Edu Research & Insights

Snippets: - For a long time, there's been a perception that failure damages people. - In turn the failure, and making mistakes, is a really crucial part of learning. - One of the big issues is that students are reluctant to display their learning or their knowledge or their curiosity for fear of not being right. - We have bred a generation where it's not OK to get critical feedback. It's not OK to tell someone that they haven't reached a certain standard.  - Melbourne school is embracing failure. The Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School teachers will be projected onto screens in every classroom as the school kicks off Failure Week. Click to read the full story from source:

Snippets: - The expectancy-value model suggests some strategies, most of them pretty intuitive. The value will be higher if  - the book is on a topic the child already loves, or  - if it’s a book that a lot of his peers have read, or  - if it concerns a topic of practical utility to the child.  - The expectation of successful reading will be higher if it’s at the right reading level, - if it includes a lot of pictures (as a graphic novel does),  - if the chapters are short, or  - if the child already knows the story. - By the time kids are in their late teens, average media exposure approaches  11 hours per day . Expectancy value theory is directly linked to uses and gratifications theory. The theory was founded by Martin Fishbein in the 1970s. According to expectancy-value theory, behavior is a function of the expectancies one has and the value of the goal toward which one is working. Click to read from source :

Snippets: - In recent years, cognitive scientists have done much research on how making mistakes help us learn. - One study says that, specific procedures for solving problems, largely ignored errors and praised correct answers. Japanese teachers, by contrast, asked students to find their own way through problems and then led a discussion of common errors, why they might seem plausible and why they were wrong. Praise was rarely given and students were meant to see struggle and setbacks as part of learning. The difference, the authors believed, is one reason that Japanese students outperform in math. - It is important for students to have growth mindset, students will begin to see errors as a path to learning rather than humiliation. When one teacher (teacher in interview) shared students’ errors anonymously with the class, he says, “the kids got really good about saying ‘Hey, that’s my mistake! Let me talk about what I did wrong.’ It was incredible. They...