https://schooling-frontier.pages.dev/tags/active-learning/ Recent content in Active Learning on Schooling Frontier Hugo en Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0900 https://schooling-frontier.pages.dev/posts/children-are-geniuses-at-overhearing/ Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0900 https://schooling-frontier.pages.dev/posts/children-are-geniuses-at-overhearing/ A review in Current Directions in Psychological Science shows that children aren’t passive recipients of adult speech — they actively learn new words by eavesdropping. In one experiment, 4.5- to 6-year-olds learned words equally well from overhearing a phone call as from being directly taught.