Inductive learning involves students interacting with their environment through exploration, experimentation, and questioning rather than direct instruction. Jerome Bruner believed students should develop their own thinking abilities through generating questions and making informed guesses. Examples of inductive learning include categorization, surveys, interviews, experiments, observations, simulations, and applied research. Inductive learning is different from deductive learning in that students use specific examples to derive general conclusions through discovery rather than step-by-step reasoning. For inductive learning to be effective, students need some prior knowledge, structure through organizers and steps, opportunities for collaboration, and guidance from teachers to lead them through the discovery process and consolidate their findings.

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3. Sandbox theory

8. Deduction - step by step

9. How are they different? Induction - ? = Eureka!

10. What’s the difference? I know. I understand. vs

14. Prerequisites Prior knowledge collaboration Process Guidance Publication

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