Focusing on mistakes

Once a month, this column will examine the insights that science offers about the way people learn, and how such findings could influence schools. Most of us can remember a moment like this from our school years: the teacher poses a question – maybe it’s math, maybe history.  You raise your hand, you give your […]

Source: To err is human – and a powerful prelude to learning – The Hechinger Report

Making mistakes turns out to be a powerful way to learn.