Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Wanna learn? Be a teacher!


This forum thread started by Eleni Politaki drove home a truth we sometimes forget:


By teaching you get a chance to see if you have really learned

It also reminded me of the importance of challenging yourself. When you push your limits, or raise the level of difficulty of a task, you are bound to get much more out of the learning experience. A point that is stressed in the growth mindset versus the fixed mindset concept.

Genise White shared this idea in a nice image:



The video validates the ideas we tossed around in the thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brpkjT9m2Oo


This MOOC is YET another opportunity to be challenged.






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