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Lisa McKee Extensions Ch. 7 The following links are to videos about child prodigies. This is something that intrigues me quite a bit since I teach an honors class (not that they are prodigies-though parents think otherwise). The video depicts children that have amazing talents and have been doing amazing things since they were around 18 months old. [] The following video is about child prodigies and what happens to some of them when they grow up. It was very interesting to see how some of them have gone on to release music albums and win dance awards.

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This is just a cartoon that brought a little giggle to me. This last video is actually a series of videos about a young girl named Danielle. She was quite small when she was found and taken from her home. This series takes us through some very graphic pictures but gives us a glimpse of her life then and now. Disturbing but incredible! []

Brad Smith

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This video is a great example of the mix between prodigy and expert. In the video, you can see Jordan has natural abilities and skills that are combined with close to a 1000 hours a year of practice and hundreds of hours playing. He is so good as a youth that he is one of the biggest recruits of private high __schools__. You, too, see Vygotskyan Theory of ZPD through the coaching and playing with older kids.

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The Noble Savage - This is a short video over the conflict of the idea of "The Noble Savage." I kind of agree with Rousseau's idea of the noble savage; however, history shows that the only way we will be able to retain the "noble savage" state is with freedom of education and innovation that can lead to a balance in resource allocation/distribution. Solve the problem of scarcity through education, R & D, and allocation might afford the noble savage ideology to continue to develop and grow. Happy thought:)

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Short powerpoint/video over the nature vs nurture debate...good intro for the topic in a classroom setting describing the impact of your bio and environmental influences in developing who we are as people.

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This video is a quick summary of the differences between assimilation and accomodation in/with our schemes of the world in which we live.

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Stephanie Green This video shows how a child grows and develops as they go thru Piaget's stages. In the first stage an object is hidden and the child will learn about object permance. That it is still there even if out of sight. During the third stage children can distingish volume in two objects and tell whether they have the same amount or different. The understand more of the world around them and how things work. They have become concrete thinkers.

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The way to teacher reading has quite a debate over the decades.The debate started with two different idea's one approach is whole-word method, the other is phonics. The whole word approach concentrates on using units of the word. Phonics teaches letter sounds correspondences. The school that I __work at__ they use both approaches in my mind because the __sight words__ are whole-words. They also teach phonics and I believe it is a great concept. Last year was the first year I was exposed to phonics and in Kindergarten it is mainly just the letter sounds, but know that I am in first grade phonics the students are __learning__ alot more about the sounds and their rulers. I think the biggest struggle I have found is coding. I am going to bring some of the materials we use daily in the classroom to share.

Rousseau's theory supported child-centered education and so did __Montessori__. I am curious to see what direction our education is going to go in the next five years. Charter schools are on the rise with public schools being pushed to teach for the test. I believe if I was a parent with a school-age child I would really struggle on where I believe would be the best place to send them. I came across a school that is child-centered and yet they meet the state standards. I am really curious how these students preform on standarized tests and also the real world.

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Gwynn:
This is the link to the video I mentioned in class--PBS series on the secret life of the brain. For some reason, I could not locate it on PBS, but did find it on youtube. It is all very interesting (includes the hemispherectomies we saw earlier), but the last segment (start about 36 minutes) is the one on dyslexia. []

Ty Merry

The link is a bit dated but interesting. It studies children's play, and how, even in fantasy, the children must conform to their own invented scenarios.It's interesting in the larger societal concept of how we, as adults, respond and conform to a social structure of invented, and sometimes arbitrary, rules and regulations that inform our sense of social cohesiveness. In addition, these rules help us self-regulate. Although, I have seen plenty of adults throw child-esque temper tantrums because of their inability to delay gratification. Watch from 1:00 through 1:50. []

The second video is an interesting test of differing immediate gratification. It's an updated test of The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment conducted in 1972. This fits within the context of our chapter due to it showing a development marker in children at age 4, the age in which children are more apt to wait for another marshmallow. It's ridiculously cute. []

The last video is about the group discussion technique called "think-pair-share"(TPS). As I was looking at Vygotsky's social processes online, I came across suggestions for the TPS. In a way, TPS is a confluence of Vygotsky's social environment and the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD). As the group of students think and then share their answers to a posed question, one peer (who has a bit more of a grasp on the information) can lead some conceptual assistance to his or her peer. Thoughts? Comments? []

