On Letting My Gifted Son Do His Own Thing
With the highly gifted child comes great responsibility. Here’s how I helped my son through his roughest time yet dealing with a mind so far ahead of his emotions.
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Why Math and Reading Skills Usually (But Don’t Always) Go Hand-In-Hand
In elementary school the kids in the “redbird” and “bluebird” reading groups tended to be grouped together for math too. Why is that? Why do math and reading ability go hand-in-hand? And why do some kids break this mold to excel in only one?
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Test Your Creativity With a Single Word
Massive data mining and Yale creativity research converge on a thin-slice test for creativity — and a powerful way to boost it.
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Study: Music Prodigies Beat Math Prodigies at Numbers; Art Prodigies are Awful at Shapes
For every prodigy, there’s a profile: distinct brain abilities help to make astounding performance possible.
Continue ReadingAdmission: Recognizing Missed Potential
Admission is a film that releases March 22, starring two of my favorite actors in the universe: Paul Rudd and Tina Fey. They really don’t need any introduction, especially for those of us who grew up with SNL and Judd Apatow films. And that’s likely a huge part of the thinking behind the film, because they are two of the best things about it.
Continue ReadingGizmo: The Tenth Intelligence?
Many people (especially teachers) are aware of the multiple intelligence theory developed by Howard Gardner: there are eight basic ways people learn, and a ninth is subject to debate. Verbal/Linguistic Mathematical/Logical Visual/Spatial Musical/Rhythmic Bodily/Kinesthetic Naturalist Interpersonal Intrapersonal (Existential) Now, this …
Continue ReadingExploring The Seven Different Intelligences
When I do school visits, one of the things kids seem most fascinated by is when I tell them there is more than one kind of smart. They are surprised to learn that there are, in fact, at least seven …
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