conversations
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How Can We Best Help Talented Underrepresented Students?
The story of CAL Prep and how a decade of work and research on how to best educate talented underrepresented students is something educators can learn from.
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Lower Working Memory Linked to Higher Levels of Divergent Thinking
Historically, cognitive scientists have viewed strong working memory ability as one of the major key components of intelligence. However, recent studies indicate that *lower* working memory, not higher, can come with it’s own slew of cognitive advantages, including superior divergent thinking and creative abilities.
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What Drives Children’s Creativity?
Pens vs. paintbrushes. Compelling words vs vivid strokes. What underlies creativity for writers? For artists? Are there commonalities? How can parents and teachers nurture children’s creative expression? Here’s a candid dialogue between an author (Joanne Foster), and an artist (Rina Gottesman).
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Helping The Introverted And Talented Child
What the story of science prodigy Taylor Wilson and his family can teach us about the best ways to help gifted, talented, and introverted kids.
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What Is Holding Back America’s Brightest Students?
As a nation, how can we best empower our gifted kids? I talk with the editors of A Nation Empowered, a new volume reviewing the evidence on the academic and socio-emotional impact of educational acceleration for gifted kids.
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To succeed at school, children with ADHD need BOTH medication and non-medication treatments
Academic problems are extremely common in children with ADHD. An important question then is whether long-term academic functioning can improve with appropriate treatment. This new study provides important clues.
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What You Need To Know About Gifted Kids
For all parents of gifted children, be sure you communicate unconditional love for your child throughout his/her development. Love the child, not the gift. Reward your child for effort, dedication, and discipline, not their gifts. Be there for them throughout their development. Listen to their struggles and support their dreams.
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The Art of Computational Creativity
An edited transcript of a panel discussion on "Computational Creativity and the Arts" from the Fifth International Conference on Computational Creativity serves as the prompt to a discussion of meta-level issues in the field of computational creativity.
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How Much Do You Actually Reveal On Social Media?
A conversation with OkCupid co-founder Christian Rudder, author of Dataclysm.
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What Do We Know About Human Intelligence?
What do we know about the science of human intelligence? Douglas Detterman, emeritus professor at Case Western Reserve University, shares what he has learned from decades of working in this field.
