Learn, Fail-Again

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Kerigan Novem The famous inventor Thomas Edison was once told that his effort to make a new type of battery work had produced no results. To which he replied, “Results? Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results! I know several thousand things that won‘t work!” His statement supports the idea that students benefit more from student-centered learning, because he could learn how to fix the problem on his own by doing something different than his several thousand other ideas. Excerpts from both “To Really Learn, Fail - Then Fail Again!“ and “New Math: Fail + Try Again = Real Learning” explain why hands on learning is better for students in science. Students understand better with help from other students. It is suggested that if students fail and try again, they have a better chance of learning and understanding something. “To Really Learn, Fail - Then Fail Again!“ states that a science teacher, Emily Hogan, gave each of her students a kit containing a foam plate, a balloon, a small stirrer, a sharpened pencil, and masking tape. Their project was to build a car using the supplies. Teachers are encouraged to help their students “learn by doing.” Many students fail, but they are expected to learn from their mistakes. Joe Levine says that students …show more content…

Samuel Becket, and Irish playwright and novelist, said, ” Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” A clinical professor named Mary Walker believes that if your engaged in a hard problem, you may accept the attitude that failure is okay, and accepting failure helps you learn. An experiment based on fourth and fifth graders compared student-based and teacher-based approaches. The excerpt from “New Math: Fail + Try Again = Real Learning” states that the researchers found that learning outcomes were higher for students who enrolled in science classes that take a student-centered

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