Jack White: “I was thinking about a time in high school when I turned my books in to the math teacher and said, ‘I refuse to learn from you anymore.’ The song is about asking questions. A lot of people are taught just to regurgitate information. People don’t care if you learn anymore. Opinion gets [...]
Oh my! Been looking up specifically visual-spatial thinking, and was shocked to find, in the descriptions I was reading, so much of not only my daughter but myself. I got these ‘aha’ moments, these moments of - ‘so that’s what it was all about’, ‘it all comes together now’. The Visual-Spatial Learner in School, by Betty [...]
http://www.nswagtc.org.au/ozgifted/conferences/SwordVisualSpatial.html Traditional teaching techniques are designed for auditory sequential learners. Concepts are introduced in a step-by-step fashion, practiced with drill and repetition, assessed under timed conditions, and then reviewed. This process is ideal for sequential learners whose learning progresses in a step-by-step manner from easy to difficult material. For visual spatial learners, concepts are rapidly [...]
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1952011,00.html Are you curious about its author’s childhood? Here is an excerpt from an interview with Tim Adams for the Observer, Nov 2006 – TA: When you look back on childhood now, does it seem like another life? RP: It was a strange life. You saw my IQ? [170 aged [...]
Murray Kaufman is a retired high-school science teacher and ardent activist. In the following video he describes how, as a child, he was held back in first grade for being left-handed. http://www.commonties.com/blog/2006/09/13/i-was-a-rebel/ “You know what I learned from that … to be very tough … and to do what you know is right … and to not give in to any authority [...]
Thank you Dr. Ratey, Dr. Damasio, Howard Gardner and Dr. Hallowell for your humanity. Psychiatry may be going overboard with all the labeling, but at least it’s looking like neurodiversity may be headed our way. NYTimes.com - May 9, 2004 – NEURODIVERSITY FOREVER – The Disability Movement Turns to Brains – By AMY HARMON - (my favourite excerpts) “What all [...]
Blogging. I’ve been yearning to do it for some time. Primarily to post and archive information about issues that matter a great deal to me. So I have all that info in one convenient place, to turn to and reflect on. And also to share that information and my thoughts with whoever is interested, whoever would like to comment. Issues that matter [...]