Archive for January 2017
Your Mind Is Not Like a Computer; It Is Like An Ecosystem: Minding Your Metaphors About the Mind
I am what is often referred to as a “high-achieving dyslectic.” From a very early age, I was made aware that my mind simply worked differently than other people’s. Fortunately, while in elementary school, I was surrounded by caring special educators (including my mother) who taught me to embrace my uniqueness. But it was not…
Read MoreAssessments That Provide Real Insight into Learning
A math teacher described a problem he was having with his 2nd graders: “One of the goals of our math curriculum is to enable the students to articulate their mathematical reasoning. We would like them to explain, ‘The problem said two more came, so I knew I needed to add,’ but instead we get, ‘I…
Read MoreAdvice for Adults on Teen Car Accidents
I am a high school student in Charles City, Iowa. In our writing class, we are researching topics that we believe are large issues in the world today. I chose to research teenage car crashes. I researched the large number of accidents resulting from drinking and reckless driving. I came up with two ideas to…
Read MoreParental Expectations and Pressures
I am a high school student in Burleson, Texas, and would like to inform you of an issue I find very pressing in today’s society and education. As you know, education is a key factor for bettering students in our country. I have an issue with how parents’ expectations affect the mental and physical health…
Read MoreParents, Kids and Technology
We are high school sophomores in Lafayette, Indiana. We would like to make parents across America aware of the negative factors of the technology age. We feel the majority of parents are not well informed about the negative effects technology can have on the younger generation. Technology is a key in the development and progression…
Read MoreAdolescents Struggle to Identify Fake News
Given the multitude of phony news stories spawned during the 2016 election, culminating in the shooting at a D.C. pizza restaurant, the Stanford History Education Group’s study of adolescents’ ability to judge the credibility of all the information vying for their attention in cyberspace is amazingly timely. The study focused on over 7,800 middle school,…
Read MoreProtecting Children on the Ice: Referees and Responsibility
I love ice hockey. It killed me, is killing me. My brain, like the surface of the moon, cratered from years of collisions with the boards, sticks, elbows, ice. Isolated, distant, circling the inhabited world, still trying to communicate with it. Pills for ungovernable rage, pills for depression, pills for migraines. Chunks of me gone,…
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