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The Gift that Keeps on Giving: In B's Words
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The Gift that Keeps on Giving. Follow me on this wonderful and sometimes rocky adventure of raising a gifted child. This page is for stories about B. This can take form of a story, joke, phrases, vocabulary or anything I just think makes B an amazing kid to have around. I could probably do three of these a day but I'll try and keep it to what I feel is quintessential B. I went to curriculum night and this was hanging on a wall. They had to write about teamwork. In an annoyed voice. We were in the car and...
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The Gift that Keeps on Giving: 4th Grade Math?
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The Gift that Keeps on Giving. Follow me on this wonderful and sometimes rocky adventure of raising a gifted child. Sunday, August 26, 2012. I wave my white flag. My son has these "problems of the week" due every Friday. This is his first one for the year. Can you solve it? Four people need to cross a bridge at night. The bridge is only strong enough to hold at most two people at once. Because it is night, a flashlight must be used for all crossings. How can you get everyone across in 17 minutes? Anyway,...
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So digital natives don’t exist? | The Savvy Technologist
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So digital natives don’t exist? So digital natives don’t exist? I was sitting in one of Ewan McIntosh. 8216;s sessions at BLC08. And couldn’t help noticing how much delight he took in disputing the digital native/digital immigrant distinction. The native/immigrant comparison may not be accurate (so Ewan says), but it sure is useful. I’ve used those terms many times since reading Prensky’s original article. Oh, I don’t know… how ’bout. Learning on a stick Minnesota. So digital natives don’t exist? I also ...
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Laptop Management in a Third Grade Classroom | Duh!
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So Far, So Fast: Reflection and Proposal. My Blackberry is Not Working →. January 18, 2011 · 8:52 pm. Laptop Management in a Third Grade Classroom. Q: Will kids misuse technology? Of course they will! Q: Is that a good reason to avoid using technology in the classroom? Kids will misuse technology in the same ways that they misuse anything else (and you can tell by my somewhat questionable use of quotation marks that I’m not even sure misuse is the right word, but that debate is for another post). This al...
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a gifted journey: September 2010
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Parenting gifted children can be a venture into unexpected, uncharted territory. A GT Field Journal: Observations, recommendations, rants and musings from along the way. Saturday, September 18, 2010. Apoxyomenos and the Lesson of Biomineralization. A friend sent me an email. She said she didn’t know who else she could tell, who else might not think she was being an "overprotective crazy parent". Part of me rises up in furious indignation at what she is going through. But at this point another part si...
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The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Numbers Riddle
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The Gift that Keeps on Giving. Follow me on this wonderful and sometimes rocky adventure of raising a gifted child. Wednesday, January 9, 2013. In the post before this one, I posted a homework word problem. This time, I am going to post a math "riddle" that my son did for extra credit. I didn't work out the math. But he told me the answer. And I hope it's the right one or.awkward. Go ahead, I'll wait while you try it. My tens digit is the 26. Prime minus 96,. But if you’re incapable of that,.
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a gifted journey: October 2010
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Parenting gifted children can be a venture into unexpected, uncharted territory. A GT Field Journal: Observations, recommendations, rants and musings from along the way. Friday, October 1, 2010. Sea-Change, Social Networking and Songs of the Deep. Full fathom five thy father lies:. Of his bones are coral made:. Those are pearls that were his eyes:. Nothing of him that doth fade. But doth suffer a sea-change. Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:. Ariel in The Tempest (I, ii).
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a gifted journey: September 2011
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Parenting gifted children can be a venture into unexpected, uncharted territory. A GT Field Journal: Observations, recommendations, rants and musings from along the way. Tuesday, September 20, 2011. John Hersey, The Child Buyer. NY, Bantam, 1960, ISBN 978-0-394-75698-1 (read online. I read a remarkable piece of speculative fiction last week. Although written in 1960 (before I was reading, or even born) and now out of print, I'm nevertheless surprised to never have heard of it before: The Child Buyer.
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a gifted journey: March 2011
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Parenting gifted children can be a venture into unexpected, uncharted territory. A GT Field Journal: Observations, recommendations, rants and musings from along the way. Friday, March 25, 2011. A Gifted Education "Elevator Pitch". Have an elevator pitch for gifted education? What if you suddenly have the (brief! Opportunity to speak with a key legislator, administrator, or perhaps skeptical educator or parent about gifted education ( note: actual elevator not required. What will you say? Each of these po...
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a gifted journey: October 2012
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Parenting gifted children can be a venture into unexpected, uncharted territory. A GT Field Journal: Observations, recommendations, rants and musings from along the way. Saturday, October 20, 2012. Giving with One Hand, Taking with the Other. The November/December 2012 issue of Scientific American Mind. Is a special issue focusing on the topic of Genius. In the article “Nurturing the Young Genius”, Subotnik, Olszewski-Kubilius and. Children should be supported as individual learners simply because they a...
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