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LearnStorm Growth Mindset: Khan Academy's economics content creator on learning strategies
Google ClassroomListen to Melanie Fox, Khan Academy's economics content creator talk about how she got through one of her hardest classes in college. Melanie's story is part of the Growth Mindset Curriculum available with LearnStorm, a back-to-school program aimed at helping students start the school year strong. The growth mindset curriculum helps students take their own life experiences apply their learnings in the face of frustration, making mistakes and learning new things. For more information, visit https://learnstorm.khanacademy.org/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=desc.
Video transcript
- My name is Melanie Fox, I create the AP Macroeconomics
and AP Microeconomics content for Khan Academy. Well if you don't develop that mindset, you say, "I can't overcome this barrier," you've just made that barrier
permanent for yourself. So for me, because I
loved economics so much it was just a way of finding
a way around those barriers whether that was taking fewer classes to give myself more time to concentrate in the areas that I struggled with, taking classes in the summer where I could focus on
just one class at a time, that helped me a lot to
get past those barriers. The day I walked out of
my calculus one final exam and I knew that I had aced it and I don't think I had aced a
math class since fifth grade. And that was just euphoric, I remember... I can even remember the price of gasoline when I walked out of the
building after that exam because it was just such a
vivid memory of, I did it, I was finally able to overcome this. It's okay to struggle. It's probably better to
struggle than to not struggle because if you can get through
things very, very easily, when you hit that first barrier,
you don't know what to do, and it's good to have the
experience to have hit a barrier and find a way to push back that.