Failure and Learning...

After watching Diana Laufenberg's talk about what learning means I believe failure has everything to do with learning. When you think about success stories the majority of these stories have to do with failure and overcoming adversities. For example, Steve Jobs was a college dropout that had a vision that seemed far beyond his time. He was constantly rejected but ended up being one of the creators of Apple. The importance of his story and every other successful innovator is that they all experienced failure at one point yet learned from it. This is a vital concept to teach our students especially since they have been taught to believe that their is only one right answer. Teachers need to expose students to failure and teach them to understand that failure is a part of the learning process.