Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes 

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.

she makes a good point. Just memorizing a bunch of stuff for an exam or test is not how learning happens in the real world. Learning involves learning from trial and error.

I like this speech because my attitude was changed assertively by this speech and I didn't avoid failures and mistakes from now on. Thank you for making this speech.

Wow, if we only had teachers with this enthusiasm, understanding and talent imagine how successful our children will be including their self determination and self worth.

I feel like the system of learning from trial and error only works if you have multiple trials. So the kids who failed with the infographics have to do them again to show they learned to do it better. Thats fine, but you cant apply that in a lot of places because you often have to learn things in a limited amount of time.

Hey, it's my old 4th hour social studies teacher!!!

Hank Schrader, theres a difference between mistakes in life and a fucked up life you know..i have tons of mistake in my career alone but im not fucked up in my job, those mistakes has been my teacher and it brings me up if could you believe it.

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.

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

Great talk. I would say that encouraging resilience is more important than embracing failure.

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

so true. Doing standardized tests never really helped me. The goal is to pass not to learn.

Experimental learning! Great point! Each educators should allow their kids to feel a part of learning process.

Whatever you do, don't worry about it. Remember, to err is human...to forgive is _humaner_ 😅

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.

--"How to learn? From mistakes"-Diana Laufenberg The verbal communication about the video was the speaker able to express her feelings in a way of talking and speaking out loud of what she felts. She were also able to share information to the crowd by telling them how to embrace the failure and learn from each and everyone's mistake. With that being said, verbal communication is way easier to have because we can able to express our feelings in different ways. The non-verbal communication about the video was the speaker provide visual aids at her presentation and by simply doing it she doesn't have to explain further about it. She also made some posture/gesture and eye contact to the audience that makes the video a valid "non-verbal communication". Interestingly, most people don’t realize that non-verbal communication is a huge part of our daily lives, hence, it’s not something we should ignore. Non-verbal communication is how we communicate with each other on a subconscious and intuitive level. How someone walks, talks, gestures, and looks can be the difference between being loved and hated.

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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!

It is quite inspiring especially for the new teachers.

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.

Super Cool Video! I did one smart move which is came to this kind of videos and also started using an iPhone app called "LIFE IS" by hanumappa and with the help of that I started relishing my Good events of Life and started Learning from Bad Events of Life. Just by doing that , my Negativism has dropped to Zero and I feel more powerful and equipped now!

@leconfidant I am currently a teacher in Thailand and their ideas of Education is similar to how you describe Japan, I work every day to get my students to realize exactly what this woman is saying! Get up, get out, get curious, get interested in something and learn for real! That saddest thing in the world is to see a child completely uninterested in life...

I guess an ideal system of education will revolve around relevant individualized and team projects, where the tools you use gain relevance as you employ them in solving a project/problem relevant to you. The teacher is there to guide the learning. Students judge and constructively criticize each other work. Learning is judged by the mastery of the current level and as you gain experience you level up. From padawan to Yoda.

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....................

If only we had more like her...

I've always said allowing students to think about their learning and participate outside of the traditional learning frame will ease students into the social society and intellectual realm of continuous learning.

Nice speech about what is already being done around the world....

i love this. you have to actually experience and apply your mistakes to the real world to actually learn from them

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

i wish she could have been my teacher when i was in school.

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

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

we want such teachers and such educational system in India...its high time now...

@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.

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

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.

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

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

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

This is standard practice in most schools here in new Zealand

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

@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)

yes! THAT'S IT! I'm taking this and showing it to my teachers

Thank you Diane Laufenberg!

I think giving the opportunity to show that mistakes can happen, will prepare the kids for the real life. If a child never fail during his learning age, once he encounters situations in real life where he has to do things on his own and fail, he will start to blame others. Failing will come as shock.

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.

How enthusiastic, energetic and positive she is. Congratulations on your work, teacher! 🎓

Good job :) Some unbelievable things that she learned from teaching, that's awesome!

@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.

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.

@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.

Where was she when i was growing up?

well said if only i was in a school system like this

@BroBroDude so was winston churchill?

amazing! well said!

yes,great talk

Great talk.

@ldlemos your statement intrigues me, care to elaborate?

@NextToNothing123 Actually, you could do a dissertation on Stupidity and Immaturity by observing from most RU-vid comments.

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

@MusicsAngelica yeah, i was being sarcastic in a joking way. :)) lol. but thanks for your input. you have a good point. :)

@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 ;-)

Wow! Couldn't agree more!

Suggestions: Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana

Loved this video!

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

The premise of experiential learning is great. But Diana is confusing application/feedback with assessment. It's fully possible to learn through experiential activity, and then then write and pass a standardized assessment. Educators do need to put learners through an assessment to verify they've met the course objectives.

We share a last name as well as home state but besides that, I agree with you that kids aren't being taught effectively enough.

If only all teachers were this aware.

5:05 9:20

every FAIL is a WIN.

LOVE! 100%

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

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.

it's in your head ! ...

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?

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

Love it!

@lumpfish99 Nah, not hate. Just pointing out the flaws in your logic.

Awesome!!

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

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

@anurre5 Google "A Mathematician's Lament".

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

5:42

Really? This was an outrageously simple assignment. I think that if you have an issue with this, you shouldn't be at a University level.

This talk was a mixed bag.

@anurre5 lol what about root4?

great talk

smartest school teacher on the planet

What a great subject for TEDwomen LOL!

@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.

awe!!!

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

Might help me in cod