Friday Hot Links

There is an excellent post (new today) at the Digital Natives blog  linking the concept of digital native-ness to Malcolm Gladwell's "magic number [of hours] for true expertise" (see his book Outliers: The Story of Success for more on this).  Read this post and think about how the digital native and true expertise notions collide within our high-ability students.

Ron Fisher, A HASIP participant from Box Elder district, shared a great resource related to my post about FLU!  Ron discovered a nifty tune by singer/storyteller/author Bill Harley called Wash Your Hands. Short and long versions are available as FREE DOWNLOADS you can play in your classroom to remind kids of the huge importance that personal and environmental hygiene plays in disease prevention.  Thanks for sharing, Ron!

Prufrock Press (an educational publisher and supplier of many gifted resources)  runs a gifted education blog written by various authors. Recently, Joel McIntosh, Prufrock's publisher, wrote a column titled "Nine Research-Supported Facts About Gifted Education" in which he summarizes a 2008 NAGC position paper written by Dr. Sally Reis of the University of Connecticut. Click above to read the Prufrock blog, which includes a link to download the actual NAGC position paper.

Want to attend the NAGC Annual Convention, but just don't quite have the bucks or the time to head to St. Louis in November?  How about virtual participation?!  Click on over to the NAGC Virtual Convention page to find out what, how, time, cost, etc.!

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