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Inventor to Schools: 'Let Kids Fail!' | MindShift - 0 views

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shared by John Evans on 10 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • John Evans on 10 Feb 14
     
    "We've heard the importance of failure and experimentation in learning. In this excellent interview on Science Friday, inventor James Dyson speaks about his direct experience with failures and schools' need to accommodate it. "My life and my day are full of failures," he says. "Failures are interesting.""
John Evans

A Classroom Full of Risk Takers | Edutopia - 2 views

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shared by John Evans on 20 Sep 17 - No Cached
  • John Evans on 20 Sep 17
     
    "No one learns without making mistakes. Quite the opposite-we learn when we make mistakes. But in the classroom, making mistakes and taking risks can be at best unrewarded, and at worst ridiculed and unnecessarily penalized. I asked my 21-year-old son the other day what high school class had made him feel safe to make mistakes. He said that he never made mistakes. Really? He explained that he only did the work if he knew he was going to succeed. That made me think about my own teaching: Do I create a classroom where students will be risk takers?"
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