I watched the YouTube video Why You Need to Fail by Derek Sivers. I believe it relates to the NETS module #2:Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments. I was intrigued right away by the title of the video because I have always been one who was “afraid to fail”, so I wanted to know why failing is necessary. The perception of failure I believe is varied for each individual. At the beginning of my EDUC 422 class Professor J. Heil said that he “expected” or “wanted” us “to make a mistake”. After I watched Derek Sivers’ video I understood his comment to a greater scale.
Sivers breaks up his reasons into three: #l: learning, #2: growth mindset, #3: experiments. He made a statement “if you’re not failing, you’re not learning”. It makes sense because we all learn from the mistakes that we make. For instance, when I make mistakes on my Spanish homework, I am more apt to remember my mistakes and learn from it; my mistake was mentally embedded. The growth mindset basically says that anyone can do whatever they want because when someone practices they get better at what he/she wants to do; not everyone is a “born” artist or athlete. Sivers shows the progress of a painting done by Picasso and it shows that Picasso changed his mind a few times of how he wanted a bull fighter and bull to be portrayed. Picasso’s “mistakes” was just a change of his mind and not a mistake, and ultimately it created a masterpiece. The third reason is to develop different experiments. All the things that someone tries may not be perfect in their eyes, but it will eventually result in success rather than just focusing on one skill or experiment.
I believe that module 2 will enable us to give different “learning experiences” for children. They are able to grow outside of their comfort zone and develop these new ideas. Allowing students to try new experiments and grow from their so called “failures/mistakes” allow them to enhance their skills mentally or physically. We need to give children experiences to be able to fail and assess their failures. I encourage my daughters to keep trying and not allow them to just give up and say they can’t do it, but they need to keep trying and maybe try a different way. Failing is a stepping stone to success.
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