Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes

[rangenard]

let's not forget that the system she is criticizing is the one that gave us the greatest inventors, so whether the system is good or bad, the student has the responsability to do his/her best.

[caferbezgetir]

Why doesn't she talk a little bit faster? It's not quite fast enough.

[realpassionlife]

i knew it all along! ALL MY TEACHERS ARE DYSFUNCTIONAL AND NOT ME!! I wish Diana Laufenberg could be my teacher! *sigh

[cypts1]

This somewhat agrees with what Ken Robinson said on ''schools kill creativity'', that kids lose their creativity as they grow up because they become afraid of doing mistakes, and also agrees with what Tony Robbins, who although emphasizes on a different subject, he said that we see kids that become really successful when they pass through ultimate pain instead of others who are given love/joy. I agree,I think failure and mistakes is a step to success/learning, via them we can see the right thing

[leconfidant]

I live in Japan where they assume the opposite from her. The results are that even when all the kids do their homework on Friday nights and get the grades, they still have no initiative to recognise new issues, no imagination to research them and confidence to make decisions for themselves. This woman is so correct.

[cwood4ever]

This lady knows nothing about running a business or even being educated for the real world. What a dumb bitch

[leconfidant]

@cwood4ever The purpose of education is so children can learn to manage businesses... and experience based learning wouldn't help them do that... and you know because you're an experienced manager of highly successful businesses... and you are an expertise in education too who can prove her wrong.... You know what? I bet she can troll better than you can! Do you put on a gimp suit before you write these comments so people can hate you more? Go fail somewhere else.

[astroboomboy]

@cwood4ever Bitch

[cwood4ever]

@astroboomboy SILENCE FOOL, you're inferior and deserve to be slapped. I'm not your weak father who failed at raising you right. Don't talk to me like you're an equal.

[astroboomboy]

@cwood4ever Three words: Fuck you cunt!

[failblorg]

@cwood4ever Good Lord!! lol

[reforest4fertility]

the root of education expands out into educe, not inculcate,which means to take in or instill information. Yes, "no child left behind" really unravels to no child's behind left

[rcbneto]

I actually thought pretty amazing her work and have no doubt how much her students have learned (or learned how to get knowledge in a most effective way).

[baseemahAli]

i wish she was my teacher

[ultrahlm]

The fact is that we already knew, but hard for us to put to forth. If we are making products, it's better that we made freer mistakes. If generating new idea or experimental stuff, learning from failure is a must

[epapaluap]

Thank you thank you thank you! I will be sending this to ALL of my former teaching colleagues. I quit teaching because even those few folks who get these ideas are not brave enough to implement them (at least in the schools where I worked) and keep implementing them in the face of standardized tests, (mis)informed parents and dinosaur administrators. Right on! (P.S. the coolest people are from Wisconsin).

[ahmeds027]

ie its ok if u dont right any right answers, the fact that u will learn from ur mistakes should be good enough to graduate u

[baibegurlle14]

I'm a Senior at Science Leadership Academy and I'm in her American Government class. Most of the people with negative comments don't even know what they're talking about. Come visit SLA in Philly one day and see the difference of the environment of our school compared to a school with the standard curriculum.

[nosafespace]

smartest school teacher on the planet

[TheCHRM2]

No more TEDIKES

[EclecticSceptic]

Education does need to be revolutionised. Society is ill. People are raised as selfish propaganda-absorbing machines. We need to consider what the purpose of education is firstly. That is a difficult question. But the way education is generally pursued at present is wrong. That is not difficult to assess.

[MomoTheBellyDancer]

I know she means well, but this is complete bullshit. Failure is not an option. Make too many mistakes in life and you're out. It's best to teach children to clean up their act as soon as possible, since nobody likes losers.

