Exploring Passion, Creativity, and Intelligence
In this past Tuesday’s episode of Fox Broadcasting’s The New Girl (titled “TinFinity”), the lead character Jess (Zoey Deschanel) meets a handsome and gifted professional football player, Jax McTavish (Steve Howey). Jess is smitten by the charismatic man until she Read More …
My classmate in the Gifted and Talented doctoral program at the University of North Texas, Joe Russell, demonstrating his burger overexcitability. That man is not exaggerating his love for that burger.
A University of Canterbury (UC) study of top students has found many of them were not comfortable being identified as gifted and talented. The students in the UC survey said they understood that they needed to downplay any perceived abilities Read More …
Below find a trailer to The Philosophers, an upcoming film that might be of interest to the gifted community. The synopsis: At an international school in Jakarta, a brilliant but mysterious philosophy teacher challenges his class of twenty graduating seniors Read More …
I am a big fan of Jim Webb. Both he and Linda Silverman have made the greatest impression on me since I began my gifted studies, primarily because of their focus on the social and emotional needs of the gifted Read More …
Minnesota public radio’s Daily Circuit show featured a program on child prodigies last December. Featured guests included Andrew Solomon, the author of Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity and David Shenk, the author of The Genius Read More …
In what represents a potentially major venue to showcase the world of the gifted and talented, actor Jim Parsons, who plays Dr. Sheldon Cooper on CBS’ Big Bang Theory, is collaborating with Radical Media to executive produce a new television Read More …
I am currently taking a class on creativity for my doctoral program, and we had an interesting conversation last week concerning the challenge of defining creativity. Everybody has a differing opinion on how to define it, and the argument in Read More …
In 2011, at the National Association for Gifted Children’s annual conference in New Orleans, NAGC President Dr. Olszewski-Kubilius gave an address outlining a paradigm shift in the way in which the organization would approach the field moving forward. Giftedness, she told us, would no Read More …
Interesting story of a gifted mathematician from the early 20th Century. Take note of his initial scholastic underachievement, his single-minded focus on math, and his raw, natural talent. This story also demonstrates an example of the importance of mentors for Read More …