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PUTTING “LEARNING BY REFRACTION” INTO PRACTICE: VENTURES IN IPP ENRICHMENT
By Russell Fiorella, Jennie Kuenz & Greg Allen
(Jesuit High School – Portland, OR, USA)
Physics teaches us that refraction happens when light approaches a different medium from a new angle. In the case of light approaching a prism, the result is a beautiful spectrum of visible light. This phenomenon mirrors the transformation that occurs within a student when learning. Rather than bouncing content back at their teacher or allowing content to travel through them, a learner takes hold of the content and bends it, changes it, wrestles with it, pulls it apart, puts it back together in a new way and makes it their own.
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