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ANGELA LEE DUCKWORTH
When I was 27 years old, I left a very demanding job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding: teaching. I went to teach seventh graders math in the New York City public schools. And like any teacher, I made quizzes and tests. I gave out homework assignments. When the work came back, I calculated grades.

What struck me was that I.Q. was not the only difference between my best and my worst students. Some of my strongest performers did not have stratospheric I.Q. scores. Some of my smartest kids weren't doing so well.

And that got me thinking. The kinds of things you need to learn in seventh grade math, sure, they're hard: ratios, decimals, the area of a parallelogram. But these concepts are not impossible, and I was firmly convinced that every one of my students could learn the material if they worked hard and long enough.

After several more years of teaching, I came to the conclusion that what we need in education is a much better understanding of students and learning from a motivational perspective, from a psychological perspective. In education, the one thing we know how to measure best is I.Q., but what if doing well in school and in life depends on much more than your ability to learn quickly and easily?

So I left the classroom, and I went to graduate school to become a psychologist. I started studying kids and adults in all kinds of super challenging settings, and in every study my question was, who is successful here and why? My research team and I went to West Point Military Academy. We tried to predict which cadets would stay in military training and which would drop out. We went to the National Spelling Bee and tried to predict which children would advance farthest in competition. We studied rookie teachers working in really tough neighborhoods, asking which teachers are still going to be here in teaching by the end of the school year, and of those, who will be the most effective at improving learning outcomes for their students? We partnered with private companies, asking, which of these salespeople is going to keep their jobs? And who's going to earn the most money? In all those very different contexts, one characteristic emerged as a significant predictor of success. And it wasn't social intelligence. It wasn't good looks, physical health, and it wasn't I.Q. It was grit.

Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years, and working really hard to make that future a reality. Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.

A few years ago, I started studying grit in the Chicago public schools. I asked thousands of high school juniors to take grit questionnaires, and then waited around more than a year to see who would graduate. Turns out that grittier kids were significantly more likely to graduate, even when I matched them on every characteristic I could measure, things like family income, standardized achievement test scores, even how safe kids felt when they were at school. So it's not just at West Point or the National Spelling Bee that grit matters. It's also in school, especially for kids at risk for dropping out. To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it. Every day, parents and teachers ask me, "How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?" The honest answer is, I don't know. (Laughter) What I do know is that talent doesn't make you gritty. Our data show very clearly that there are many talented individuals who simply do not follow through on their commitments. In fact, in our data, grit is usually unrelated or even inversely related to measures of talent.

So far, the best idea I've heard about building grit in kids is something called "growth mindset." This is an idea developed at Stanford University by Carol Dweck, and it is the belief that the ability to learn is not fixed, that it can change with your effort. Dr. Dweck has shown that when kids read and learn about the brain and how it changes and grows in response to challenge, they're much more likely to persevere when they fail, because they don't believe that failure is a permanent condition.

So growth mindset is a great idea for building grit. But we need more. And that's where I'm going to end my remarks, because that's where we are. That's the work that stands before us. We need to take our best ideas, our strongest intuitions, and we need to test them. We need to measure whether we've been successful, and we have to be willing to fail, to be wrong, to start over again with lessons learned.

In other words, we need to be gritty about getting our kids grittier.

Thank you. SOURCE:www.tedtalk.com

lordizak:
his name is Suarez I have the video.

You are right sir, Thomas Suarez, i Just decide to post the transcript here, so that youths can learn to be producers and not consumers alone.

