This document discusses the importance of curiosity in learning. It provides quotes from interviews and scholarly books that define curiosity as an essential part of how humans learn. Curiosity is described as the "wick in the candle of learning" and as a complex biological and intellectual phenomenon. The document encourages getting learners curious by seeing reflections of themselves, intentionally bringing failure into the learning process, and doing meaningful work.

1. IGNITING OUR
COLLECTIVE
IMAGINATION
BONNI STACHOWIAK
KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY

3. 2014
JUNE

4. EPISODES DOWNLOADS GUESTS COUNTRIES
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8. A WARNING

12. I'VE NEVER GIVEN UP
BEING ASTONISHED
AT LIFE.
Sandra Cisneros, being interviewed on the On Being podcast

13. GET
curious
OPEN
it up
COME
together

14. GET
curious

15. IN ORDER TO LEARN
SOMETHING, WE MUST
FIRST WONDER ABOUT IT.
Joshua Eyler, How Humans Learn

16. IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE
WAY HUMAN BEINGS LEARN,
AND IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN
CURIOSITY
Joshua Eyler, How Humans Learn

19. WHEN YOU BURN
TO KNOW WHAT
COMES NEXT, YOU
ARE FEELING
CURIOUS.
Sarah Rose Cavanagh, The Spark of Learning

20. ...THE WICK IN THE
CANDLE OF LEARNING
William Arthur Ward

21. AS A BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE, OR EVEN
AS AN INTELLECTUAL CONSTRUCT,
CURIOSITY IS SO COMPLEX AND
NUANCED THAT THE ONLY THING
SCHOLARS CAN AGREE ON IS ITS
Joshua Eyler, How Humans Learn
IMPORTANCE

22. WHAT IS ONE APPROACH
THAT HAS BEEN
PARTICULARLY EFFECTIVE
FOR YOU IN GETTING
LEARNERS CURIOUS ?

24. VS

25. VS

26. OPEN
it up

29. BY SEEING MY REFLECTION IN THIS
YOUNG AFRICAN AMERICAN LADY ON
TELEVISION DOING SCIENCE, IT GAVE
ME PERMISSION TO SAY 'MAYBE I
SHOULD BE DOING THIS THING CALLED
SCIENCEAinissa Ramirez on Teaching in Higher Ed Episode 66

30. IDENTITY

37. WHAT IS ONE ASPECT OF THE
SLEEPER THAT REALLY
RESONATED WITH YOU
?

38. COME
together

40. HOW HAVE YOU
INTENTIONALLY BROUGHT
FAILURE INTO THE
LEARNING PROCESS
?

45. EVERYBODY HAS THIS HIDDEN
DESIRE TO WANT TO DO
SOMETHING MEANINGFUL IN THE
WORLD
Karina Garbesi on Teaching in Higher Ed Episode 246

46. GET
curious
OPEN
it up
COME
together