Author Archives: Jacqueline Ashby

“The Badlands National Park tweets come after Trump’s administration enforced a social media blackout on the Environmental Protection Agency, barring EPA staff from publishing news releases, blog posts or social media updates. The rules also barred EPA staff from awarding new contracts or grants.” More here:
A Rogue National Park Is Tweeting Out Climate Change Facts in Defiance of Donald Trump

And here:
Trump administration tells EPA to cut climate page from website: sources

There are a whole lot of ways to be perfect, and not one of them is attained through punishment. ~ Ursula Le Guin

“Proust tells us that the sort of knowledge of the heart we need in this case cannot be given us by the sciences of psychology, or, indeed, by any sort of scientific use of intellect. Knowledge of the heart must come from the heart — from and in its pains and longings, its emotional responses.” ~ Martha Nussbaum via Brainpickings

Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) is offering a tuition-free, online EdX course:

Design in Healthcare: Using Patient Journey Mapping
Begins: February 8, 2017
Duration: 5 weeks
Register here.

Cheers!

j.

Gotta have LOVE.

Intellectual giftedness is different from creative giftedness. They are correlated, but they each have unique correlates, and sometimes even have *opposite* correlates. Students who are intellectually gifted tend to be excellent on-the-spot problem solvers and can absorb knowledge like a sponge, whereas creative giftedness can easily be misdiagnosed as ADHD because it’s correlated with impulsivity and distractibility– traits which eventually can lead to high creative achievement when coupled with other characteristics, but which in a *classroom environment* can be treated as a disability. This is very unfortunate, and I wish the gifted education literature would make the distinction between intellectual and creative giftedness more frequently, rather than just use the general label “gifted child” to refer to intellectual giftedness. Creatively gifted students deserve that label just as much as any other child when it comes to getting the resources they need to thrive. ~ Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman

A Great Experience.