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Hoagies' Blog Hop: Utopian Fantasies
 Utopian Fantasies.
What does your Utopian Fantasy look like? Would you be alone?
In a community? Would there be books? music? nature? cities?
huge intricate libraries?? Or would it be the life you live today?
Does it look like something you read in a book, or something
purely from your imagination? Is it close to your reality, or
a million miles away?
What is your Wonderful World?
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including
Blog Hop: Community
and Blog Hop:
Emotional Intelligence.
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 My Utopian Fantasy by Jen,
repurposed
genealogy
- The setting may vary slightly. I am learning to find my center and align
each chakra. Bare feet anchored to the mat, I twist my body to mimic the the
Yogi's form. I am on a sailboat as the salty Greek air whips my hair. No
matter where I am, I am usually alone. This is my Utopian fantasy.
I've always taken mental vacations as a way to cope with my daily struggles.
The more challenging my reality becomes, the easier it is for me to retreat
into a mental vacation paradise. I mutate the mundane. Scrubbing a sink is
waxing a surf board. My shower is a grotto waterfall. The rising volume of
my boys bickering is... well, I still haven't found a way to transform
that...
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 Finding
Your Tribe by
Heather in WonderSchooling
- There are robot clubs demonstrating their robots, engineering and math
professors with cool demos, 3D printers and artists, a vegetable orchestra,
violins cut in half so you can see inside, and lots of hands-on creative
activities for the kids. While we were heading over to drive the submersible
robot, some random kid started singing my kid's favorite song: the new
Periodic Table Song by ASAP Science.
You should have seen my 7 year old. In that moment, he was normal, or at
least not alone...
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 Help Your Gifted
Teen Discover Their Gifted Utopia by
Jill Williford Wurman, Director of Research,
The Grayson School
- I spent the summer before my sixteenth birthday in one of my favorite
places in the world — on East Campus at Duke University at TIP, now known as
Duke TIP. It was horrifically hot and humid and utterly un-air-conditioned,
but I would have loved to stay there for the rest of my life, because when I
was there, I could be fully myself. Everyone there thought it was fine to
read Tolstoy because you wanted to, or that solving complicated math
problems was fun, or that taking macroeconomics during the summer was a
perfectly good, if not ideal, way to spend one’s vacation. None of those
ideas was considered weird, and all of them would have been acceptable if
not heartily endorsed.
At that time, TIP was absolutely my gifted utopia...
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Utopian Fantasies by Linda Wallin,
Living with Geniuses
- In a perfect world…
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gifted people are able to earn money for working on their passions. They are
treated as equals with other groups and respected for their abilities and/or
disabilities.
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population would be spread out over the land, so that everyone could be in
touch with nature on a daily basis.
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humans would be educated in all of the areas of growth, develop to their
highest potential, and live in harmony...
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Schooling in an Imperfect World by
Gift-Ed Connections
- There’s this interesting paradox that I live out and I am not the only
one. In as much as I see some fundamental flaws in how we educate, I just
spent the last month, half of my summer break, in school. Going to school to
figure out how to fix/improve schooling. It sounds a little like going to
war to end war. But I was not alone. I spent many hours discussing the many
ways in which the education system is struggling with other graduate
students, each with our own particular set of lenses set on a particular
question or problem that has caught our attention. And paying for the
privilege. Of schooling. So, what did we figure out?...
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An Ideal School by
Gifts for Learning
- Since kids can learn at their own pace, there is no set number of years a
student is required to be in school. He is required to be school until he
has mastered all that is required, however long it takes. A graduation
ceremony is held each year for those students who are ready to move on to
college or trade school, and the graduating "class" is made up of kids of
all ages. Some kids choose to stay in school for a few years after they
mastered the requirements. They use the time to learn as much as they can on
all the topics they are interested in, and that includes art and
music.
Ben's parents are as pleased with the school as Ben is. They don't have to
fight to see that Ben's
needs are met. They don't have to deal with standardized testing or
arguments about socialization.
They are never told that they need to stop "pushing" Ben, to let Ben be a
kid. So just where is
this school Ben and his parents love so much? It's in a place called
Utopia...
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 How
to Do the College Search When Your Gifted Homeschooler is Looking for Utopia by
Fearless Homeschoolers
- For many of us, homeschooling is a wonderful fix. Our kids learn in
meaningful and intentional ways. Their academic and extracurricular pursuits
are personalized and deep.
But our kids still wait. For their Utopia. And many believe that their
Utopia lies in college.
I have worked with many gifted teens. And they are right. Their Utopia
can exist in college. As long as it is the right college...
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Updated
December 01, 2020
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