February 2011 Blog Posts (6)

Waiting For Superman

When disaster strikes in America, heroes rush in. We’ve seen it time and again: when all seems lost, real-life supermen (and women) step up to save the day. But what if, right now, there is a hidden catastrophe spreading quietly, insidiously through our nation’s cities, towns and communities — and yet we have the power to stop it? What if our children and their futures were in peril? Who will become a hero now? 

From Davis Guggenheim, the Academy Award®-winning director of AN…

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Added by Timothy Gangwer on February 17, 2011 at 12:00am — No Comments

Visual Supports: Children With Autism

Read Let's Get Visual, by Brian S. Friedlander, Ph.D., an article on software for creating visual tools for children with autism and other developmental disorders.

Individuals with autism are often described as "visual learners" or "visual thinkers." In fact, Temple Grandin, a well-known speaker on, and an individual with, autism titled one of her better known books, Thinking in Pictures. My personal experience, while limited, has certainly shown this…

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Added by Timothy Gangwer on February 15, 2011 at 11:44pm — No Comments

ADHD Brains May Have 'Faulty Brakes'

ADHD brains may have 'faulty brakes'
February 14th, 2011
05:37 PM ET
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Added by Timothy Gangwer on February 14, 2011 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Critical Thinking: Basic Questions & Answers



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In this interview for Think magazine (April ’’92), Richard Paul provides a quick overview of critical thinking and the issues surrounding it: defining it, common mistakes in assessing it, its relation to communication skills, self-esteem, collaborative learning,…

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Added by Timothy Gangwer on February 10, 2011 at 10:33am — No Comments

Critical Thinking in Everyday Life

Most of us are not what we could be. We are less. We have great capacity. But most of it is dormant; most is undeveloped. Improvement in thinking is like improvement in basketball, in ballet, or in playing the saxophone. It is unlikely to take place in the absence of a conscious commitment to learn. As long as we…

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Added by Timothy Gangwer on February 9, 2011 at 11:05am — No Comments

"Fifty percent of the brain's pathways are devoted to vision," said Dr. Laura Balcer

(CNN) -- For an injury that is largely invisible, it is no small irony that a new test to detect concussion involves the eyes.

The two-minute test, which tracked subtle vision problems in athletes with suspected traumatic brain injury, was a near-perfect gauge of whether a concussion had occurred, according to a new study.

"Fifty percent of the brain's pathways are devoted to vision," said Dr. Laura Balcer, study co-author, who added that eye movement provides a window…

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Added by Timothy Gangwer on February 2, 2011 at 11:46pm — No Comments

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