A breadth of experience stimulates a rich dialog among students. As experience broadens and knowledge expands, interest and motivation increases. Students summarize, using their wide experience, what they have learned in one or more formats. Teacher makes judgements of the level of student understanding. Tests measure the breadth of knowledge.
Students become avid readers, viewers and listeners.
Students recognize a need for more information. Students begin to think critically about what they read, view and hear. Students begin to use a wide variety of materials upon which to draw conclusions and synthesize their ideas. Students start linking what they already know with a variety of new information sources. Students begin the process of communicating their ideas to others.