've always had a fascination for computers and technology, and I made a few apps for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. I'd like to share a couple with you today. My first app was a unique fortune teller called Earth Fortune that would display different colors of earth depending on what your fortune was. My favorite and most successful app is Bustin Jieber, which is — (Laughter) — which is a Justin Bieber Whac-A-Mole. I created it because a lot of people at school disliked Justin Bieber a little bit, so I decided to make the app. So I went to work programming it, and I released it just before the holidays in 2010. A lot of people ask me, how did I make these? A lot of times it's because the person who asked the question wants to make an app also. A lot of kids these days like to play games, but now they want to make them, and it's difficult, because not many kids know where to go to find out how to make a program. I mean, for soccer, you could go to a soccer team. For violin, you could get lessons for a violin. But what if you want to make an app? And their parents, the kid's parents might have done some of these things when they were young, but not many parents have written apps. (Laughter) Where do you go to find out how to make an app? Well, this is how I approached it. This is what I did. First of all, I've been programming in multiple other programming languages to get the basics down, such as Python, C, Java, etc. And then Apple released the iPhone, and with it, the iPhone software development kit, and the software development kit is a suite of tools for creating and programming an iPhone app. This opened up a whole new world of possibilities for me, and after playing with the software development kit a little bit, I made a couple apps, I made some test apps. One of them happened to be Earth Fortune, and I was ready to put Earth Fortune on the App Store, and so I persuaded my parents to pay the 99 dollar fee to be able to put my apps on the App Store. They agreed, and now I have apps on the App Store. I've gotten a lot of interest and encouragement from my family, friends, teachers and even people at the Apple Store, and that's been a huge help to me. I've gotten a lot of inspiration from Steve Jobs, and I've started an app club at school, and a teacher at my school is kindly sponsoring my app club. Any student at my school can come and learn how to design an app. This is so I can share my experiences with others. There's these programs called the iPad Pilot Program, and some districts have them. I'm fortunate enough to be part of one. A big challenge is, how should the iPads be used, and what apps should we put on the iPads? So we're getting feedback from teachers at the school to see what kind of apps they'd like. When we design the app and we sell it, it will be free to local districts and other districts that we sell to, all the money from that will go into the local ed foundations. These days, students usually know a little bit more than teachers with the technology. (Laughter) So -- (Laughter) -- sorry -- (Laughter) -- so this is a resource to teachers, and educators should recognize this resource and make good use of it. I'd like to finish up by saying what I'd like to do in the future. First of all, I'd like to create more apps, more games. I'm working with a third party company to make an app. I'd like to get into Android programming and development, and I'd like to continue my app club, and find other ways for students to share knowledge with others. Thank you. (Applause). source:www.tedtalk.com

na whao! wetin person no go read dor NLnd

Janeify:


I'm suprised you commented.How i wish you'd keep it up

yeahhh, i will try

ONILA... she has the most prettiest facial scarification have ever seen.

Waiting for the counter thread.. Nlanders with handsome faces..so guyz let d filterin start, . ....b4 then, am adding Janeify she is a damsel

So u wrote all dis big grammar bcuz of one dead cat... and you refused to eat... You nid an experience similar to '' life of pie''

NLanders, stay awake and pay attention to your phone.
I got a call from U.I at 1:30pm for the invite to the departmental exam, Zoology to be precise, it is schedule for 13 dec, zoology lecture theatre, by 10am. Wish u all d best, remember just call , no mail, no msg.

zeepatoprick:
Who gives a shiiiiit!

Bros, no vex, i know say u be man u fan.

dis ur question get as e be o...but wat i knw be say anything u dey enjoy wella,always hv an immediate substitute...u understand

Janeify:
lol...no,it's just that i hate lying

Hmmmn, i believe u

Rafeal and wife kharla

Di maria and partner Jorgelina head home in lamborghini

Tyler blackett leaves with girlfriend.

Giggs sits in the car as his wife Stacey lies on his lap

still at the party, falcao poses with his pregnant wife Lorelei Taron.

sweettease:
I'm still beefing him since the last Arsenal game against man u

Don't beef d young man, Arsenal had their chances too..

wayne clean up nicely...i love wayne but not united

wayne rooney singing at manchester united christmas party today. later on the manchester united captain takes to the dance floor with his wife colleen.

Janeify:
I do number 3 alot...no,not alot

The first answer is true...bt on a second thought, u dont want to admit it...lol

9ja barbers shop no dey dull at all. You have those guys dat comes to talk trash abt football matches they didnt watch.

Some also comes to show of their new phone, you go see say dem dey ask for phone charger.

from experience, bad habits are contagious In barber shop, like sharing pictures of topless girls and videos, betting on unreasonable events, lieing about how many tertiary institution girls they have slept with. I just smile and listen to thier whack stories.