[EclecticSceptic]

@MomoTheBellyDancer Strawman

[ludaXkillz]

@MomoTheBellyDancer Because we're taught to fail and move on, not to fail, analyze what part we failed at, try it again and succeed...(this is sarcasm, I know, it's hard to detect when written)

[bobopatchy]

I go to a school with the 1 to 1 program so all of our school has computers. i honesltly just go to school and play games all day long. No teacher at my school has really used the laptops in any new or positive way besides typing notes instead of writing them. i just do most of my learning at home and learn things i'm interested in anyway

[maknostik]

I've attended about 6 schools. I've seen a lot of different teachers, defferent teaching methodics and kids. It is true that average teenager these days has a lot on his mind - how to fit in, how to be yourself, dating, problems at home. But the truth is - now matter how well we do on our grades, we still look up to teachers to teach us something. To show us, to guide and inspire us - espessially because we feel lost and have so many new expiriences in our lives that we can't process

[GrimSoul66]

Where was she when i was growing up?

[modernblacksmith]

in countries where failure is NOT an option they are dominating the rest of the world in innovation and the advancement of modern technologies.

[ac4uv]

Another Outstanding TED Talk! Love the revolutionaries in education!

[rockickmusic]

#educate #yourself #learnsomething #Iloveyoutube #followu #followme #checkit

[LaiPt]

Teachers matter A LOT in a student's learning.

There's not a lot of superb teachers.

I wish I had her as my teacher :)

[monochromen64]

such a great talk :D

[jonathanbluestein]

Teaching learning skills is much more important than teaching one to become a parrot. A parrot cannot think for itself. A free-thinker who learns how to learn, gather and organize information can succeed in anything

[jajajah86]

@jonathanbluestein in real life the free thinker is successful but at school you need to be a parrot beacuse thinking differently from what is expected is stigmatized in education. A friend of mine solved a mathematical problem in a nexam using a different method from what we had already learnt. He gave the right answer to the question but he didn't get any points for that...

[nehorlavazapalka]

@jajajah86 you're naive

[dar482]

After a string of recently boring or nonsensical talks, this was a breath of fresh air.

[briansmobile1]

Diana Laufenberg, I love your passion and I love what you're doing!

[lumpfish99]

@GrudgyDiablo er ok.....whatever you say!....

[airste172]

@GrudgyDiablo Now if you'd be kind enough to give me a name for someone who drills holes in the bottom of a sinking boat and tells you he's doing it to let the water out.

[biooful1]

@holyscythe  --so students shouldn't experience the right answer for themselves?

[holyscythe]

Don't ever teach math, because there is always a right answer.

[slyckafin]

I love the bigots who comment here, feeling safe because of the anonymity that the Internet gives them and feel that they actually make constructive criticisms.

[airste172]

Teaching students to embrace failure sounds like a long term plot to take down a society.

[Kommaseir]

@airste172 "I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes." - Thomas Edison.

He embraced failure by learning from it. If he didn't, he wouldn't have succeeded. Society benefited.

[MadMadsGamer]

I like the idea of, just because you have music in the background with clapping hands, youre suddenly a good and helping thing! The commecial at the end!

[bluefootedpig]

As she said, the worst thing you can do is have someone fill in a bubble on a multiple choice sheet. Kind of sounds like voting doesn't it?

[daffeybill]

you are right comments on TED vids are comical

calling all ostriches the sand awaits place head here

or "color the bubble in completely or you will elect George Bush"

[kinsmed]

"Grrr. I hateses wimmenfolk.

Oh.

This ain't TED Women?

Never mind."

[lumpfish99]

this woman must be what?? mid to late 30s??? how many years has she been teaching??? she talks like shes been doing it for 30 years.....nonsense....and it sounded like she thought the internet is a revalation in learning......shes either an idiot or worse.....

[queennomers]

@lumpfish99 what are you talking about. The focus is not even on the internet. The focus is changing the way we teach to work with the resources we have available and allowing our students to explore instead of just filling out multiple choice tests.

[Hassl3]

@lumpfish99 Huh? Did you even watch the video? How is that what you got from it?

[khatack]

@lumpfish99

I don't give a crap if she's got only two days of teaching experience; Her ideas are brilliant and she is right. It's you who are an idiot and probably worse.

[lumpfish99]

@khatack ooohhh you seem to have a lot of hate in you.....bad for karma........are you her mommy???

[khatack]

@lumpfish99

Nah, not hate. Just pointing out the flaws in your logic.

[lumpfish99]

@khatack no i think you got angry! either way are you her mommy?

[khatack]

@lumpfish99

Then you think wrong. Which isn't surprising considering the fact that you *are* an idiot, and probably worse.

