Learn to respect older generations and etiquette/ means of communication with them ( not just unidimensaionally using hightech and gadgets, etc..) and thus prepare them when they in the coming years enter into the real world and workforce could utilise their creativity in helping to solve some of the problems that might have been around us for generations... Sorry - not vey good in expressing this - just felt that the young clever people tends to dismiss older gnerations' mentallity and intellects...As a parent of a gifted child at BHHS, I felt I lost the link/ communicative capability with my daughter who is in Grade 8.
Friday 22 April 2011
Discussion Topic # 3
winniemytong said...
To add curriculum - focus on kids' emotional wellbeing and development which
is disproportional with their intellectual capability.
Learn to respect older generations and etiquette/ means of communication with them ( not just unidimensaionally using hightech and gadgets, etc..) and thus prepare them when they in the coming years enter into the real world and workforce could utilise their creativity in helping to solve some of the problems that might have been around us for generations... Sorry - not vey good in expressing this - just felt that the young clever people tends to dismiss older gnerations' mentallity and intellects...As a parent of a gifted child at BHHS, I felt I lost the link/ communicative capability with my daughter who is in Grade 8.
Learn to respect older generations and etiquette/ means of communication with them ( not just unidimensaionally using hightech and gadgets, etc..) and thus prepare them when they in the coming years enter into the real world and workforce could utilise their creativity in helping to solve some of the problems that might have been around us for generations... Sorry - not vey good in expressing this - just felt that the young clever people tends to dismiss older gnerations' mentallity and intellects...As a parent of a gifted child at BHHS, I felt I lost the link/ communicative capability with my daughter who is in Grade 8.
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I'm not sure I agree that this is unique to gifted kids. I would also be curious to what degree these attributes can be fostered in a school context vs the home.
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ReplyDeleteA very good point made by winniemytong and this doesn't just apply to students, but many gifted adults [the so called clever in our society] and this is not everyone but some people lack basic social skills in talking politely to not only older people but those of different cultural and religious backgrounds. I'm shocked by the amount of yelling and abuse on the internet and misbehaviour on social networking sites and maybe the gadget group can be blamed for these poor social skills that some people have as a result of only communicating by the internet and in fact some people in our society are not so rich and they are less fortunate and they do not appreciate being bombarded by technology but would rather have someone just talk to them politely treating them as a human being not a robot. As I said this is not just gifted children but gifted adults can become walking computers and yes they maybe clever, but they sometimes lose the skills of kindness, generosity and compassion and forget that people are human beings not computers. The young fortunate tend to view the older who don't use technology as dumb, but this is not the case they are wise and should be respected and treated as such and young people don't tend to realise how lucky they are and that is fair enough in that they have lived no different so have not had to face poverty like some of the older generations faced when they were younger.
You would have to show how "lack of respect" is specific to a gifted program (cf a regular school program) to make this relevant for a submission to the government on gifted education.
ReplyDeleteYour post covers a lot of ground so forgive the summary but it seems you are saying:
a) only gifted people use social networking sites.
b) posts on social networking sites are disrespectful.
c) therefore gifted kids could benefit from "respect" education.