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Curiosity, Grit and Real Teacher Feedback – Watching TED Videos
I haven’t done it in a while but I watched a few TED Videos. The latest uploads were about education and I watched a few. I learnt a couple of things:
CURIOSITY – THE BUZZWORD IN EDUCATION
A few of the Talks on education were about utilising curiosity in decreasing dropout rates in US Schools. This makes sense because I do sometimes go on wild sprees on YouTube and Wikipedia on one thing and then it goes to the next and the next and before I know it, it’s 6am.
GRIT – THE PREDICTOR OF SUCCESS
Another TED Talk by Angela Lee Duckworth had this line: successful people has nothing to do with IQ, social intelligence, good looks but grit. Grit is a combination of passion and perseverance for long term goals. This was preaching to the choir as I am a huge believer in finding your passion and the perseverance will come easy. It comes easy because you love what you’re doing! I have written about this before (see link). I will be interested in the kind of further research she will come out with.
REAL TEACHER FEEDBACK – UTILISING VIDEO
I watched a TED Talk by Bill Gates and he talked about the need for real teacher feedback. He stated that 98% of teachers just got one word of feedback: satisfactory. One component to give effective teacher feedback was by video. In the example given by Bill Gates, a teacher would film her lesson and subsequently she would perform some reflective practice in conjunction with the video. I was watching that and I was thinking:
If there was a job going like that, I’m in! But I’m still passionate about sports performance analysis.
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