LadunaI:
One should never despair of mercy and grace of God and I believe my day is coming God willing.
No doubt, employer can only do what is expected of them; accepting graduate on their GIS account provided sure p properly match u with them online, if not their hands are tied and there is nothing they can do except sure p correct the anomaly that might b hindering the process.
if ur employer want u start work then ask him/her to help u out solving whatever might b causing delay on ur matching.

My friend am grateful to God for u. Despite the fact that u haven't bin matched properly, you still out here helping others. Better days are coming,the day of reckoning. keep up the good work. And puntersmind & Ask4gb , God bless you all.

Pls to all prospective interns, don't start working for any employer until you have been matched online, and your verification is completed. Some of them are so ignorant of the whole process, from d day of d fair 'd cheap labour dey sweet dia belle', and they always forget d process is not complete . Fight for ur stipend early , so that you won't labour in vain. Dats my 1kobo

Toluwani2:
@punstermind pls an pls i need ur help to be match i hv HND in acct i register since 2012 i base in abuja, although am disable are pple with disability part of dis scheme ? Pls sir i want to know so dat i won't just be waiting for nothing, i look forward to hear frm u. toluwani270@gmail.com God bless you sir.

Yes people who are physically challenged are included in the scheme. You would hav seen that from the registration. I am physically challenged too and i have bin matched to a firm. So it all depends on the employers, some are considerate, others dont care. Believe In yourself and trust God, learn new skills apart from what you study in school. I studied zoology, doing my service year i took training in ICT and other computer related area, and this computer aspect is the reason i got placement with the firm. Now i develop contents for their website and write scripts on different project proposal, at the same time am also learning a lot of things. Do you see their is no trace of zoology in what i do presently. So don't give up, tell them what you have to offer them and am sure the right employer will listen.

jutah:
I did not finish...and d easiest ones were the last 20 questions! Mehn, I'm so not happy right now

It is not easy my brother. Time was a factor, after answering 35 questions, i jumped to the end. I shaded 10 answers without reading the question. Na God's grace sure pass.

LadunaI:
Yeah you are right I heard a firm requesting civil engineer with none showing up.
I met my employer today and we try to do matching but having some problem. My details were submitted to him on 6 Nov with a button to resend a request to me but I haven't see any request I checked even my spam folder but see nothing.

so there's never a feedback to his page for Accept/Reject button. We were stucked now.

Eyah..may be you should try doing process over again, the online process. Beta still you could wait a little while, maybe it takes a little while before the request are delivered. There are great minds here, puntersmind especially can help out. I haven't even taking a glance at my employers GIS account.

dhope:
thanks for d insight so far? pls did employers come frm other states aside kwara during d internship fair? i just wanna know if it is possible to meet employers frm states other than state where d fair is being organised.

I don't think so, all the employers i met, had there firm within kwara state.

LadunaI:
Hello bro what do you mean by this? you mean at d fair in ilorin or what?

I hope u r gearing up to start work with ur employer today.

Yes i meant the fair in ilorin, i heard firms requesting for engineers several times.
Truly ,I met my employer today. I still have some few more days, i have to to finalise plans with my previous employer. How about u bro?

Psittacus:
Gate crashing was not allowed in ilorin. Your mail stating your invitation was the only way you could enter the venue. But at some instances entropy sets in, i couldn't recognise some faces. But to avoid any embarrassment i will say push your buttons well and wait for your invitation. Cos there are armed men..well armed with machine guns. At some point, i taught they invited BH.

Engineers had a filled day. Alot of them were hired. Who hired them? i don't know.

dhope:
pls for those who hav attended d fair b4,was gatecrashing allowed? then pls did u hear any employer calling engineering graduates lik mech and civil? i just wanna know because all i cud see here is employers frm schl and bank,ngo plus audit firm

Gate crashing was not allowed in ilorin. Your mail stating your invitation was the only way you could enter the venue. But at some instances entropy sets in, i couldn't recognise some faces. But to avoid any embarrassment i will say push your buttons well and wait for your invitation. Cos there are armed men..well armed with machine guns. At some point, i taught they invited BH.