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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!
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