PLN week 7-2

For my second PLN of the 7th week I read and article by Dave titled "A Conversation about failure". This article was about how in our society today if someone who doesn't get something, is a different kind of learner, has difficulty reading or any kind of different way of doing things for them to understand it more they are considered slow, I think that is completely true. In this article he talks about how this guy named Henry Winkler who was the opening key note speaker for the New York State School Board's Association Conference in NY and how he gave this fantastic presentation about what it was like as a student to have this problem and was not able to live up to his potientals as a student and as a young boy.

I think it would be very difficult growing up with something like that, but also with all your peers constantly reminding you of you problem. It definitaly is one reason why some students do have low self asteem issues and why a lot of students don't live up to their potiential which is also what this article was about. There were two big questions that he had asked......

"How many of our children are dropping out of high school because they

feel unable."

"How many of our children are being made to fell unworthy!"

these questions can be easily answered, I think it is because of problems such
as dyslexia that cause children to drop out and to feel unworthy. So many people
don't see what is there, they see what is not there. They see the side of
struggle not the side of success, the negative not the positive and when someone
mentions and pays more attention to the negative it makes the negative to that
person more present. Knowing you can acheive something is a big step to
achieving it to believe you can do it, some people have people who think they
can't so they think that they can't.