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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 their head, – quickly learn to read and play music, – show creative improvisational talent, – enjoy composition, – live as though they …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2012/06/22/musically-gifted-tools-to-help-parent/
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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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2012/06/16/thinking-fast-and-slow-and-being-a-devils-advocate/
Do you actually sit down and set goals with your kids? Share your experiences! I’m big on goal setting. I have my own mission and goals I visit often, and so do my kids. I read and listen to leaders in education and 21st century businesses announce that our kids need to not merely have …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2012/06/08/summer-goals-and-portfolio-building/
For those who have been following the Grow a Generation blog, you may have noticed a deadline came and went. The book, Grow a Generation: Parenting in the 21st Century did not get published in time for the April 2012 deadline. Quietly, I went into the website and marketing brochures and switched the “upcoming” date …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2012/05/23/temporary-setback-or-epic-fail/
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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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2012/05/10/my-child-wants-to-design-video-games-part-three-develop-a-portfolio/
Added April 2014: I am pleased to announce the Grow a Generation Game Design Master series in Scratch Programming for kids as young as 8 and teens new to programming. Find out more. My fourteen year old took a game design class in his school this year, one semester long, that introduced him to Multi …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2012/05/03/my-child-wants-to-design-video-games-part-two-what-type-of-training-or-classes-should-they-take/
Tim Ferris’s recent blog “How to Build an App Empire: Can You Create The Next Instagram?” describes Chad Muerta’s story. Recovering from a car accident,Chad left his real estate job and started an app business from his iPhone. “In just over two years, I’ve created and sold three app companies that have generated millions in …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2012/04/26/my-child-wants-to-design-video-games-part-one-are-there-jobs-out-there/
Parents have always known what positive psychology (the study of what makes us happy) now reinforces: short term “extrinsic” rewards might make us joyful in the moment but they don’t lead to happiness. Happiness wells up from a sense of being fully alive, focused, and engaged in every moment; from a feeling of power, heroic …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2012/04/14/do-kids-who-play-video-games-really-have-an-evolutionary-advantage/
We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moment, under the most perfect conditions, under conditions of greatest courage. We enjoy and even thrill to the godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2012/04/05/a-worthy-quest-chip-conleys-peak-and-a-teenagers-pyramid-of-needs/
I was able to collaborate, as part of my work with the Beaver County STEM group, on a middle school student tour of Google’s Pittsburgh offices, the Pitt Engineering Prototype Lab, and the interesting work environment of Inventionland. Students from all around Beaver County, represented cyber schools, home schools, brick and mortars, and several local …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2012/03/18/21st-century-job-tour/
