Myths and truths

There are many myths and truths about being gifted. One myth is that gifted children don't need help they will do fine on there own. I believe that this is one of the biggest myths of all. The truth is that Sometimes gifted children are so far ahead that they are bored with there work and will simply not want to do it because it seems pointless to them. This is where the teachers are needed to come in and help. The teachers need to challenge them and help them become even smarter rather than keeping them at the same level of knowledge that they came in to the year knowing. Another myth is that all children are gifted. This is a myth beCause although all children are good at something gifted children excel in multiple areas. The truth is that giftedchildren are experts in certain subjects compared to there fellow classmates. Often the gifted children come into the school year knowing part of the curriculum. For example this year in the geometry program here at my school I came into this year thinking I would be challenged but after the first two quizzes I realized that I a,ready knew much of the stuff we are working on. But in being gifted there are some downs. First of all one down part about being gifted Is that people expect so much out of you. For example my parents keep pushing me and pushing to do better and sometimes I feel like I am doing the best that I can. Also another down part is that just because your gifted some of the Students and even the teachers see you different and sometimes you just we to be like everyone else. Sorry I forgot to post it.

Accumulative advantage

I am on Wangs side. I am on his side because I believe that you should put your kids into kindergarten when they are supposed to. I,like Wang believe that the accumulative advantage isn't that great. It most likely would wear off before you go into first grade. Also if you hold a kindergarten kid back an extra year he will already know most of the material and he/she will become uninterested and not want to participate in class.He/sheWill be at the same place as the rest of his/her peers at the end of the year. because the teachers will teach the same curriculum to the whole class regardless of where the child is.

Last blog of the school year

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My favorite part of ROGATE class was the 20% project. I liked this the best becuase we got to chose whatever we wanted to learn about and learn a whole lot about it. It gives us lots of freedom and independence. My favorite project was again the 20% project because it gave us idependence and freedom. Blogs can be more effective because you can comment on blogpost and give people more ideas on the subject they wrote about. Yes i am taking this class next year. what i will miss most about middle school is my friends that are going to different schools. I dont have many questions about the highschool at all. My plans for the summer are togo to the beach and hang out with my friends.

kickstarter

The items that I would back on kickstarter would be remee. This cost $80 and is very cool because it lets you control your dreams.Another thing that I would pledge for is $250 towards a human powered helecopter i would pledge for this because it is a very advanced item meaning that it may advance the science that we know. Finally I would pledge the rest of my money towards Meet Roy this is a full scale robot

Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing is when bueinsess let people submit ideas or facts to their buisness and use their ideas for the buisness 's own good. An examples of crowsorcing are anwsers.com For anwser.com they let the people anwser frequently asked questions to their websites. Anwsers.com is a free service and is widley know throughout the untited states. Many people just ask random questions and have people answer them. http://answers.yahoo.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answers.com

20% tile

I think that using your time to learn about something you like for just 20 % of time is an excellent idea because many great ideas come from people who arent exactly looking for something specific and they find great things. For example during this time when they were working on this project A group of researchers from google won the noble peace prize beause they found the thinnest strongest metal in the world.

waste land....

The overall react to the film was that it was a very interesting film.I think that it really shows you how good that I have it and that whenever i want something because i want something, I can just think that what do people in Third world countries have. My opinion changed through the movie because at first i thought they were all dirty people and that they were all bad people. But i learned that they are good people but they are just unlucky. Vik Munez helped the people in many ways. He tought them that they can acheive anything if they just try. They can get out of the garbage dumps and have a better life.Yes,I believe that it is better to have an honest dob instead of a dihonest post because an honest job at least you can go to bed everynght knowing that you are trying and working honest work. Yes, the video did make me think how much garbage I make . I dont think about how much i make in a day but more like a year. I think that i might make close to 1,000 pounds of garbage. I dont think the video will make me change the way a that I dispose of garbeage because i am to lazy to actually do something different . That would require more work. I think that another area that could be touched with Vik Munez is some place out in africa where they have even less than the people in brazil.