Growth Mindset Analysis and Learning
When I first heard the term "Growth Mindset", I had not had any prior experience with the term, but it felt fairly self-explanatory as to the idea behind the phrase. It encompasses an idea prevalent in many fields of taking failure and learning from it and making it your success, using the lessons and experience gained to further one's learning and later achievements. It removes the fear of failure by giving students challenges in order to push them beyond what they think they can do, and if failure comes as a consequence, helping them move on from it.
I definitely appreciate her idea of making learning challenging, because the difficult lessons are the ones that are usually best remembered. In my own school career, this has definitely been the experience I have had, control theory has been one of the most difficult subjects, but now it is the main thing I study for my graduate work. This was due to the challenge of it made it an exceptionally rewarding experience and something that I wanted to spend my time learning more of and perfecting in order to succeed. The biggest challenge to Growth Mindset in my OU career is just the time crunch, not everything can be examined in the depth it deserves, tough decisions need to be made from a time perspective in order to ensure all material is absorbed. This means taking strategic times where one does not challenge themselves at the highest level, doing the opposite of what Carol Dweck says and run from these challenges rather than embracing them. I feel this is important not from a failure of wanting to learn, but instead from a desire to learn a much as possible in the best manner possible.
For this semester, the Growth Mindset is not so much something that needs to be implemented in my actual classwork, but in my research work as a whole. Most of my classwork simply supplements the research, but in the research itself Growth Mindset is heavily applied. In our current project, there are the safe strategies and objectives I can meet to satisfy my professor's minimum requirements, but by going the extra mile and planning in advance for future features and iteration, aggressive strategies for implementation and streamlining, and finally, a willingness to crash and burn a couple times, lends itself to a stronger final project and more goals met. At the end of the day, it will not be so much about the needing to challenge ourselves further, but more so to overcome the failure inherent in these challenges in order to achieve more success than planned.
I definitely appreciate her idea of making learning challenging, because the difficult lessons are the ones that are usually best remembered. In my own school career, this has definitely been the experience I have had, control theory has been one of the most difficult subjects, but now it is the main thing I study for my graduate work. This was due to the challenge of it made it an exceptionally rewarding experience and something that I wanted to spend my time learning more of and perfecting in order to succeed. The biggest challenge to Growth Mindset in my OU career is just the time crunch, not everything can be examined in the depth it deserves, tough decisions need to be made from a time perspective in order to ensure all material is absorbed. This means taking strategic times where one does not challenge themselves at the highest level, doing the opposite of what Carol Dweck says and run from these challenges rather than embracing them. I feel this is important not from a failure of wanting to learn, but instead from a desire to learn a much as possible in the best manner possible.
For this semester, the Growth Mindset is not so much something that needs to be implemented in my actual classwork, but in my research work as a whole. Most of my classwork simply supplements the research, but in the research itself Growth Mindset is heavily applied. In our current project, there are the safe strategies and objectives I can meet to satisfy my professor's minimum requirements, but by going the extra mile and planning in advance for future features and iteration, aggressive strategies for implementation and streamlining, and finally, a willingness to crash and burn a couple times, lends itself to a stronger final project and more goals met. At the end of the day, it will not be so much about the needing to challenge ourselves further, but more so to overcome the failure inherent in these challenges in order to achieve more success than planned.
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I chose this as my assigned image because I liked the message it sent about being able to find a solution to every problem, something that speaks very closely to me as an engineer, because every solution we create causes more problems, and it is necessary to combine resources with others in order to find a way to overcome the challenges created.
Engineering is a great field for growth mindset in general, John-Paul, and for learning the value of crashing and burning: real experiments where you do your best to anticipate the outcome, but where you are also ready to learn from whatever happens. Experiments in writing do not have the literal "crash and burn" but the idea is still the same: to keep learning, no matter what happens!
ReplyDeleteKeep watch as we go through capstone. There is a focus on personal growth in the class, especially with how the tasks are being divided. We have to challenge ourselves and be ready to learn from every challenge thrown our way, no matter how unpredictable it may seem. I think our professor enjoys watching who learns and who doesn't and has fun throwing new problems our way.
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