR! “Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit.” Graham Swift
