In this Ted Talk Carol Dweck discusses a new way to teach children to succeed. I really enjoyed her ideas of how to challenge children to learn and not just reward them when something is easy for them. Dweck suggest praising children for they way they approach situations and logically reason through them. Follow the link below to learn more.
Ted Talk With Carol Dweck
Carol Dweck says "Not Yet"
Ted Talk With Carol Dweck
About Barbra Oakley
My father (a college professor) introduced me to Barbra Oakley. In her Ted Talk Oakley introduces some concepts about how to open your mind in order to make room for cognitive pathways to reach new ideas that your mind has not already establish a clear line of thinking. She references great thinkers of the world who placed their minds in a rest mood and then they were able to realize the concepts they once struggled with.
Follow this link to learn how to open your minds to new ideas.
Ted Talk With Barbara Oakley
Thank you for this tip about Barbra Oakley! That video looks great, and I also checked out the Wikipedia link: her book titles sound fascinating. I personally find it really helpful to "learn about learning" in these ways, and the best way to learn about those resources is person to person, based on what other people find really helpful. Growth mindset can be helpful for parents too; you might enjoy this page from the nice people at PERTS which is specifically for parents:
ReplyDeleteGrowth Mindset for Parents
And watch out for the http links: as you can see, the super-long links can make the formatting weird, too. It's always best to use link text, so that instead of
https://www.ted.com/talks/carol_dweck_the_power_of_believing_that_you_can_improve/transcript?language=en
you use link text:
Carol Dweck at TED
(just type the text you want, then click on the link icon and paste in the http, and you'll get a clickable link)
Some http links are just bizarrely long, but that's because they are really computer programming commands, not really meant for human consumption. :-)