Paretns handling the digital overload

NetFamilyNews

A great article regarding how to help your child process the 24/7 digital onslaught.

2 big things from this article....

The Importance of Being Unpredictable � The Talent Code

1. Focus is something that must be practiced and developed. This would be in both school, music, and sports.

2. You should practice the ability to focus with distraction and randomness.

Here is what the author says in the article that stood out for me:

The desired quality here is focus, which we can define as the ability to maintain concentration and control emotions in the face of unpredictability. We usually think of focus as something that’s innate, part of your character.

But the lesson here, I think, is that our instincts might be wrong. For Mackey, James, and the violinists, focus is a kind of skill, one that requires a training regimen all its own.

In fact, we can go further and divide all training into two basic types: 1) the training that builds the fundamental skill (a.k.a. the fast, fluent neural circuit); and 2) the training that field-tests that circuit, whacking it with all kinds of real-world randomness and distraction, in order that it become stronger, more reliable, and capable of handling surprises. Sort of like a good dog team.

A teacher exposes the less than desirable food we feed our students at school..

A Teacher is Eating School Lunches Every Day for a Year

Check out the article, they point out a school in France does not repeat a dish in a 32 day cycle. While we serve pizza 40% of our school lunch days.

The best? We serve sugar based snack foods for our 10 a.m. snack time (dunking French toast and PopTarts), we do this even during school testing week.

$2 for prisons for every $1 towards education...

ginandtacos.com � Blog Archive � STRIKING A NICE BALANCE

The author speaks to the point,

"Spending twice as much on prisons as higher education should prompt some soul searching."

What does this say but us as a society?

This is for all my skateboarding students...

skateboarding

This one made me kind of sad...

YOUTH - NEW MATH by Craig Damrauer


As wisdom increases the dividend will decrease :(

The Week in Rap

The Week in Rap

Another weekly rap...

The best part is the great links that they supply to the current events that they rap to. The class enjoys watching and then discussing the events.

"Made, not born."

Made, not born.: "

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