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Anya Kamenetz: Can Technology Help Train Kids in Determination & Grit?
But we already know that character, persistence, and motivation are extremely important to students’ learning and success in life. And that’s enough to try to include these qualities in any technological interventions we do in classrooms. All the more so because technologically enabled, student-centered and student-driven learning seems to require an extra degree of self-motivation in order for students to do well.
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