Children can and do change the world. They recognize injustice, they experience fear and anger. The father of the Buddha tried to protect him from all suffering, injustice, and anguish. He created a beautiful bubble for him, a bubble of plenty of sweet food, no harsh words, no sickness, no poverty, and no loss. The …
Category Archive: Gifted Education
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Aug 19
Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World
USA Today calls Tony Wagner’s latest book “A road map for parents who want to sculpt their children into innovative thinkers.” I couldn’t agree more. Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World focuses on what we must do differently, as parents and educators, in a globalized and technologically altered world …
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Aug 07
Libraries: The Start of Math and Science Queries
A friend wrote and asked last week: “My grandchild will turn 6 in September. Do you know of any game or book for her age to get the math and science query started? She starts Kindergarten late August.” (thanks Anna Mae!) Here are my ideas… Do you have others? 1) Books! So important. As an …
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Aug 03
Curiosity for Curiosity
I just finished five fantastic mornings with some brilliant hardworking middle schoolers, CMU Robotics Academy Curriculum on Robotics Engineering, seven Mindstorm robots, and five robot challenges. Life is good. Thank you to CCBC and the Beaver County STEM for sponsoring and encouraging such a great week, but most of all thank you to the parents willing to …
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Aug 01
Books that promote STEM learning
A friend wrote and asked last week: “My grandchild will turn 6 in September. Do you know of any game or book for her age to get the math and science query started? She starts Kindergarten late August.” Here are my ideas… Do you have others? 1) Books! So important. As an author, I appreciate …
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Jul 05
Music/STEM Careers
Preparing our kids for the 21st century involves exciting them about STEM education and making sure they are literate in science, technology, engineering and math. Many are asking that we put an “A” for the Arts into STEM education, making STEAM education the focus of 21st century learning. That begs the question – does that …
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Jun 22
Musically Gifted: Tools to Help Parent
Special thanks to Ruth Catchen, Tracy Martin, Dr. Barry Bittman, Stephen Cantazarite, and Marisa Youngs as co-authors and contributors to this week’s blog. Do you believe your child is musically gifted? They may - think in terms of chords or harmony, - look at numerous lines of music on a page and hear it in …
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Jun 16
Thinking Fast and Slow and Being a Devil’s Advocate
Daniel Kahneman, the psychologist who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics, wrote what is considered by the NY and LA Times, Economist, and Wall Street Journal, one of the best books of 2011. In Thinking Fast and Slow : He uses questions to understand the brain, for example: A bat and ball cost a …
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May 10
My Child Wants to Design Video Games Part Three: Develop a Portfolio
A unanimous sentiment of our the co-authors is “The biggest, most important piece of advise I can give anyone interested in making games for a living is to start making games now.” A college degree is important, but that degree has to accompanied by a portfolio to the interview question: What games have you worked …
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Feb 15
Is My Child Mathematically Gifted?
There is a field of experts in the area of mathematical abilities. They measure cognitive abilities to solve structured problems and constructive abilities to creativity problem solve. One person emerges that takes all this wonderful research and makes it available to the parent and the ordinary math teacher (not pursuing a Ph.D.): Dr. Ann Shoplik. …
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