Change
Friday, March 27th, 2009 Posted in economics, news, opinion, politics, thought | No Comments »Let's talk change, folks. When I say change, I don't mean the forces in our own lives - I mean the political buzzword that's been adopted by supposed progressives nowadays. How about some word association? Be honest: what was the first ...
I’m Looking at You, Digg
Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in gender, news, opinion, personal, politics, thought | 3 Comments »This isn't so much a post as it is a short rant. About - what else? - the 2008 presidential race. I understand that after the last eight years, we're all starving for change. Us Web 2.0 people probably feel that ...
Gifted labeling: a force for good and evil, Part 2
Friday, October 12th, 2007 Posted in education, gifted, intelligence, opinion, personal, thought | 1 Comment »First of all, I'd like to announce my participation in Blog Action Day this coming Monday! On "Blog Action Day", October 15, thousands of bloggers will post about one topic - the environment - in many different ways. ...
Gifted labeling: a force for good and evil, Part 1
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 Posted in education, gifted, intelligence, opinion, thought | 2 Comments »When I started to write this, I realized that I wanted to say more than could fit in a single post. So, instead of trying to cram it in, I've divided it into two parts, the second of which ...
How to Prevent Another Leonardo da Vinci
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 Posted in education, intelligence, opinion, science, thought | 48 Comments »EDIT: This post has been chosen as a finalist in the 2007 Edublog Awards! Thank you to all its readers! :) Earlier today, a friend and former teacher of mine made a post (private on another blog, and therefore unlinkable) ...
The city, she loves me
Sunday, May 20th, 2007 Posted in canada, opinion, personal, quotes, thought, vancouver | 2 Comments »Since my cousin moved back to Vancouver from Manhattan, I've noticed that she has a strange, urban serendipity about her: every time she walks to a street corner, the light instantly changes in her favor. I'm not kidding about ...
…WTF? (+ politics)
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007 Posted in canada, education, news, opinion, personal, politics, quotes, thought | No Comments »I usually try to save my links until Saturday, but holy crap. BOSTON - An adjunct professor was fired after leading a classroom discussion about the Virginia Tech shootings in which he pointed a marker at some students and said "pow." ...
Some thoughts
Friday, April 20th, 2007 Posted in canada, news, opinion, thought | No Comments »Earlier this week, I was writing a post for my blog that should have gone up a while ago. Unfortunately, the time at which I was writing it was at the start of my lunch period on Monday, April 14. ...
The importance of the “rage to master”
Monday, March 26th, 2007 Posted in intelligence, opinion, thought | 1 Comment »The "rage to master" is one of the most important ideas in the study of talent and giftedness. The term was coined by Ellen Winner, I believe, in her 1996 book, Gifted Children: Myths and Realities. To paraphrase ...
Seen it, Heard it… Done the Homework
Monday, February 12th, 2007 Posted in education, opinion, thought | 3 Comments »I'm once again pushing aside the topics I want to cover (and I will - more about that later) for a current event - and I use that term very, very loosely here. The "current event" was actually a ...
