I don't hide the fact that I'm not a big fan of public education.  In fact, one of the most important decisions I made in my life was when I decided I wasn't going to let school interfere with my education (or at least my love of learning).  I made this decision in the 8th grade when I got in trouble with two teachers for being too creative.  In 1980, during my last year of college, I worked as an undergraduate research assistant in the Department of Instructional Science at Brigham Young University.  I was able to experiment in a special class on learning and teaching during the fall semester.  The information presented in this webinar is based on what I learned in that class.

We've been taught that making mistakes makes us bad, but this isn't true.  Not only does everyone make mistakes, making mistakes is actually an important part of the learning process.