In this task
Watch this video
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-learn-from-mistakes-diana-laufenberg#watch
Then, answer these questions in a form of a comment of at least 25 lines.
What do you think about teacher allowing, even encouraging, students to fail as part of the learning process? Is this a good idea or a bad idea?
Diana Laufenberg says that allow students fail is good for learning process? How failure may contribute to your students' learning process?
What was your favorite homework assignment? What made it your favorite? Did it involve experiential learning?
Think about a time you failed at something. Do you think you learned more when you tried to do it again the next time?
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Due date: May 1st
I think this teacher is incredible because she really knows the meaning of learning. So many times I experienced that my teachers only want one idea that they think is the right one but we are persons with different way of thinking. So that kind of teachers only do that we as students only memorizes what they want us to answer to pass a curse and not to say what we truly think about the theme in study. For me fail es basic in life because we learn about the mistakes that we do, so next time we will do it better. And nowadays teachers only think that learning is just having good grades. The teacher said in the video that the actual learning process teach kids to never be wrong and for me they create persons that want to be perfect in everything that they do in their lives and this will never be like this. We have to learn to make the best of us in all the aspects that we can but not to be perfect because is impossible to the human being never fail sometimes in their life. I don´t have a favorite homework assignment. All my homework in the University involve theory or exercises about some specific theme. Students that are more advanced in my career said to me that a course called Administración de Proyectos gives the best project of the entire career. The project is about proposing and put in practice an idea that can help to improve our society.
ResponderBorrarIn my academic life I have never failed a course but that does not mean that I have not experience failure in my life. As person I have made a lot of mistakes just like anybody, but the mistake that I think is the worse I have done was that some years ago I cheated in an exam. And my teacher knew I cheated and I spent the worse shame of my life with my mother and my teacher. But the worst feeling was that I disappointed my mother because that wasn’t the values she taught me. After that experience I have never cheated in any other exam even when I see my classmates do it because the teacher is not in the class or something like that. I learned that the real satisfaction comes when we do the right thing according to our values and never change it according to the situation we are living.
I think, the learning process is not as we knew from yesterday, nowadays we have the information around us; flying into the internet or in our desk between some pages of a book, and isn’t necessary go to meeting somebody if we’re looking for information about a topic in general.
ResponderBorrarThese changes make the learning process more interactive than it was, and with all that information we found on internet, books or people, it’s too easy that we fail at something, and absolutely it happens. But we don’t have to worry, because fails made us change the way that we think about something. So I think that allowing students to fail as part of the learning process is a good idea, and is necessary to be wrong if we want to learn something new.
Failure contribute to the learning process because when you are trying to understand a subject or a topic, you want to get all the information about it and keep it as clear as possible, so if you made a mistake or fail at something means that you haven’t got all the information and it makes you go to review the topic and remind in a better way that specific part where you failed.
Well, in my case, my favorite assignment was plastic arts, because in that subject I was able to let out my creative side. It was so exciting to go into a class where I use some colors, paper, glue and scissors to create a new project that means something really important to me, even it means nothing to everyone else. And, arts involve experimental learning but in a different way, you didn’t have a right answer or a wrong answer in a project, but maybe you failed when the final result didn’t mean what you expected, so you had to start it again.
Finally, there was a time when I failed at a math topic in the university. I studied the topic and I made exercises about it, when I make the short quiz where I had to use all I’ve learned (and I did, I put in practice the details I found in all those exercises), and then comes the results, I got a bad grade. It was impossible to me to believe that I failed if I studied very hard, so when I review the subject I found that I’ve been doing something wrong in all the exercises, and there was the reason why I fail the quiz. At the end I learn the topic correctly and I pass the test with a good grade. So, fail helps me to understand better the subject and I think I learned more the second time I did the exercises.
I think that the process of learning is as individual as the understanding of people, we all think different, so we all learn different, besides, how we see the information in our mind is completely unique, so I think that getting wrong ways in learning is important to show us the many paths we can choose, besides when we think in the roads that we aren’t taking for solve some troubles we can expand our perception, for me learning is a dynamic process and it doesn’t have complete relation with training, now we have information around us, so we can ask everything we can’t understand.
ResponderBorrarI think encouraging students or people fail is even better than train them to solve something, with fails we know what could be wrong, we can see the limitations of something (for example some math problems), and we can even develop some new kind of solutions.
My very favorite homework assignment is the construction of a current generator, dans Máquinas eléctricas, we (a friend and I) had to use home things for make the generator, it had to give 0.1 Watt, it is my favorite because we had to investigate, we use machines, we experimented so many options (in majority wrong) that we got like experts, we had to investigate with nothing of knowledge, but finally we could and got I perfect. It involve experimental and theorical learning, besides I learnt how to work like a team with my workmate, I think that so many wrong thinks we had to solve that at the end we knew all the reasons why they was wrong, we could improve our homework, and we could help another classmates that couldn’t make it good.
I’m pretty sure that at the next time I had to take Física 2 I was a genius, I could see as clear as possible all the thinks that the professor said, I think that it was like that because I got wrong in many exercises, that second time I took that course was absolutely easy, I took it with another professor because I wanted to see how different could it be (and it was completely different).
Since my first year in university I knew that I wanted to learn as many thinks as I could, and I knew that I have to get wrong for that, I have failed many different things, but I have learnt like 1000 percent more, and the next time I took Física 2 and Máquinas eléctricas (my favorite homework was in the second time I took it) I learnt like a master.
