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Gayle Cole

Gever Tulley: Life lessons through tinkering | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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shared by Gayle Cole on 14 Aug 13 - Cached
  • Gayle Cole on 14 Aug 13
     
    @cookout70 @eramosp There's a place called Tinkering School! #hacking #problemsbecomepuzzles http://t.co/M0wSx3xctF
Jill Bergeron

Teach Kids to Use the Four-Letter Word | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/...-grit-4-letter-word-joe-hirsch

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shared by Jill Bergeron on 17 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Today's classrooms are notorious for handing students the basic skills to live in the world while denying them the strength of character to transform it.
  • By shifting the focus of our feedback to effort as opposed to outcome, we leave students with the feeling that their best is yet to come.
  • Duckworth’s research is heir to the work of Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck (2) on mindsets. Believing that we can succeed even after suffering repeated setbacks (what Dweck calls a "growth mindset") can actually re-wire our brains -- and rewrite our fortunes.
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  • Angela Duckworth (1), an associate professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, studied (among others) the performance of West Point cadets during basic training. She discovered that the most powerful predictor of success -- acceptance into the academy -- was grit. Duckworth calls grit "the tendency to sustain interest in and effort toward very long-term goals."
  • Every Friday, my students cap a week of learning with self-rating journal entries like "Something New I Learned" or "This Week's Memorable Moment." To test their grit, I've added a new prompt: "Something I Struggled With."
  • Finally, create a forum for class-wide discussion about grit at community meetings. These are scheduled, relaxed opportunities for students to sound off on issues affecting their class and their world
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