It also seems to be beyond your ability of logical reasoning that the chance of a male person mothering a child is about as high as the chance of a monkey writing Hamlet. Again this is not very surprising considering your lack of mental prowess.

[lumpfish99]

@khatack ooo...you really are angry arent you.....

[khatack]

@lumpfish99

Thank you, that comment made me chuckle :)

Seriously though, you need to let go of this anger approach; it already failed two posts ago. I'm not really sure if you have the mental capacity for understanding this, but I'm actually insulting you, not giving an angry rant. I understand that you're a little slow, so I won't hold it against you. I was just hoping that you wouldn't suffer from verbal ineptitude despite your lack of insight.

[lumpfish99]

@khatack its you again!!! dont you have anything else to do??? it would explain your attempts at insulting!! trying to get some practice eh?? tell me the truth now....did you google those three syllable words you used???

[khatack]

@lumpfish99

You'll find that people who require the usage of Google to bolster their vocabulary often have difficulties with basic grammar. These individuals often use multiple question and exclamation marks to emphasize their arguments or to express frustration and anger. In my experience, the best way to improve one's linguistic skills is to explore the fantastic world of literature - including those 'boring' science books.

And no, I currently have nothing better to do.

[oqal]

Who's Ted ?

[MadMadsGamer]

@oqal You...? me...? i dont know?

[heeh2]

Great talk.

[jennyannfraser]

I am so inspired to know that there are teachers like this out there and that they are speaking out.



[kaosgoblin]

I think that's a great approach. As a teen I realized the education system was failing me so I took it on myself to become self taught. I read everything I could find, I asked questions, got involved in the world, and after a while I started to become much smarter than the average schooled individual. Our system needs changing, and more importantly it needs results. She gets results, this is the leading edge of the change we need.

[Chamininable]

This woman is wearing the Metis Sash around her neck.. hmm.. Is she Metis?

[jsvjuggernaut]

where are the mistakes stressed in the presentation?

wasted 10 minutes

[xXBeach]

wow, this is a gr.12 class?..american education really is...embaressing.

[doloppost]

Good presentation; although I do have opinion that knowing facts by heart is still acquired in nowadays world.It's one side of learning.

[BroBroDude]

i am fat as shit. i cannot balance my own daily priorities. take seriously my advice on learning

[delatroy]

@BroBroDude so was winston churchill? 

[IRLBemused]

The secret here is that learning is not about acquiring "information" but about building "knowledge". Understanding this it is clear that mistakes need to be made in the process. Failure is instructional because it provides feedback on a product (which can be a mental construct) - feedback to both teachers and students. This talk needs some reference to the educational research literature.

[2bsirius]

Loved this video!

[Bellybusterr]

Ten whole minutes and nothing new.

[bitemyshinymettalass]

@trillby1 agreed, but one still needs the informational tools to know where and how to look, give a man a laptop and he will use it as a desk lamp... :))

[bitemyshinymettalass]

on the argument that "it's been working so far why change it now" although i support the idea of a non-standardized way of testing students, we must take into account the extreme stress the it would be on a teacher to objectively correct essays from 100-200 students. And inb4 i know collage teachers do that, but they do it 2 times a year, not bimonthly/monthly weekly... you get the point.

what this woman says seams idealistic and although 90% good, the best the system could offer would be.. 30%

[justatallguy]

This is awesome, great talk, a shame it is so short.

[TheSpankymonkey]

How to learn from mistakes... Obviously eating that extra slice of cake wasn't considered a mistake.... hehe.

[qball0247]

Wish I could've had this teacher from preschool through college

[333lemons]

Asking people what they can do with information rather than inspecting the "correctness" of the information? That should get the trolls all riled up...

An interesting insight into education in the information age. 100 years ago, a mans worth was measured by how much BS he could store in his mind. In the information age, it seems that the emphasis has shifted to -what- we can now do with this information.

Perhaps a hint of things to come?

[Aresftfun]

See TED? You can upload a speech by a woman that isn't sexist. 

[hashysh]

every FAIL is a WIN.