I think it's a very good way of learning, because people need to learn not only to wi, also we need to understand that all people make mistakes and we in a lot of cases wrong but we can learn from the mistakes and then make things with more effort and the acquired knowledge to make things better. I believe that enabling people fail can bring many benefits to learning. Usually when you teach a form in which it can perform a task and the teacher give you a similar task, you understand not only returns to follow the structure of what we had done so this makes students not to reason and become systematic then when they pass a situation not previously studied it is difficult to them resolve becauses they do not developed the reasoning in their minds.
ResponderBorrarAlso once you have made a mistake, you try to find what happened and recheck everything done before until you realise your mistake and proceed to check it, then this is very important because once that you take your time to recheck everything you did and investigate whether other sources internet, books and others to understand that then learn.
I study Business Administration, in my career usually most of the final projects of the courses are to find a company in which you can put into practice all the knowledge acquired. This is very important because the student can see that what is used to study the reality of companies and you can see the great importance of learning. One of my favorite projects is the one we are currently developing for the company "Compubetel Carthage," the project is to perform a financial assessment of the company, in a project stage had problems with cash flow then we should seek counseling with the teacher and then review all documents submitted by the company to see if they had a mistake until we saw that the error was our then learned enough to investigate both this issue.
Then definitely once you develop a project for the second time he realizes he does best and learn more.
I agree with failure as an important mechanism in the process of learning. That way I think, we could learn about where the limits are and also, to learn more in deep. In a class, It’s too common that the professor teach a lot of things, rules, … that, without questioning, we can’t learn the very reasons behind that knowledge. And in order to question everything, so we could learn more, we need to expect failure many times.
ResponderBorrarI like a lot experience learning. Last semesters I’ve been working for projects that involves much of the knowledge I’ve gather from my classes. That allows me to check the theory with practice constantly, so I could keep questioning the things I learn and the way I do things. For example, at the moment I’m in a project formulation class, where I’m learning about how projects in general work, like why they fails, how much projects fails and more. So I could contrast my formulation teachings and methods of improvement with the projects I’m involved. This is also true with technicals courses, where technology is ahead of the classes most of the time, but at the same time, good practices and common theory is the same.
I’ve failed many times, in many things, recently I could think about a project in my work with lots of bad management practices, stress was an all day problem, and the deadlines were hard to accomplish. Recently I learned that many times, things go that way not only for the bad practices, but because It’s natural to have that kind of problems and the solution it’s not to avoid them or even predict them, It’s to how to respond to them. I applied acquired tips from my class and things have been better since then.
I think is a good idea, sometimes we have to fail for really learn. Every person have a way of learning, for example, doing summarizes, the listening or reading way, each student is different and all of them have a lot of capabilities. There are a lot of teachers that go to a class and talk about something but only in the way they think, and when a student talk about others points of view, this is wrong.
ResponderBorrarI think Diana Laufenberg is an amazing teacher, because she cares and is interested in learning each of her students, and recognizes the potential of each one. Failure also can contribute in the learning process, because when you make a mistake, you always remind it and you know what do you have to do if you trying again or if you have to resolve the same type of problem, you can know the way of the solution.
I study mechatronics engineer and there are a lot of courses that I have to do projects, one of them is the Robotics course, and we had to do a gripper that simulates remove thyroid cancer, with nitinol that is a shape memory wire. We had to investigate and did a lot of experiments with the wire, because we never had the opportunity to work with this material. It was a good experimental learning process, we learnt a lot and in the final we get amazing results.
Everybody make mistakes, and we have to take advantage of that; when I have a mistake and I try again the next time I feel that I learn more, if you always do it right you don´t learn a lot. Because we learn about all the experiences and mistakes, and the idea is not make the same mistake again.
I think that is a good idea, because like she describe the process, is a process good for the students, because when they fail, them can observe the mistake and can implement new forms or ideas them self , hence students and teachers learn together.
ResponderBorrarIn my opinion, think the teacher is interested in search new methods that can help and encourage to student to study and go to class not only for go if not for obtain that knowledge practical that we obtain of the mistakes and we can’t obtain of our computer with internet.
This process is very good because no only makes that student go to class, also make to students creatives and also teaches that no ever we can have the reason and sometimes is necessary ask for help to others.
Moreover, my favorite homework are those in which no only have to memorize or write one and other time the same instruction, for example I remember that one time in Mathematics, the teacher had left of homework measure the cone in the "Ruinas", we had that find a form practical and ingenious for calculate the theorem of Pythagoras, we decided take the measures in noon with the shadow of sun, something that I know that never I forget like calculate. This is a way of learning like explained in the video and personally thinks that these are my favorite homework assignments, because really we have to think usual exercises in situations of real life.
Finally I think that everybody has failed in something in your life, I am not the exception, but this mistakes or fails helps us to learn more when we tried to do it again the next time undoubtedly, as the video say we know how to do this better and it’s time to do better
Well, when the teachers allowing or encouraging students to fail is bad idea, however, when the demand of teachers are aso much, is good because we (students) have to research and read a lots of books; so we can learn about the topic.
ResponderBorrari think teachers have to incite the knowledge with critical opinions and have to incite us to be a person with fundamental critical thought and incite us to be a person who is critical with his work, society, political things, etc.
Yes she did, she said that is absolute wrong think to ask to the kids to never be wrong, to ask them always have the rigth answer doesn´t allow them to learn; failure is a instructional process and can help students to grow up and learn the topics in diferents ways.
I loved the experimental works in the school because for me work in a artificial volcano or something like that was amazin, i won that science fair, i really enjoyed and untill i can remember everything about that homework that is the magic in those works, was in the school but i can still remember.
When i failed in something i learn more when i try to do again the next time, i’m a person who never give up, so i try to do my best not to fail, and when I fail I do not blame anything, I just think to do better next time.