{"id":79,"date":"2022-07-05T00:27:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T00:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wildlives.io\/?p=79"},"modified":"2022-07-05T01:11:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T01:11:11","slug":"do-adults-fail-better-than-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wildlives.world\/index.php\/2022\/07\/05\/do-adults-fail-better-than-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Adults Fail Better Than Children?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"July 5, 2022\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yR3HmdVlljQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Video by the Dreamspace Story Lab team<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today is day 2 of the adults class. \u00a0Yesterday, I had my students go around their study area outside of Dreamspace, look at tracks and sign, and make a guess for where they thought an animal might visit in the night. \u00a0They put up cameras looking at the site to check their guesses.<\/p>\n<p>Most of them will come in today and find nothing on their cameras. \u00a0It\u2019s not their fault \u2014 they could have done everything right \u2014 they could have found the exact spot where an animal passed through the night before, but because of the weird new camera on its trail or the human scent lying around, the animal pass nearby, think that something is\u00a0<em>off<\/em> about this run and choose another path. \u00a0Or maybe it was just hanging out somewhere else entirely last night. \u00a0We only had one night\u2019s opportunity to get things right, and odds are that it won\u2019t work out for many of the students.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m curious how that not-working-out is going to affect them. \u00a0Failures happen\u00a0<em>for sure <\/em>when you\u2019re trying to predict wild animal behavior, but there\u2019s nothing like an early success when you\u2019re trying something new and hard. \u00a0I\u2019m very curious to see how the students respond to failure today, and how to they\u2019ll get past the initial frustration. \u00a0Adults and children also handle failure in different ways \u2014 no matter how you slice it, failure is a constant partner to learning. \u00a0Failure hits some learners harder than others, particularly people who feel competitive or like they must always get the right answer. \u00a0Both adults and kids have those tendencies, but kids generally have a built-in tolerance of failure, which helps them learn\u00a0<em>despite\u00a0<\/em>inconsistent instruction, difficult learning environments, and just regular old difficult material. \u00a0I\u2019m curious how each class will get past their initial failures.<\/p>\n<p>There are some ways I can mitigate failures in the way I set up the class, which I should probably formalize as I start trying out more failure-prone variants of the class like the accelerated, 6-day version. \u00a0Off the top of my head, the best thing I can probably do is to frame the class as a collaborative activity rather than a competitive one, where any group\u2019s videos are fair game for the whole class to work with, rather than requiring that each group find their own story. \u00a0That way, a success in anyone\u2019s group is a success for the whole class, and helps cushion out any one group\u2019s bad luck.<\/p>\n<p>Another fascinating day in the classroom!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video by the Dreamspace Story Lab team Today is day 2 of the adults class. \u00a0Yesterday, I had my students go around their study area outside of Dreamspace, look at tracks and sign, and make a guess for where they thought an animal might visit in the night. \u00a0They put up cameras looking at the&hellip; 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