Growth Mindset, Academic Basics, and Academic Integrity

Hello fellow classmates!...and Taylor, just "Hi" to you 💬

*(LOL, I am playing. I just found out that you are the one grading our posts) 😁😆I just figured out about the emoji thing too^

I don't know about you guys, but this week went by kind of fast. It may be because we did't get to finish up our assignments the two days we were there. Regardless of what it may have been, our class dissuasion focused mainly on fixed/ growth mindset and academic integrity.

I personally enjoyed learning about the fixed and growth mindset portion of the tasks given. There were two videos that really spoke to me: Growth Mindset Introduction: What it is, How it Works, Why it Matters and Neuroplasticity (links within titles). Most people would like to believe that they have a growth mindset because having a fixed one may be seen as ignorant in a way. For instance, if a person were to avoid a math class because they may want to take the test at a later time, another person may view that action as ignorant because how else would that person learn from their mistakes?" While this example may not be very strong, I'm sure you get what I mean.

In the video, Growth Mindset Introduction: What it is, How it Works, Why it Matters, Trevor Regan made great points about growth and fixed mindset. If you aren't sure about what a fixed/ growth mindset you can view this chart that will give you a visual of what it is: Growth Mindset and Fixed Mindset Comparison.pdf (link within name). Regan described a growth mindset for a person as, "They believe that you are in control of your abilities. Skills are built. You can learn and grow." He also refers to a person with a fix mindset as, "They believe that you are not in control of your abilities. Skills are born. You can't learn and grow." With that being said, it is evident that having a growth mindset can help with many situations especially in learning. For one who is trying to go from a fixed to a growth mindset there are two things you need to focus on: your belief and focus. There are also key ingredients in the growth mindset such as effort, challenges, mistakes, and feedback. If you reference the chart mentioned above you can see that if a person does not have the belief that they can do or overcome something in one of the key ingredients, then they are most likely to have a fixed mindset. A person's focus can also determine if they can or cannot do something; if a person allows their focus to be negative (what they can't do or may not know how to do so its hard to do so) then they will avoid or not know how to handle things like feed back or other challenges.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75GFzikmRY0&feature=youtu.be

On the bright side, Regan stated, "You're not just one or the other, it's a spectrum; different times on different days in different situations, you might be in a growth while other times you might be in a fixed." Everyone has their day and own situation; however, there is no longer an excuse on why you can't fix it. Regan stated, "Now that you understand how it works and its characteristics, you can start to identify where you're at on the spectrum and more specifically the cause of that mindset. Is it the belief or is it the focus?" Not to mention that another video was mentioned above: Neuroplasticity. If you haven't already watch the the video, neuroplasticity is **"the process of rewiring (thinking) your brain by forming new connections and weakening new ones this is neuroplasticity in action." (**This is a statement reworded from the video to fix the context of my paragraph information provided by Sentis**) Even if a person had a thought about something and thought that way for a long time, they could too change the way they think by practicing otherwise.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r3lvV4tu0iVSi-lfLqFRbsIRlafvfhtv/view

Now...to what i like to call the juicy bit of the assignment, the topic of cheating. DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN!!!!!! We all know the reading about academic integrity and its code of conduct, and if you didn't, SHAME ON YOU because I didn't read the whole thing either. It was too long, but I'm kidding... of course. I definitely read allllllllllll 60 pages of it, righhhhttt. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Anyway, in class we were able to share our definition about cheating and what it means. Pretty much all of us expect one thought about it in an academic way, including my table partner Avery Phillips. Yet, we weren't able to get into grand detail about it all; the article: Why (Almost) All of Us Cheat and Steal (link within article title) gives us insight on to why people do what they do or don't under the topic of cheating or stealing. It is obvious that one thing was for sure: the ability to rationalize our decisions. I hope that this is a topic that we can cover in class because it is quite an interesting one.

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I hate to keep you all for so long after all that reading before getting here, but I must say that the growth and fixed mindset concept is something that I strongly want to work on. I want to be able to think differently when d=faced with any sort of adversity. I might not have touched on academic integrity much and that's only because we are in the honors program, and I expect better of us, "pressure", not because I don't know what I'm talking about... hahaha..All jokes aside, I hope that as I continue my journey in college, I will get better at having a growth mindset to help me become more of a well rounded person.