People with ADHD have difficulties organizing their behavior so as to achieve personally desired aims. Here are five strategies that may be helpful to adults or children with ADHD.
Externalizing information Talking to yourself, - that is also a recommended strategy for therapeutic writing -help you identify, comprehend and organize your thoughts. This way, instead of thinking what needs to be done, you saying it! The fact that you saying it, it may decrease the emotional discomfort that is related to the task.
Programming sounds cool and is a very nice addition to the educational curriculum, but if you don’t know anything about programming, like me, or your kids don’t know anything about it, start from the basics.
Remember the joke that I posted some weeks ago?
A programmer is going to the supermarket and is told: “Buy a pint of milk, and if there are eggs, buy a dozen.” The programmer goes to the supermarket, buys everything, and drives back to his house.
| “If we knew nothing about where we’ d end up, what sort of a society would it feel safe to enter?” –John Rawls |
Matters of injustice arise everyday in informal frameworks and mainly in relation to our own life. Day – to – day it can be hard to take unfairness seriously. I mean to really imagine how life would be If you weren’t you. We work hard and we have ambitions.
Do you ask yourself things like am I a good person? When are we free as human beings? Which is a moral worthy action? Or are there specific moral lows that can apply to everybody? So did Immanuel Kant. And he gave us some good answers.
If you studied religion, you concluded that it attempted, among other things, to help us follow moral lows. Kant tried to replace religious authority with the authority of reason.
I am a beginner blogger and I want to share some things I learned this week. I built my blog with Hugo. To be honest I didn’t do this all by myself. Hugo, as its site says, “is one of the most popular open-source static site generators”. Although, popular doesn’t mean it’s for everyone. You must be a little tech-savvy.
So if you pick Hugo you have to write your posts in Markdown language.
It is quite common to use a computer in classroom nowadays, even in Kindergarten. Young kids often know the basics, how to move the mouse, open the computer, play a game etc. But we could go beyond this by adding programming in our educational programs.
Why? There are a lot of reasons. Kids are already consumers of tech and it is at least pleasant to be an active producer. Moreover, through programming children develop computation thinking skills, such as logical thinking, expressing a task in a clear, precise way, breaking down a problem into components and tackling them one at a time, resilience through spotting and fixing problems and collaboration skills.
Πώς βιώνεις τη καραντίνα; Τι ρόλο παίζει η προσωπικότητα σου; Υπάρχουν προσωπικότητες που ανταποκρίνονται καλύτερα στην καραντίνα;
Η ανθρώπινη προσωπικότητα είναι μοναδική και πολύπλευρη με χαρακτηριστικά πρότυπα σκέψης, συναισθήματος και συμπεριφοράς. Είναι ενας συνδυασμός ενδογγενών και περιβαλλοντικών παραγόντων, καθώς και εμπειριών. Η προσωπικότητα κάποιου μπορεί να αλλάξει, αλλά τα βασικά χαρακτηριστικά του παραμένουν σταθερά στη διάρκεια της ζωής του.
Οι ψυχολόγοι έχουν καταλήξει σε ένα μοντέλο ταξινόμησης των προσωπικοτήτων, το λεγόμενο “Big 5”.
Theory should explain something, provide evidence and make predictions. That doesn’t mean that a theory is indisputable. A theory can be proved wrong or added upon.
So let’s see reliability and validity of Gardner’s theory. Maybe you assume that the theory became popular based on supportive study results. The truth is that the first study to test the theory was published 23 years after the theory was made public. The study did not support Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences.
Does somebody need to know their IQ? Is IQ important? Is Intelligence important?
What is IQ: a measure of intelligence, G factor.
Popular IQ tests: Wais (works well toward normal distribution) & Stanford-binet (works well toward extreme and low distribution).
Average IQ for somebody who graduates high school: 105 Average IQ for somebody who graduates college: 115 The concept of IQ doesn’t seem to linked to close to personality.
A useful guide to the alarming behaviors of children that are at risk for Psychopathy. Additionally, it contains a brief explanation of the 2 types of psychopathy.
Pay attention to the 9th sign, for it contains a hot tip about the utility of punishment.
The last sentence can be also a good guidance for educational intervention programs: “They learn that they can get more of what they want by following the law as opposed to breaking the law”.
Αffirmative action is a controversial issue among teachers.
If you want to watch a dialogue about affirmative action that contains some well laid out thoughts, jokes and even to discover, for the first time in your life, the teleological thinking of Winnie the Pooh click the link below:
Justice: What’s the right thing to do? Arguing affirmative action