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• 23 Mar 09
  

  Valerie B.

  cigotie attends my feeder middle school. In spite of his age and our rural setting, he has amassed a portfolio of digital special effects on par with people twice his age and half his distance to Hollywood.

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• 22 Mar 09
  

  Alice Mercer

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  • 3 Tom Hoffman

    
    
    

    This situation is common in teaching the arts to high school students. The kid who can draw a perfect reproduction of a photo from a magazine or can play a Led Zeppelin solo note for note. You just have to teach them, you know, the arts and humanities. With computers would be nice.

    
    

    But that’s what those disciplines are about.

  • 18 Scott McLeod

    
    
    

    Dan, isn’t cigotie simply going through some natural stages of learning? See, for example, some of these top-of-the-Google-list descriptions of various stages of learning:

    
    

    http://snipurl.com/ec1v1

    
    

    http://snipurl.com/ec1vm

    
    

    http://snipurl.com/ec1w4

    
    

    As you note, he may need some structured help to continue to make progress, but it seems a little early to be worried about the stage he’s currently in, no?

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