Learners use the world as their laboratory. Different Ways of Knowing helps students understand and appreciate their community. Students explore resources outside the classroom and invite experts in to share information. Learners explore their learning over multiple drafts. Different Ways of Knowing encourages children to explore, refine, and elaborate their meaning over multiple drafts and to express their evolving understandings through a variety of presentational formats which include the visual arts, dance, drama, music, science, and mathematics, as well as oral and written language.
Learners learn in collaboration with others.
Learners learn best when they are not isolated from others, but are part of a community of learners that invites dialogue, exchange, and collaboration. Learners never stop learning. One line of inquiry leads to another. This is one of the major understandings of Different Ways of Knowing. The measure of true learning is not recall of material, but new questions that address new possibilities, leading the learner into new realms of exploration.