₿HS008: A Parenting Resource “The Learning Game”
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Want to develop anti-fragile kids? In this episode Tali and Scott deep dive the parenting book “The Learning Game” by Ana Lorena Fábrega. The author is a former school teacher inspired to share positive alternatives to our institutionalized systems.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN:
- Context of things wrong with current school systems
- Prussian origins and the need for people who would comply as soldiers
- Current system
- focuses on punishing failure and making it something to fear and avoid
- little time for free play
- Unintended incentives for test taking for administrators, teacher and students
- Overprotection environment creates risk-adverse people
- Disagreeing with the “myth of the learning style”
- Developing a love of learning
- Exposing kids to situation and problems they have to solve for themselves
- Gamification is NOT point-ification
- The precise video game formula of getting people to stay in the game
- Scott and Tali’s different takeaways from video games
- Failure is okay … if you don’t do well, you just try again
- Montessori teaching method lets the experience give children feedback
- Importance of having skin in the game – for parents and kids
- Developing kids who are anti-fragile
- Let kids experience moderate levels of stress
- Working with shy kids
- Learning social skills is critical growing up
- Being okay with rejection
- Dangers of the trend of people blaming others for microaggressions
- Character development is critical and needs to be deliberate
- Range of knowledge versus specific knowledge
- Knowing how to solve problems is more important than memorizing facts
- Thinking in bets
- People have to be able to deal with ambiguity to be successful today
- Current system over-relies on standardized tests
- Memory palace as a life skill
- Memorize less but analyze more
