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"Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out."
Benjamin Franklin

FAIL = First Attempt In Learning!

Audri's Rube Goldberg Monster Trap - YouTube (role of failure in learning)

Teacher Notes

Have students write about a mistake they learned from during the week.
(This came from a chat on Twitter)

My students' homework when I gave a test back was to write the question and correct answer to each one that they got wrong. 

The shortest errors are always the best. (Charron)

Even the wisest of the wise may err. (Aeschylus)

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage.  You have to fail in order to practice being brave. (Mary Tyler Moore)

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. (Elbert Hubbard)

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything.

What Does Learning From Mistakes Do To Your Brain?

I Call Mulligan | Upside Down Education

Learning from Mistakes : The Frontal Cortex

How Failure Can Lead to Long-Lasting Knowledge | Special English | Learning English

STEM Students Must be Taught to Fail

My You Matter page - #youmatter

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." ~ Albert Einstein

To err and learn, is far better than never to err at all. 

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts."
Sir Winston Churchill

"I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." Michael Jordan

"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."
John Wooden

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."  James Joyce

Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes | Video on TED.com

Kathryn Schulz: On being wrong | Video on TED.com

We no longer value failure in learning
Colonel B's Corner

"We don't have failures here...we have learning experiences."

Fail better

Want Students to Succeed? Let Them Fail - Education - GOOD

Mistakes Improve Children's Learning  Psychology Today

BBC News - 'Failure week' at top girls' school to build resilience

Learning from Mistakes: Helping Kids See the Good Side of Getting Things Wrong

Adventures with the Lower Level: Failures, Mistakes and Other Learning Tools

Michael Jordan "Failure" Nike Commercial - YouTube

Why being wrong is good for you - CNN.com

The necessity of failure | Connected Principals

Getting up from a Fall | Learning is Growing

Fearless

Failure is an Option: Helping Students Learn from Mistakes

Let’s Talk About Failure – My Takeaways From Regina Dugan’s #TED Talk « techieMusings

iTeach: I learned by failing

Three Responses to Failure

5 Questions To Figure Out How Well You Manage Mistakes

9 Reasons Why Failure Is Not Fatal :: Articles :: The 99 Percent

How to learn from your mistakes « Scott Berkun

Make school a safe place for taking risks and making mistakes

The Role of Mistakes in the Classroom | Edutopia

The Nerdy Teacher: Too Big To Fail?

Connect with Kids : Weekly News Stories : "Living from the Inside Out...Mistakes Students Should Make"