游戏与探究:培养“科学精神”的新途径

The Game and Inquiry Learning: New Way for Cultivating Scientific Spirit

探究学习作为培养学生科学精神的重要手段,历来受到教育界的高度重视。文章从探究学习的起源入手,剖析了探究学习的教学实践困境,如信息技术支持的探究学习也存在注重知识传授、对过程性重视不足、学生参与动机不强等问题。文章分析了游戏应用于探究学习的可能及其核心价值,认为游戏作为天然的探究学习环境,为问题解决与自主合作提供了空间,为学生的探究学习提供了可能,如能够发挥游戏的三层教育价值,可以为"科学精神"的培养提供一种实践的可能。最后,文章指出了游戏与探究学习面临的挑战。

As an important way to cultivating students＇ scientific spirit, inquiry learning has always been highly valued by the education sector. This paper firstly analyzed the origin of inquiry learning, further dissected the teaching practice dilemma of inquiry learning. The problems that the information-supported inquiry learning faced were laying too much emphasis on the knowledge instruction instead of process and the students＇ low participation motivation in inquiring learning. Secondly, the possibility and the core value of the games applied in inquiry learning were also investigated. The results showed that the game, which was a natural learning environment, could provide space for the problem solving and autonomous cooperation, and offer possibility for the students＇ inquiry learning. How to make the three-layer education value of games exploited could provide the practice possibility for the cultivation of ＂scientific spirit＂. Finally, the challenges that game and inquiry learning faced were also proposed.