Summary of Productive Failure | Manu Kapur | TEDxLugano

00:00:00 - 00:15:00

Manu Kapur discusses the importance of failure in education, and how it can be used to benefit students. He then offers two methods for teaching, direct instruction and productive failure, and explains the research behind their effectiveness. Kapur concludes by discussing how to choose the best method for a given situation.

• 00:00:00 In his talk, Manu Kapur discusses how failure can be a powerful teacher, and how we can design for it to be more productive. He also shares a bit of the science behind why failure can be beneficial. Kapur advises that if we want to be successful, we should try to engage in failure and learn from it.
• 00:05:00 Manu Kapur discusses the role of failure in education, and how it can be used to benefit students. He then offers two methods for teaching, direct instruction and productive failure, and explains the research behind their effectiveness. Kapur concludes by discussing how to choose the best method for a given situation.
• 00:10:00 The video discusses the difference between productive failure and direct instruction, and how the former is better at developing basic knowledge. It also discusses the effects of failure on learning, and presents a hypothetical example of how a teacher would use productive failure to teach.
• 00:15:00 In this TEDxLugano talk, Manu Kapur discusses the importance of creativity and learning to fail. He argues that without failure, we will not learn and become creative. He provides examples of how creativity comes from playing with toys, and urges attendees to learn to fail in order to be more successful.