Growth Mindset Playground #4

Here's the latest Storify for the week of May 22-28:
Growth Mindset Playground #4

Previous collections:

Growth Mindset Playground #3

Growth Mindset Playground #2
Growth Mindset Playground #1

Diigo: Growth Mindset materials

If you follow the #growthmindset tag at Twitter, along with education sources like Edutopia and Mind/Shift, you know how much information about growth mindset there is out there. The way I keep up with things (or try to keep up with them anyway!) is by using Diigo to tag materials that go by.

The main tag I use is just growthmindset, so if you click on that, you will see all the things I've tagged:
growthmindset

There are hundreds of items, but I have some other tags that are helpful. For example, I add the tag videos to the video items:
growthmindset videos

When I put the video in a playlist, I add that as a tag:
growthmindset videos playlist

And you can use the Boolean NO to look for growthmindset videos that are not in the playlist yet:
growthmindset videos NOT playlist

You can add notes to a Diigo item, and when I do that, I add the tag annotated, so here are my growthmindset items that have an annotation from me:
/growthmindset annotated

I use the tag challenges for the growth mindset resources I share with my students for them to explore:
/growthmindset annotated challenges

As you can see, I've got a lot of growth mindset materials, so I need to start making some subthemes to use to (re)organize all this stuff.

Growth Mindset Playground #3

Here's the latest Storify for the week of May 14-22:

Growth Mindset Playground #3

Previous collections:

Growth Mindset Playground #2
Growth Mindset Playground #1

Growth Mindset Theme: Curiosity

The growth mindset approach is composed of many different interwoven themes, and I'll be using this blog as a way to collect materials relevant to those different themes. One of the themes that is most appealing to me is CURIOSITY. Here are some thoughts about the importance of curiosity in growth mindset:

Quotes from Carol Dweck's book Mindset:

About a precocious child named Michael: Michael must have started with a special ability, but, for me, the most outstanding feature is his extreme love of learning and challenge. [...] Most often people believe that the "gift" is the ability itself. yet what feeds it is that constant, endless curiosity and challenge seeking. 

About a football player named Faulk: As he watched [football], he was always asking the question Why? "Why are we running this play?" "What are we attacking it this way?" "Why are we doing that?" "Why are they doing this?" "That question," Faulk says, "basically got me involved in football in a more in-depth way." Faulk sees his skills as the product of his insatiable curiosity and study. 

About Thomas Edison: Young Tom was taken with experiments and mechanical things (perhaps more avidly than most), but machines and technology were part of the ordinary midwestern boy's experience. What eventually set him apart was his mindset and drive. He never stopped being the curious, tinkering boy looking for new challenges.

Some articles to read: 

What’s Going on Inside the Brain Of A Curious Child? by Maanvi Singh (MindShift)

Curious Schools: The Secret to Improving Education by Bernard Bull

The Future Belongs to the Curious: How Are We Bringing Curiosity Into School? by Jackie Gerstein

How to Spark Curiosity in Children Through Embracing Uncertainty by Linda Flanagan

Cultivating Curiosity in Our Students as a Catalyst for Learning by Maryellen Weimer

And cats:

It was the proverbial association of cats and curiosity that first got me interested in creating the growth mindset cats!

Curiosity is not sedentary and passive.

Curiosity: the quest for new ideas and information.

The future belongs to the curious.

Be curious!

Storify: Growth Mindset Playground #2

Here's the latest Storify for the week of May 7- 14:

Growth Mindset Playground #2
Previous collection:
Growth Mindset Playground #1

Carol Dweck podcast: Mindset is Often Misunderstood

Here's a podcast with Carol Dweck: Theory of Educational Mind-Set Is Often Misunderstood. The transcript appears at the Chronicle of Higher Education site (subscription required) and the podcast is available via Soundcloud.

I used the ideas in this podcast to create a new growth mindset cat today; you can see that cat and learn more here: Examine what makes you anxious.

Storify: Growth Mindset Playground #1

Growth Mindset Playground #1
Items through May 7 2016.

Storify: Learning about Growth Mindset

Carol Dweck's "growth mindest" has a lot to offer learners, both in school and out of school. This Storify collects some resources you can use to get started.