After watching Caine's Arcade, I couldn't resist sharing this video with my 4th grade class. My classroom full of 9 year olds appreciated this video so much that they ask me for it on a daily basis. I have started to use it as an incentive and I play it towards the end of the day when time permits. I feel very excited that my fourth graders look up to this child and that they were able to point out to me how this child uses Stephen Covey's 7 Habits in his life and I pointed out to myself that in addition to using the 7 Habits that we practice on my school campus, that he also uses Design Thinking AND the Seven Survival Skills that Tony Wagner talks about in his book, The Global Achievement Gap.
Caine is definitely modeling perseverance, patience, and self-motivation along with creativity and being innovative. When he was interviewed, in a different video that I also watched with my students, he was asked how come he didn't quit when he realized that months were coming and going and yet he had no customers? He was asked, "What were you thinking? What did you want to get out of this?" and, with a wide grin, he replied something to the effect of "to be happy!" Immediately my students and I made the connection to the other video, "Hackschooling makes me happy: Logan LaPlante" where Logan emphasizes the importance of being happy in life as he answers the question, "what do you want to be when you grow up?" and he responds, "to be happy". My students are receiving the message of how important it is to be happy and make it a goal and that getting there will be a lot easier if you embrace Stephen Covey's 7 Habits, and I empower them with the Seven Survival Skills Tony Wagner outlines for us in this book The Global Achievement Gap.
I am grateful that I watched this video so that I can share it with my students and they can see a real life situation where a kid, their own age, had a goal and for many months it was not fulfilled, but he remained calm throughout it all and eventually it happened. I guess the old "if you build it, they will come" is true!!!
Caine is definitely modeling perseverance, patience, and self-motivation along with creativity and being innovative. When he was interviewed, in a different video that I also watched with my students, he was asked how come he didn't quit when he realized that months were coming and going and yet he had no customers? He was asked, "What were you thinking? What did you want to get out of this?" and, with a wide grin, he replied something to the effect of "to be happy!" Immediately my students and I made the connection to the other video, "Hackschooling makes me happy: Logan LaPlante" where Logan emphasizes the importance of being happy in life as he answers the question, "what do you want to be when you grow up?" and he responds, "to be happy". My students are receiving the message of how important it is to be happy and make it a goal and that getting there will be a lot easier if you embrace Stephen Covey's 7 Habits, and I empower them with the Seven Survival Skills Tony Wagner outlines for us in this book The Global Achievement Gap.
I am grateful that I watched this video so that I can share it with my students and they can see a real life situation where a kid, their own age, had a goal and for many months it was not fulfilled, but he remained calm throughout it all and eventually it happened. I guess the old "if you build it, they will come" is true!!!