Curiosity-driven learning has shown significant positive effects on students' learning experiences and outcomes. But despite this importance, reports show that children lack this skill, especially in formal educational settings. To address this challenge, we propose an 8-session workshop that aims to enhance children's curiosity through training a set of specific metacognitive skills we hypothesize are involved in its process. Our workshop contains animated videos presenting declarative knowledge about curiosity and the said metacognitive skills as well as practice sessions to apply these skills during a reading-comprehension task, using a web platform designed for this study (e.g. expressing uncertainty, formulating questions, etc). We conduct a pilot study with 15 primary school students, aged between 8 and 10. Our first results show a positive impact on children's metacognitive efficiency and their ability to express their curiosity through question-asking behaviors.

翻译：好奇心驱动的学习已被证明能显著改善学生的学习体验与成果。然而，尽管其重要性显著，有报告显示儿童尤其缺乏这一技能，特别是在正式教育环境中。为应对这一挑战，我们提出了一项为期八次工作坊的课程，旨在通过训练一系列我们假设与好奇心过程相关的特定元认知技能，来增强儿童的好奇心。该工作坊包含动画视频，介绍关于好奇心及上述元认知技能的陈述性知识，以及利用为本研究设计的网络平台（例如表达不确定性、提出疑问等），在阅读理解任务中应用这些技能的实践环节。我们针对15名8至10岁的小学生开展了一项初步研究。初步结果显示，该课程对儿童的元认知效率以及通过提问行为表达好奇心的能力产生了积极影响。