https://blog.learnlets.com/2007/05/mistakes/ Clark Quinn's learnings about learning Sun, 27 May 2007 17:22:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://blog.learnlets.com/2007/05/mistakes/#comment-20565 Sun, 27 May 2007 17:22:10 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/wp/?p=150#comment-20565 Excellent! Absolutely, mistakes are an opportunity to learn. Or not. It’s like Brown & Palincsar’s reciprocal teaching, where everyone uses the opportunity of a mistake to learn to catch it, and turn that ability on themselves so as to become self-improving learners. Great stuff.

]]> https://blog.learnlets.com/2007/05/mistakes/#comment-20546 Sun, 27 May 2007 03:26:49 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/wp/?p=150#comment-20546 Your thoughts on mistakes caught my eye. I learned something of a radical view on mistakes, which has informed my practice as an educator, from improv comedy. In improv, literally everything anyone says or does in a scene is an offer. If someone sneezes, shruggs, trips–anything–the other performers in the scene embrace it and work to build something with it. Just as improv is about making the ensemble look good, my work with teachers and students focuses on the ensemble (the class) as the unit that learns. With this formulation, there’s no such thing as mistakes (or, perhaps more accurately, everything is a mistake) because what matters is what the class (including the student who made the “mistake”) does next. Will they build with it to create more learning? Or will they laugh at it or otherwise get stuck, and create a less productive learning environment?

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