Carol Dweck on Linked Learning Transcript
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ConnectEd
Expert commentary by:
Carol Dweck
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Carol Dweck: I'm Carol Dweck. I'm a professor of psychology at Stanford University.
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Carol Dweck
Professor of Psychology, Stanford University
Author, "Mindset"
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Carol Dweck: This integrated learning, where the same issue crops up in your history class, in your drama class, in your physics class, as it does in ConnectEd, is really a beautiful thing, because expertise in the real world is about knowing something from every angle.
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Carol Dweck: And when students think about, "Oh, someone's a genius," they think, "Oh, they just have it." No. They learned it from every angle. It didn't come naturally. They looked at it from a historical point of view, they looked at it from a narrative point of view, they looked at it from a physics, chemistry point of view. It really models related to my work how expertise is developed, not just over time, but by addressing it from different perspectives over time.
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Carol Dweck: Our research is showing that just having a growth mindset really helps kids in math and science, in particular. But if that math and science is connected to real world things, and if they have a connection to people who have been successful in that world, well it just brings it to life. I can now see myself as a scientist or a tech person.
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Carol Dweck: The connection between growth mindset and math and science learning is really something, because you can feel those skills growing. You feel the frustration of how hard they can be, and then you feel the power of mastering them and seeing that improvement. And then again, taking it into a real world, building those robots, being mentored by someone who's been there and done it is really, I think, a spectacular way to proceed.
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Carol Dweck: The growth mindset isn't a particular deeper learning strategy, but it provides a perspective for the student that encourages the student to a job, to pursue the different strategies of deeper learning. For example, in a fixed mindset, they don't want to collaborate. They want to be the achiever or the star. They want to look good. Or maybe they won't collaborate because they don't want to look bad.
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Carol Dweck: But in a growth mindset, where you want to learn as much as possible, with other students and teach them in the process, it's a natural for collaborating. So the idea is that a growth mindset is a framework that orients you toward learning and that facilitates all the different aspects of the deeper learning strategies.
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14 Comments
Emily Hein Nov 4, 2021 9:57am
0:36 Growth mindset is the veiw that you can get better and it is not just something you are born with. I remember my sophmore year in college my math class started with a really hard quiz and she prooved to us by the end of the year we would improve because we are growing it is not natural.
Susan Hancock Jul 29, 2020 11:16am
The growth mindset is being able to make connections across all content areas with a particular skill. It is important to set the students up for success. Students want to learn and to finding learning opportunities that link all content reas is very important for learning success.
Jessica Marze Jul 27, 2020 3:11pm
Linked learning provides opportunites for students to generalize what they are learning across all subjects. When students are able to do this they have really learned the content. The growth mindset is giving the student the ability to apply what they have learned in a real life situation.
Cheryl Harper Jul 27, 2020 2:20pm
Growth mindset is not only about having the mindset you can do it but being able to make the connections across all content areas with a particular skill. It is so important to set the stage early for your students to want to learn and to find learning important and relative.
Kevin Pettit Jul 27, 2020 1:06pm
Linked learning provides a more diverse and effecient method of deeper understanding. If we can commit to incorporating this practice into our schools we will graduate more students that are better prepared for the transition to the work environment.