The Ingredients for Extremely High Achievement

TRUE GRIT

Talent + Passion + Hardwork
*being in an uncomfortable place, working hard on a weakness
*10 yr rule - spending time on deliberate practice to master a skill

WOTE - unique and cute

Walk off the Earth - a creative group that never fails to amaze me.



Still from WOTE, my first appreciation of their works:

Homo sapiens, homo faber: man as thinker, man as maker

It's really a great way to put it - learning as moving away from spoon feeding to play.  Connects right into Werbach's gamification theories.


There is another read about learning as being Thinkers (visible)  and doers (reflective): http://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/user%2F11983355272208248882%2Fstate%2Fcom.google%2Fstarred

Gamification

Gamification

The use of game mechanics in a lot of mundane tasks esp. enhancing learning.

Here we see the badges, a way to structure a task that promotes achievement.

Anatomy of Fun

RELEVANCE TO EDUCATION (Learning)

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Great Teachers

Learning is an intensely sensory experience – three dimensionality in learning - it’s about greatly interactive experience.  They’re related to tastes and sound, great teachers understand that.

They don’t just plan and deliver lessons, they create  learning experiences.

Test score is the mark of the good teacher, but not of the great teacher. Greatness is something that transpire beyond the classroom. 

Great teachers teach students what they can do instead of what they cannot.

Two poles

Opposing views and difficult divergent assumptions.


This is how I am situated right now, on one end of the cliff.

They say that when you build a bridge, you always have to start with one side.  The problem I suppose is when the other side diverts the direction constantly, a sort of sifting bank that moves to another direction.

Example.

The assumption that people have good intentions as diametrically opposed to assuming that people will take advantage or manipulate.  How do you weave these.

My being seems to seek a better climate.

Plants need the right climate to grow, people all the more do so.