Mistakes as a Part of Learning

Do your courses allow for the free-range thought and exploration that leads to ... mistakes being made—without penalty to the final learning outcome and quantitative assessment of the entire process?

Be inspired by Phil Plait as he explains how mistakes are integral to learning, discovery, and growth.

Phil Plait was on a Hubble Space Telescope team of astronomers who thought they may have captured the first direct photo of an exoplanet ever taken. But did the evidence actually support that? Follow along as Plait shows how science progresses -- through a robust amount of making and correcting errors. "The price of doing science is admitting when you're wrong, but the payoff is the best there is: knowledge and understanding," he says. (TED.com)