Talks
Keynote - Power to the People who Teach the People with Sheena O’Connell - YouTube
Common practices for learning
- Read and re-read
- Passively watch videos
- Memorization / pattern matching vs proper understanding
Learning feels hard
- “This is difficult” → “Maybe I’m doing it wrong”
- Learning how to learn → Exponential skill
Normal distribution in class
- Some students do very well
- Some students do very poor
- Most of them do ok
[Bloom’s 2 sigma problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom’s_2_sigma_problem
Fixed mindset
- You have the ability or you don’t
- You can’t get better
Growth mindset
- You have the ability to learn Growth mentality
- Don’t take failure personally
- Look at struggle positively
- Willing to seek out for help
- Less judgemental of others struggles