Last year I wrote a post Blogging and Growth Mindset, More Connected Than You Think. which detailed how you can leverage the reflection process built within blogging to grow the growth mindset in yourself and your learners. I would like to continue that conversation here with what I intend to be a series of posts on developing conscious thought patterns that lead us toward the Growth Mindset. First, let's continue on the thought pattern that reflection can lead us toward a growth mindset. Beware, I'm about to go down a rabbit-hole, but I swear it'll come full circle! The stories that you tell yourself about yourself, your habits, your abilities are all an echo chamber and a self-fulfilling prophecy. These stories are running in the background of your mind each time you make an action or choice. When I make a silly error tell yourself the story that "I'm not good with technology.", whether you voice it aloud or you tell yourself the story silently in your
Who else remembers DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) from their school experience… Okay, you can all put your hands down now! DEAR can be more than Drop Everything and Read, it can also Drop Everything and Reflect . The reflection process solidifies learning, give facilitators a gateway into learner's understanding, as well as, teaches others and invites a continued conversation about the content at hand. John Dewey is quoted as saying, “We don’t learn from experiences, we learn from reflecting on experiences.” There are many great options to have learners reflect on their learning, especially those when you amplify them with Asynchronous Collaboration through reciprocal reflection and peer feedback. Schoology Discussions allow learners to post a reflection on a given question(s), while allowing others in the course to respond and reflect on the explanation of learning. (Remember that you can hide learner replies from one another until an original submission has been