Exploring Educational Psychology

I've been learning about a key concept in the science of learning and motivation, made famous by the popular psychologist, Angela Duckworth.   It's been sobering to learn about. I've always been the type of person who could not settle on a single goal. There were always so many interesting things to pursue and explore! As was explained in my class, sometimes this is legitimate. Everyone needs to go through a journey of discovery, which may involve looking into many different subject areas and path without a coherent thread linking them altogether. Maybe you want to be a doctor. The next morning you decide to be a musician. The next, it's engineering.     I actually did know someone who pursued both music and medicine successfully and simultaneously. I wondered whether this was something that she sat down and carefully planned out, drawing out a map of goals order in a hierarchical way. Does everyone who is successful create a structured, disciplined pursuit? Or do some ...

As someone who has discovered many digital solutions for my own executive functioning issues (my ability to plan ahead, remember tasks, organize myself in a coherent and consistent way, recognize and properly calculate the time things take), I have developed a deep appreciation for the power that machines have to support and improve our lives. It took me a long time and a lot of struggle, but once I got the hang of tools like Calendar, digital alarm clocks, Pomodoro (a digital timer that breaks work into chunks), Excel, Trello (project management software), and Tiimo (personal time-management and planning software for neurodiverse people) to name a few, I began to feel confidence that if I set my mind to or committed to something, I couuld achieve it.  It's partly thanks to technology that I have aquired skills the average person might take for granted. When I worked in the school system, I saw the power of technology to help all sorts of children who didn't fit the norm.  For...