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The Power of Yet

Added Aug 16, 2016 •

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This inspiring Ted Talk is all about the growth mindset...the power of YET. I appreciate how this approach encourages children to engage in challenges and embrace that "can do" attitude that contributes to growth and lifelong learning. Check it out!

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the power of yet I heard about a high school in Chicago where students had to pay is a certain number of courses to graduate and if they didn't pass a course they got the grade not yet and I thought that was fun plastic because if you get a failing grade you think I'm nothing I'm nowhere but if you get the grade not yet you understand that you're on a turning it gives you a path into the future not yet also gave me insight into a critical event early in my career a real turning point I wanted to see how children coped with challenge difficulty so I gave 10 year olds problems that were slightly too hard for them  summer Admiral reacted in a shockingly positive way they said things like I love a challenge or you know hoping this would be informative they understood could be developed how would I call a growth mindset other students felt it was tragic catastrophic from there more fixed mindset perspective their intelligence had been up for judgment and they failed instead of luxuriating in the power of yet they were gripped in the tyranny of now what do they do next I don't tell you what they do next and one study they told us they would probably cheat the next time instead of studying more if they fail to test another study after a failure they looked for someone who did worse they did so they could feel really good about themselves study after study they have run from diff how did scientists measured the electrical activity from the brain as students confronted an error I left you see the fixed mindset students there's hardly any activity they run from the error they don't engage with it but on the right you have the students with the growth mindset the idea that abilities can be develop they engage deeply their brain is on fire with yet they engage deeply they process the error they from it and they correct it  how are we raising our children are we raising them for now dead of yet are we raising kids who are obsessed with getting eggs raising kids who don't know how to dream Big Dreams  their biggest goal is getting the next egg or the next test score and are they carrying this need for constant validation with them into their future lives maybe because I'm where is a coming to me and saying we have already raised a generation of young workers who can't get through the day without an award so what can we do how can we build that bridge to yet who sings we can do first of all we can praise wisely not praising intelligence or talent that has fail don't do that anymore but praising the process that kids engage and their effort their strategies their focus perseverance their Improvement this process praise creates kids who are Hardy and resilient your ways to reward yet recently teamed up with game scientists from the University of Washington to create a do online math game that rewarded yet in this game students were rewarded for effort strategy and Pro the usual math game rewards you for getting answers right right now but this game rewarded process and we got more effort war strategies or engagement over longer periods of time and perseverance when they hit really really hard problems just the words yet or not yet we're finding gears ads greater confidence give them a pass into the future that creates greater persistence we can actually change students mindsets and one study we taught them the every time they push out of our comfort zone to learn something new and difficult the neurons in their brain can form new stronger auctions and overtime they can get smarter look what happened in this study students who were not taught this growth set continue to show declining grades over this difficult School transition but those who were taught this lesson showed sharp Rebound in their grades we have shown this now this kind of improvement with lessons and thousands of kids especially struggling students so let's talk about equality Star Country  there are groups of students who chronically underperformed sample children and inter our children on Native American reservations and they've done so poorly for so long that many people think it's Capital Educators create growth mindset classrooms steeped in yet quality happens and here are just a few examples in one year a kindergarten class in Harlem New York scored in the 95th percentile on the national many of those kids could not hold a pencil when they arrived at school in one year fourth grade students in the South Bronx way behind became the number one fourth grade class in the state of New York on the state math test  in a year to a year and a half American students in a school on a reservation went from the bottom of their District top  and that District included affluent sections of Seattle so the native kids out did the Microsoft kids  this happened because the meaning of effort and difficult were transformed before effort and difficulty made them feel dumb feel like giving up but now effort and difficulty that's when their neurons are making new connection stronger connections that's when they're getting smarter  I received a letter recently from a 13 year old boy he said Dear Professor dwak I appreciate that your writing is based on solid scientific Force and that's why I decided to put it into practice I put more effort into my school work into my relationship with my family and into my relationship with kids at school and I experience Improvement in all of those areas I now realize I've wasted most of my life let's not waste any more lives because once we know that abilities are capable of such gross it becomes a basic human right four children all children to live in places that create that gross to live and places filled with yet thank you

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