ABSTRACT
People often use concepts such as motivation and engagement as keys to better education and as proxies for learning; as if being hyped about or engaged with something means that teachers' also learned something. People are all different and just as they may prefer different foods; they also may prefer different ways of learning. Marc Prensky introduced this term in 2001: the idea of a generation that has never lived without digital technologies and therefore has exceptional and unique characteristics that distinguish it from all generations with respect to thinking and learning. Jerome Bruner introduced discovery learning as a research-based instructional form in 1967. He assumed that it would be better for students to discover facts and the connections between them than to provide them as a teacher. Researchers found poor correlations between grit and learning performance and grit and remembering, while there are strong correlations between, for example, learning and cognitive ability (IQ), study habits, and skills.
