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. …
Category: STEM education
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Feb 15
Surprising New Resources Rising Up in Gifted Education
A friend, a phenomenal mom who helps provide her family a safe and loving home, who drives her kids from martial arts to sports to scouts to dance to Church, who volunteers alongside them with the handicapped and the poor, recently returned from a parent conference for her daughter. The school apologized they didn’t recognize …
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Sep 29
Leadership: Can Girls Rise to the Challenge?
I pulled out all my favorite books on leadership in the process of co-authoring the new What Do You Mean I’m in Charge? Leadership Skills for Teens. Setting a good example, I checked over the last ten years of best sellers and the books being ordered by professors in graduate schools of leadership. It wasn’t …
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Sep 15
Leadership: Opportunities Needed!
Tuesday night over forty people gathered in a Community College classroom focused on how the FIRST series of robotics competitions can empower our children to develop 21st century skills. Co-presenting with me were five area young people experienced with FIRST robotics, Katrina, a 7th grader who had been competing with the FIRST Lego League …
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Aug 25
Teaching Innovation
Innovation is an essential skill for the 21st century. Can it be taught? Absolutely! Skills are taught through modeling (that is surrounding the student with effective models and examples), by opportunities to practice the skill (project based learning), and by feedback that helps them internalize the changes they need to make to improve their practice …
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Aug 16
London Riots and FIRST Robotics
I watched video footage of the London riots dismayed by images of young people striking out with such violent fear of the future and utter disregard for the property of others. No one explanation suffices. One writer, picking up on tweets and social media posts, claimed these teens and young adults are frustrated by unemployment …
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Aug 08
Imagineers and STEM Education
“We are not preparing children for the world we have lived in but for a future that we can barely imagine.” Gordon Brown, former dean of the MIT EngineeringSchool. Jeff Jarvis, author of What Would Google Do?, differentiates between a politically conservative attitude of scarcity and ‘can’t do’ and an innovative engineering attitude of abundance and …
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Aug 01
The Possible’s Slow Fuse Lit by Imagination
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942 Do you consider yourself an innovator? One component is creativity, thinking up novel and unique ideas. We are far from unraveling the complexity of imagination, …
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Jul 26
Do I really want an innovative kid?
Innovation can be scary. Juan Enriquez in his February 2009 TED Talk describes the three contemporary fields of innovation: microbes, tissues and robots. In the area of microbes, we now have programmable cells where we can insert DNA “snipets” and have it boot up as a different species (check out the 2010 International Genetically Engineered Machine …
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