“Instead of asking students what they want to be, we should be asking them who they want to be.” I wish I could give attribution for the above quote. It was something I saw on Twitter a few weeks ago, and it resonated with me. The film called, “The Science of Character” delivers a similar … Read more
As you may have gathered from yesterday’s “Flappy Bird” post, I am trying very hard to maintain a Growth Mindset, and to foster this thinking in my daughter and students. One of my favorite bloggers, Sonya Terborg, also talks about encouraging a Growth Mindset in her classroom. One of her ideas, in this post, … Read more
“Everyone’s playing this new app called ‘Flappy Bird‘,” my daughter announced from the back seat. “So no more Angry Birds?” I asked. “Nope.” She tried to explain the app to me, but a description of a bird that has to weave through spaces between pipes (which are inexplicably hanging from the sky and growing vertically … Read more