Last week I was interviewed by Christy Crawford, a technology teacher at Bronx Community Charter School and a Top Teaching Blogger at Scholastic.com. See Christy's blog here:
Many of us have heard about Malcolm Gladwell’s “10,000 hour rule”, which indicates that to become an expert at something, one must put in ten-thousand hours of practice. Gladwell's rule derives from a 1992 paper published by a psychologist from Florida State University named Anders Ericsson. While trying to uncover what factors mattered most for success, Ericsson and his team studied violin students in Germany. They figured out that what distinguished those who rose to the top of their class and those who didn’t was--in large part--the amount of time those students spent practicing. From this research, Gladwell extrapolated that the magic number for becoming an expert was 10,000 hours of
