I See The Potential
Which classroom would you prefer? This one …. or this one … In Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns (and in our interview with him), co-author Michael Horn argues (amongst other things) that student-centric classrooms are not only the way most children would prefer to learn but also the [...]
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Michael B. Horn, co-author of “Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns” will be our guest on this week’s “My Great Kid Radio Program”. Here’s some links to check out if you’d like to learn more about Mr. Horn and the book before the interview… Download an excerpt from the [...]
Nintendo, as recently as 2005 looked to be on the ropes. Sony’s Playstation and Microsoft’s Xbox had stormed the video game industry and many folks, not to mention video gamers, were quickly forgetting the once dominant player in the video game market. Listen to our interviews with Nintendo ~ HERE (or visit the link on [...]
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Guest: Ben Sherwood – “The Survivors Club” – Survive & Thrive When Life Knocks You Down Listen to our interview with Ben Sherwood ~ HERE (or visit the link on the bottom of this post to listen and download the interview) Earthquakes, tsunamis, mudslides, record breaking blizzards. It almost seems like the natural world has it [...]
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Parenting with “Love & Logic” and the amazing physical, mental and emotional benefits of CranioSacral Therapy were the double-barreled interviews we had on this episode of our radio show. Listen to our interviews on Love & Logic and CranioSacral Therapy ~ HERE (or visit the link on the bottom of this post to listen and download [...]
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Milk, eggs, fish, peanuts, tree nuts, wheat, soy and shellfish. Those are the top eight food allergens (literally accounting for 90% of all food allergy reaction in the US) and when they hit the system of somebody with food allergies it leads to their system going bonkers. Okay, not a very scientific explanation …. more [...]
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Our Guest: Sir Ken Robinson, Expert on Creativity, Education & Human Potential Listen to our interview with Sir Ken ~ HERE (or visit the link on the bottom of this post to listen and download the interview) We live in a country with a broken educational system. Now, factions on all sides of the issue [...]
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We’ve had the good fortune to have special education attorney Wayne Steedman provide us with high quality, professional answers to complicated special education law questions (IEP, ESY, LRE, AYP, MET, NCLB … if all these letters are leaving you feeling l-o-s-t, check out our “Special Education Terms” section of the Education tab) on our show [...]
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Guests Nancy Kaufman – Director Kaufman Children’s Center Speech challenges and speech delays are a hurdle that many children, and families, have to work exceptionally hard to overcome. Fortunately, if diagnosed early enough and treated properly many of these challenges can be overcome, or eliminated entirely. Nancy Kaufman is a nationally recognized expert in the [...]
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Guests Catherine Lord – PhD, Univ. of Michigan Autism & Communication Disorders (UMACC) Laura Fitton – Twitter For Dummies, OneForty.com This was a busy, but exceptionally informative, week on the show where we were fortunately able to land two great interviews that we’ve been working on for some time. Catherine Lord at the University of [...]
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Ben Heywood from PatientsLikeMe.com joined us this morning for a far reaching interview that covered ALS (aka Lou Gehrig’s disease), his brother Stephen’s struggle with the disease which ultimately lead to the creation of the outcome based patient data website www.PatientsLikeMe.com and in a larger sense what REAL health care reform looks like. Never heard [...]
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Itchy tags. Doesn’t like socks. Won’t sit still. Always fidgeting and moving around. Sensitive to sounds. Sensitive to light. Difficult time properly using pens, pencils, etc. Could it be you’ve got an Out-Of-Sync child? These days it seems like there’s a condition for everything under the sun. If your child (or you even) does anything [...]
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How can you beat the story of a Mom that starts a business to do research on how to find quality, safe, fun toys for your kids? Our interview with Marianne Szymanski from “Toy Tips” gave us some really great information on finding toys that are safe for our kids bodies and brains while still [...]
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It’s not everyday you get the chance to speak with a Guiness Book World Record Holder for memory. How good is this guy’s memory? Try this one for size – he memorized 59 decks of cards randomly shuffled together. Now that’s some serious brain power. Even more than that it’s some seriously MANAGED brain power [...]
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We had the great honor on October 25th of last year to interview Peter Wright from Wrightslaw. Pete is a pioneer in the area of Special Education Law and truly one of the ultimate child advocates in this country. We had the joy of being able to host a Wrightslaw conference in 2008 and were [...]
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We had the great pleasure of interviewing Dr. Charles Fay from the Love and Logic Institute this past weekend. The full interview was longer than what we were able to air on Sunday so we’ve included the full interview above for your listening (and hopefully learning) pleasure. What is the Love and Logic approach to [...]
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