ROGATE - ups and downs of being gifted

Write a blog post in which you discuss the ups and downs of being gifted. Continue our conversation from today's class and draw upon past experiences to explain the advantages and disadvantages of being gifted and talented. Your post should be at least two paragraphs long.

GT Seminar 1 - Kindergarten debate

Sam Wang, an associate professor of molecular biology and neuroscience at Princeton and Sandra Aamodt, former editor in chief of Nature Neuroscience are the authors of Welcome to Your Child’s Brain: How the Mind Grows From Conception to College. They collaborated on an opinion piece titled "Delay Kindergarten at Your Child’s Peril" in this weekend's New York Times.

Read the piece and compare their findings to those of Malcolm Gladwell in chapter one of Outliers. Decide whose side you are on in terms of when a child should begin kindergarten. Do you agree with Gladwell's concept of "accumulative advantage" or do you agree with Wang and Aamodt's theory that starting school late can actually be a disadvantage? Write a blog post in which you discuss your opinion and support your claim with examples and specific references to both texts. As with all assignments, you may include outside research as well.

Welcome back!

Welcome back everyone! I hope you had a peaceful and inspiring summer. I am looking forward to a new year and a fresh start. See you soon!