Mindsets, Myths, and Messages: How We Promote (and Undermine) Growth · 2016-03-08 · Mindsets,...

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Mindsets, Myths, and Messages: How We Promote (and

Undermine) Growth

Jeff Greene, Ph.D.

School of Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The 2016 Student Success Conference

February 22, 2016

“It is very likely that our students’ brains have physically changed – and are different from ours – as a result of how they grew up.”

“But whether or not this is literally true, we can say with certainty that their thinking patterns have changed.”

- Prensky (2001)

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Myths

•Digital Natives

•Multitasking

•Learning Styles

Messages

•Mastery goal structures

•Criterion grading

•Testing is ok!

•Revising is ok!

•High expectations

•Wait time

•Teacher failure is not an epic fail!

jagreene@email.unc.edu http://click.web.unc.edu