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Do you praise effort or talent?
In 1998 Carol S Dweck published a paper called “Praise for intelligence can undermine (children’s) motivation and performance” in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Paul put the brackets around the word children because he thinks this applies equally to adults.
The study compares the impact on performance of praising effort and praising natural talent. The results may influence our reactions to learner behaviour in the training room (and how we respond to our own children).
Top 10 activities for participant centered learning
Following on from my “top 10” (ways to split a group) post a couple of weeks ago I thought I would do another one.
So here, in no particular order, are my top 10 activities for un-facilitated learning:
Check list – each participant is provided with a tick list of activities they should have completed by the [...]
Posted in Practice Also tagged accelerated learning, anchoring, challenges, creation, facilitation, retention 3 Comments
Training jargon exposed and explained!
In business, on the tv, in the news and in our personal lives we are bombarded with short cuts. And it's getting just as bad in the training world - SMTs, OJT, JIL, SPL to name but a few.
We were told about this fantastic site that presents over 60 learning terms in the form of a periodic table. Just hover the term and a brief explanation is given.
10 fantastic quotes about UNlearning
Over Christmas I spent some time trawling the interweb for interesting blogs, thoughts and ideas and I came across these.
I really love the idea of unlearning that which isn't useful any more or is unsupported or is no longer relevent in todays world.
Ally and I have already posted some "debunking" posts and I guess these [...]
Posted in Reflections Also tagged accelerated learning, change, meaning, memory, quotations 13 Comments
If you use surveys or quizzes this is just for you.