The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Dr. Deborah Jonas
The Grit Files
English - September 03, 2022 21:59 - 23 minutes - 18 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEntrepreneurship Business entrepreneurship founders funding gritdaily innovation news startups Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: The Grit Files with Loralyn Mears & Guest Jeanelle Ditto
Dr. Deborah Jonas is the director of SRI's Center for Education Research & Innovation. Yes, she has access to astronauts and researchers of the highest caliber in the world - but she focuses her efforts on community learning. Deborah shared her thoughts on how we can better support students to "fail productively" and essentially to fail forward so that our next generation of leaders learn how to learn by working through problems versus being given the answers. She had some insights into how colleges are challenged by the breadth of the diversity and needs of the students they need to support today - and she surprised me with her shoe choice!