Joe Dumas
This video is the last several minutes of a National Geographic documentary on feral children. The chapter mentions feral children, and also talks about nature vs. nurture and language development. The video shows that while feral children often have trouble with language, it is because they have dealt with intense human neglect/trauma before living in the wild and/or have mental handicaps, not directly from living in the wild. []

Ever since reading Blink in an early __undergrad__ psychology class I have been a fan of Malcolm Gladwell's work. His third book, //Outliers//, discusses the 10,000 hour rule for becoming an expert in something. He says that, with about 4 hours of practice a day, that translates to roughly ten years, matching the book's use of the ten-year rule. In the first two clips he explains how bands spend way more time than people realize working on their talents before producing great work. In the other clip Bill Gates responds to Gladwell's discussion of 10,000 hours, and adds that it takes true dedication and desire in order to reach that 10,000 hours.

Fleetwood __Mac__, Mozart (5:52) - []

Beatles (1:53) - []

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STEPHANIE HUBLER The following is an article that gives information on scaffolding with a sample lesson plan that contains a lot of scaffolding techniques. The lesson begins with activating background knowledge, which is very important for student success. The lesson then continues with a graphic organizer that highlights important information and helps to show the interrelationships among ideas. Next, they look at captions, headings, and subheadings in the text they are going to read which helps students organize the information. I think this is a great example for showing how to scaffold instruction. Although this lesson is geared towards EL, it would be beneficial for all teachers.

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10 Child Prodigies This video provides information on ten child prodigies and their accomplishments. Most of the prodigies are famous, although I haven’t heard of one or two of them. The video tells the person’s name, their area of expertise, what they accomplished as children, and their contributions to society. The ten prodigies are: Marie Curie, Jean Piaget, Felix Mendelsohn, John Von Neuman, Maria Agnes, Paul Erdos, William James Sidis, Blaise Pascal, Pablo Picasso, and Wolfgang Amadeus. Their accomplishments are quite amazing, for example, Sidis was attending Harvard at the age of 11, Amadeus had created three symphonies before the age of 12, and Erdos was probably the most prolific mathematician of all time!

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 * Evelynn Lape**


 * Title**: Piaget: Why teach this stuff?
 * Description**: a blog by someone of unknown qualifications giving his reasons to why Piaget should not be taught. I though it was interesting...


 * Short excerpt from the link**: How did he get it so wrong? Well, like Freud, he was no scientist. First, he used his own three children (or others from wealthy, professional families) and not objective or multiple observers to eliminate observational bias. Secondly, he often repeated a statement if the child’s answer did not conform to his experimental expectation.. Thirdly, the data and analysis lacked rigour, making most of his supposed studies next to useless. So, he led children towards the answers he wanted, didn’t isolate the tested variables, used his own children, and was extremely vague on his concepts.
 * Link**: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2009/10/piaget-why-teach-this-stuff.html

I'm not sure what to think of this or if it matters.


 * Title**: Bill Gates on Expertise: 10,000 Hours and a Lifetime of Fanaticism
 * Description**: Interview of Bill Gates discussing expertise and the type of person that "makes it" to 10,000 hours
 * Link:** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsGihiSE6sM

I think someone else may have posted this...


 * Title**: Language development: Speech milestones for babies
 * Description**: This website has a quick guide to where your young child should be developmentally with language
 * Link:** http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/infant-development/AN01026
 * Example:** if you click "By the end of 24 months" you will see the text below:

By the end of 24 months, your child may:
 * Ask for common foods by name
 * Use simple phrases, such as "more milk"
 * Begin to use pronouns, such as "mine"
 * Ask one- to two-word questions, such as "Go bye-bye?"
 * Follow simple commands without the help of gestures
 * Say more words every month
 * Speak 50 words and understand more

1) This is a seven minute clip on progressive education in the 1940s modeling John Dewey's philosophy towards education. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=opXKmwg8VQM
 * Ann Creary**

2) This is a two minute video clip of Noam Chomsky speaking on his book Miseducation and the influence of John Deweonion today's educational arena. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uZFuOZ0yTNM

3) This is a PBS website aimed at parents for child language development and acquisition skills. It is aninteractive website in which we can view and assess the various stages of language development, particularly on the area of reading. http://www.pbs.org/parents/readinglanguage/reading/main.html