[reid300]

fuck this artsy bitch i want science. math. the frontiers of human discovery and progress. not some arts major or some bullshit talking about learning with no neurological or scientific tie to it! A FUCKIN TEACHER! AKA A GARBAGE DEGREE DUMBASS

[geragna]

@reid300 Silly-Willy.

[NextToNothing123]

From now on I refuse to read comments on youtube videos... all youtube videos...

[ldlemos]

@NextToNothing123 wise. myself, i'm trying for an aneurysm.

[The3nlightened0ne]

@NextToNothing123

Actually, you could do a dissertation on Stupidity and Immaturity by observing from most Youtube comments.

[elchafa]

Suggestions:

Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana

[frilink]

I like the ads in this video, it's at the end of the video and doesn't force us to watch it, but I voluntarily watch it....................

[Crazylalalalala]

this is interesting but failing is usually only useful if you actually get to the right answer.

i also have mixed feelings about letting the kids do too much on their own. sure its good for a few motivated kids but everyone else is just going to sit around. especially in these team projects and computers dont improve anything.

[souperflipz]

Please, comment-er-ists, stop the fighting. Pay no attention to the trolls. They live in a basement (literally or metaphoric or both), and they will not survive the evolution of our great future. Thank you.

[GordonEdward]

@souperflipz Trolls will never die out.

[joebobfrank666]

Does anybody else keep hearing her say "Imformation"?

[MobiusCoin]

It's important to realize that what you are learning is useful and knowing how to apply it makes all the difference in attitude. Even how I study for an exam is based off an optimization equation I derived years ago. Thanks calculus! I've found simple mechanical means to modify my speakers so that they don't blow when they reach higher frequencies. All things I learned in high school physics. It's all about how you understand what you are learning.

[elchafa]

@MobiusCoin ARE YOU HIGH?

[MobiusCoin]

I learned the processes of problem solving; to logically parse large problems into its individual constituents. I had an assignment for tech class to build a tree house, to figure out the height of the tree was impossible by just measuring because it was too high for us to climb and we weren't allowed to anyways. So my physics teacher tells me; "you know how to solve this". And I thought about it, it was the first time I actually used trigonometry in real life.

[MobiusCoin]

I agree with her for the most part. One of the best things my physics teacher ever told me is that after Dynamics "I was the master of the world." Obviously, this is stretching it. But I came to realize what she meant. I didn't have the best grades in the class, but I was pretty good at physics. What made me unique, she said, is that physics wasn't just a subject of study for me; it had true applications.

[stephenetienne]

This is what Montessori education is all about, although she never said Montessori once.

[anurre5]

Unfortunately, the math problems I teach my students DO have one right answer.

[MobiusCoin]

@anurre5 lol what about root4?

[anurre5]

Ya, the answer is 2 and -2 ..that's only one right answer. It's not like it could be 18, 3 and -4. There isn't multiple right answers like she's saying is possible for an essay type question.

[juliecranford]

@anurre5 Google "A Mathematician's Lament".

[DMcLeanUWE]

surely your school systems use long essay answers in exams, and not just MCQ's?

[steve0281]

This talk was a mixed bag.

[juliecranford]

I would have refused to do the assignments. Part of respecting someone's intelligence is respecting their right not to take up a project. Go ahead and threaten me with an "F". I don't care.

[Tood721]

@juliecranford you're fucking dumb.

[juliecranford]

@Tood721 NO U

[juliecranford]

@Tood721 Actually, I'm curious. Why are you calling me fucking dumb? Is it dumb to choose what to do with my time? Or do you think I'm fucking dumb for not caring about getting an F? It's elementary school, not college. I wouldn't even be there willingly, so why the fuck should I willingly submit to their retarded time-wasting, energy-wasting assignments? TIME-WASTING ENERGY-WASTING. Stupid, pointless assignments designed only to brainwash children into worship of the government.

[richardcadbury]

I remember being given an encyclopedia for my 11th birthday in 1999 and thought it was the best thing ever...it seems almost silly in retrospect!

[jackster1990]

we already know this diana but its never going to change sadly

[hutchings000]

@jackster1990 Its already changing :) And I'm a part of it :D

[HDvideosaregood]

What the fuck is the internet?

