1. Teaching is an interactive performance that can evoke curiosity in students by exposing gaps, teasing without spoiling answers, and taking time to build frustration and boredom. 2. Curiosity is a powerful hook that can engage students if used responsibly by planting mysteries and exposing gaps to scratch an itch without satisfying it immediately. 3. Building curiosity is preferable to surprise and takes time but can be an effective way to engage students in learning.

1. Scratch that itch
- getting them curious

2. Teaching is a
performance.

3. Much of
teaching is an
interactive
performance.
Teaching is a
performance.

4. Surprise vs curiositySurprise versus Curiosity

5. "In other words, we're back
to our usual alternatives:
Do we want suspense or
surprise?"
Alfred Hitchcock

6. mystery evokes curiosity

7. Curiosity is the itch we
can’t help scratching

8. Egor Kraft. Photo – Gregor Karstens.

9. Egor Kraft. Photo – Gregor Karstens.
1. expose or plant gaps

10. “How dull a detective story would be if the
writer told you who did it in the first
chapter and then gave you the clues.”
Lawrence Bragg
2. tease, don’t spoil

11. “make them care first,
then make them wait”
3. Curiosity takes time.

12. frustration
boredom
amount of
stalling
time period
4. Curiosity is a powerful hook.
Hook responsibly.

14. “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the
mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
Albert Einstein

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