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"I recently visited Thetford Academy in Vermont (one of the few and interesting public-private academies in New England) where they have a formal and explicit commitment to “experiential learning.” So, the leaders of the school asked me to visit classes that were doing experiential learning and to talk with staff at day’s end about it."
Beth Dichter's insight:
In this post Grant Wiggins discusses that experiential learning does not equal minds on learning. One can learn from their hands, but not engage their mind. He notes (and this is quoted from the post): Many projects, problems, situations, and field trips do not yield lasting and transferable learning because too little attention is given to the meta-cognitive and idea-building work that turns a single experience into insight and later application. How can we help our students engage their minds? Wiggins provides three examples of a series of questions that may help you come up with questions that you could use with your students. Below is the set of questions that he asks students when he visits classrooms:
For the back story on these questions (and to see the others) click through to the post. 
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For sure when using the experiential method of teaching and learning, the teacher must emphasize what areas of the teaching/learning process the learners must master and transfer or otherwise the learners might simply take the learning for granted.
We must link learning to student passions to make hands on minds on.