{"id":851,"date":"2015-07-01T10:30:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T17:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/awcaucus\/?p=851"},"modified":"2022-11-14T11:36:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T19:36:31","slug":"100-percent-is-overrated-james-hamlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/awcaucus\/2015\/07\/01\/100-percent-is-overrated-james-hamlin\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;100 Percent Is Overrated&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;100 Percent Is Overrated,&#8221;<\/strong> James Hamlin, June 30, 2015, the\u00a0<em>Atlantic<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2015\/06\/the-s-word\/397205\/\">http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2015\/06\/the-s-word\/397205\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[James Hamlin reports on a talk by Jo Boaler, professor of mathematics education at Stanford University, at the Aspen Ideas Festival. \u00a0Boaler suggests that telling children they are &#8220;smart,&#8221; instead of that they did well, makes them risk-averse: \u00a0making mistakes would mean they are not &#8220;smart&#8221; instead of that they have a chance to learn. \u00a0Boaler believes that high-achieving girls are particularly affected by this &#8220;fixed-mindset thinking,&#8221; which makes them especially vulnerable to societal messages that girls will not be good at math and sciences.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;100 Percent Is Overrated,&#8221; James Hamlin, June 30, 2015, the\u00a0Atlantic http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2015\/06\/the-s-word\/397205\/ [James Hamlin reports on a talk by Jo Boaler, professor of mathematics education at Stanford University, at the Aspen Ideas Festival. \u00a0Boaler suggests that telling children they are &#8220;smart,&#8221; instead of that they did well, makes them risk-averse: \u00a0making mistakes would mean they are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/awcaucus\/2015\/07\/01\/100-percent-is-overrated-james-hamlin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;100 Percent Is Overrated&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1016,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,35,38],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-of-interest","tag-careers","tag-science","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/awcaucus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/awcaucus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/awcaucus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/awcaucus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1016"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/awcaucus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/awcaucus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1112,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/awcaucus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/1112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/awcaucus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/awcaucus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/awcaucus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}