{"id":151,"date":"2020-12-03T03:36:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T03:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.jal.mybluehost.me\/\/?p=151"},"modified":"2021-02-01T10:25:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T18:25:56","slug":"learning-through-trial-and-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/blog\/learning-through-trial-and-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Through Trial and Error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">For me and many others, school centered on following prescribed steps, memorizing a lot of facts, and getting the right answer on the test.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Failure to do these resulted in academic failure.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Unfortunately, this approach to education discourages <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/blog\/trial-and-error\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">trial and error<\/span><\/a>\u2014a process of understanding and embracing risk, adapting to change, and navigating around obstacles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Trial and error involves the development of crucial skills and mindsets like critical thinking, curiosity, courage, confidence, self-efficacy, exploration, creativity, risk-taking, perspective-taking, problem-solving, reflection, patience, persistence, receiving and incorporating feedback, resilience, innovation, and more.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Failure to learn and practice these skills and mindsets makes it extraordinarily difficult to thrive in our personal and professional lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">If nothing else, trial and error provides the chance to try (and do) in the first place, giving a learning opportunity that wouldn\u2019t have existed otherwise and a push in the direction of flourishing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">So what if we re-centered academic success on the skills and mindsets that are essential to building a successful life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">There\u2019s a lot we can learn from trial and error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,3,10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-innovation","category-leadership","category-learning","category-problem-solving"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}