Charlie Gedeon
@charliegedeon
Charlie Gedeon
@charliegedeon
Raising Thoughtful & Curious Kids and Provocative Teaching Advice
Inspiring ability to make learning something difficult more rewarding. This man is a genius at making youth and learners feel great about failing.

Raising Thoughtful & Curious Kids
From the article:
Engage them early in lively conversation.
Play card, board or videogames that build working memory.
Stress the intrinsic rewards of learning rather than grades.
Frame a bad grade as a reason to work harder.
Enroll them in schools where intelligence is seen as fluid rather than fixed.
Teach them that their ability is under their control.
Learning Effectively: Science, Insights and Techniques
Fascinating idea related to learning and the quirks of the brain that make it do seemingly useless things that have so much value.
“All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.” — Elliott Erwitt

Excerpt from the lecture referenced in the article:
It’s only by concentrating, sticking to the question, being patient, letting all the parts of my mind come into play, that I arrive at an original idea. By giving my brain a chance to make associations, draw connections, take me by surprise. And often even that idea doesn’t turn out to be very good. I need time to think about it, too, to make mistakes and recognize them, to make false starts and correct them, to outlast my impulses, to defeat my desire to declare the job done and move on to the next thing.