Carol Dweck's Attitude About Intelligence
/Most famously, Dweck and her collaborators have demonstrated that praising children for their intelligence can backfire. When young people’s sense of self-worth is bound up in the idea that they are smart—a quality they come to understand as a genetic blessing from the sky—at least three bad things can happen. Some students become lazy, figuring that their smarts will bail them out in a pinch. Others conclude that the people who praise their intelligence are simply wrong, and decide that it isn’t worth investing effort in homework. Still others might care intensely about school but withdraw from difficult tasks or tie themselves in knots of perfectionism. (To understand this third group, think of the Puritans: They did not believe they had any control over whether they were among God’s elect, but they nonetheless searched endlessly for ways to display that they had been chosen, and they were terrified of any evidence that they were not.)
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Ken Robinson Talks About How To Be In Your Element
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A recent speech by Ken Robinson at the Royal Society for the Arts. His book “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything” is a great resource full of anecdotes and words of wisdom concerning how you respond to your natural talents and passions.
The World Through the Eyes of a Transmedia Generation
/Participatory culture is a global phenomenon. Young people all over the world are embracing the expressive and distribution resources of the computer to create and share their own cultural materials with each other. In countries all over the planet, they are mixing together local traditions of folk culture with the now globally accessible forms of digital expression in ways which could not have been imagined by previous generations. And as they do so, educators and parents are starting to recognize these creative communities as sites of informal learning which are transforming the ways these teens see themselves and the world. In every country, it is different. In every country, it is the same.
Museum of London 'StreetMuseum' iPhone App
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The Museum of London has launched an iPhone app that enables users to access its extensive art and photographic images of the streets of London
Developed in conjunction with Brothers and Sisters, the free StreetMuseum app utilises the iPhone’s geolocation technology to allow users to hold up their phones to London landmarks and overlay a historic image of it on the real-time image.
This is a great new use of Augmented Reality.