[MrDarkbloom]

She may be fat, but I agree with everything she says. :))

[luh2]

first knowledge is not equal to information

second right it's a paradigm of the past to always have the right answer, but that one learns (not only children) from mistakes, - _if_ you address the mistakes and correct them - is old (not wrong), - but seriously - new? not at all

[ldlemos]

reading the comments of TED videos always makes me want to puke.

[VitriolicAC]

@ldlemos LOL! INTERNET!

^ A quick summary.

[ForceOfWizardry]

@ldlemos Are you serious!? Get on your knees and SUCK IT!

[ForceOfWizardry]

@ldlemos Are you serious!? Get on your knees and SUCK IT!

[ForceOfWizardry]

Does this chick have A.D.D!? I liked the beginning, then around 5 minutes into it im like, "WTF is she talkin about!"

[SSPX3]

@ldlemos reading the titles of TED videos always makes me want to puke.

[ldlemos]

@ldlemos my original statement stands solid fuckers.

[gulllars]

@ldlemos your statement intrigues me, care to elaborate?

[Buddhabr0t]

if she cant even dress nice for a speak like this, including a huge audience - how is she dressing on a normal day?

[MonkayMan]

first TED talk that i think is a waste of time...

[BrewmasterFuzzball]

@MonkayMan you haven't been here long have you :P

[ORCA4312]

MY parents bought a set of World Book when I was five years old. It was a big influence on my life.

[csrtitus]

Boring!!!!!

[electronikita]

Well there are not that many people who want to learn anything really, so why bother? hose who want to learn will, those who don't won't.

[liquidminds]

@electronikita easy said. But if you know a little bit about how human motivation works, you will soon realize, that the way school today works, is the reason why so many kids don't want to learn.

If you haven't heard. Free will doesn't exist ;-)

[electronikita]

Fatteh xD

[ghostgate82]

The first minute of this video is mind blowing!

Not really.........

[frankscola]

wow that was great, that's a woman who should be put in charge of our new educational direction/

[Tour4Liberty]

i'm happy there are teachers like her. but, she didn't say something new.

[dvdragon]

Allowed to fail...not my snowflake! What about their self esteem?

/sarcasm

//she is dead on

[check537]

Admittedly a random point, just regarding style, but she uses the word "I" or "my" approximately 51 times in this presentation, which over 10 minutes is once every 12 seconds.

[Clausfarre]

I have waited for ages for something worthwhile with this subscription. I surrender! It is all crap!

Unsubscribed. Bye hippies.

[donnyforte2]

@Clausfarre "Bye hippies"

See you later, you danish socialist.

[liesandtricks]

Stuff like that is fun and you will learn some stuff, just not any in depth knowledge. I mean for some things you need more then just information, you need explanation.

I mean you learn how to do things like this and you learn the basics of the subject but thats about it.

[Terje1337]

8:36 that is what facebook looks like ...

[shintsu01]

i am sad that there was not a education type like this in my time cause the current one dint motivate me to claim educational diploma's

[Darvinisti]

Dont embrace failure. Accept failure as a consequence of your or your datas imperfectness. But otherwise this could have been good enough for the nonsexist TED.

[khatack]

Every singe teacher in the world needs to hear this.

[Joerexia]

I love how commenters like sonofagunM357 automatically dismiss using such simplistic reduction. News flash: Life is more complicated than your shitty analogy.

[Yaheuben66]

it is important to allow people (and banks...) to fail.

[theseanze]

Incredibly simple point, incredibly important and missing from our educational systems! TED talkers always get comments on how much of a no-brainer their theses are but too many Americans don't bother to factor these ideas into their work!

[sonofagunM357]

this video sucks, nothing she said is true, schools are but prisons and 'learning' is busywork given by your warden (teacher).

[theseanze]

@sonofagunM357 -- The whole point of the video is to change education away from that model and give kids the "free market" (if you like) to actually develop their brains.

[pipj108]

@sonofagunM357 Its Ironic how you watch these videos about learning, yet, you do not learn from them. Did you watch the video on mute or something?

[neobattle2]

interesting talk. 

[msteeves01]

@isambo400 awesome. 

[frungahr]

@isambo400 It's funny because she's fat.

[BaileysBeads]

What a great subject for TEDwomen LOL!

[hyperseauton]

@BaileysBeads

This is not TEDwomen...