#for the gifted kids

[ktempestbradford]

Note Taking for "Gifted Kids" Who Were Never taught How

Based on the conversation in this post:

Here are some tools for taking notes that will help even if you've never been taught a good system.

Note Taking Smart Pens

One of the things that was hardest for me when I first started taking notes was figuring out what to write down/capture so I would be able to find it again and understand it. When I was a journalist I got to review several iterations of the Livescribe pen and wished every day that I'd had one in college.

Pens of this type will not only turn your written notes into a digital file (and may even be able to translate your handwriting into typed text), the best ones will also record audio while you write. To play back the audio, you use the pen to tap on an area of the page where you were writing, and the audio will play back from that point. So not only do you have your notes, but also the words of the instructor.

Here's a roundup of the current pens of this type.

Grab the Livescribe here:

Note Taking with Mobile Devices

There are also apps for iOS and Android that will do similar things to the Smart Pen or you can use them to record, auto-transcribe, and bookmark specific parts of a lecture as it's recording.

You can find a listing of these apps and other note taking devices here and here.

Did a quick search and found these apps for iOS and Android (respectively):

Using these you won't have to take the best notes or even have a super good system in order for you to capture what you need and find it again for studying.

[brightlotusmoon]

[thedisablednaturalist]

Kinda fucked up that we all coo and sympathize with "former gifted kids" but never talk about the students who had to stay late after school or over the summer for remedial classes/clubs, who struggled to get above a C, who were given up on or punished. Who tried so hard to understand or just couldn't. Who were grouped with the "stupid kids" (a classmate called us that in remedial math btw)

Autistic kids and adhders who can't relate to their gifted peers and are constantly alienated by them. Kids who struggled in school due to dealing with a chronic or mental illness or physical/learning/developmental disability. Those of us who have had to drop out of highschool or college. Kids who worked so hard and wanted to be seen as smart, but never were. Who watched as their peers seem to fly by them in school, while they were left behind. Who were bullied and put down by those in the gifted and honors classes. Whose confidence was absolutely destroyed by education.

I love you all and I'm so sorry the school system failed you. I'm sorry you weren't properly accommodated and given the education you deserved. I'm sorry people put you down for something that they never had to fight for.

[lesbian-disaster-academic]

i used to be so good at writing strong, thoroughly-researched, thoroughly-edited essays.

as a kid in hs, my teacher literally came up to me, holding my 40 page essay on the intersection of the European witch hunts and capitalism/exploitation/gender roles (it was supposed to be 7 pages...whoops) and went like "this is literally a master's-degree level thesis. what are you doing?? you could literally use this as your final dissertation in a master's program, what the fuck."

NOW??? NOW?? you'd think I'd be oh so skilled. but alas. i can barely piece together two ideas. adhd skill-regression is so so real. im SOBBING

[chloesimaginationthings]

Into the pit is FNAF’s own Coraline story..

[peartheshame]

i often think about that split second where orpheus has turned around, the wash of relief, love, joy, love, love, love that he feels when he sees eurydice. there is darkness and doubt all around him, the ache of his feet, the feeling of defeat, and in his desperation borne of love he sees her. and for a split second, love takes over. the last thing eurydice sees is love etched into every corner of her husbands face before she is dragged back into death.

[nachomori-3]

I couldn't resist. More Ear, the hypothetical child of @canisalbus 's oc's Machete and Vasco. Sopping wet thing <3

[mothmonologue]

My life is a constant cycle between "I need to rest before I burn out" and "I'm wasting my potential, I should work harder"

[the-nefarious-vampire]

"you only say you're autistic because you want to feel special and different" actually finding out i was autistic made me feel significantly less special and different. before i was autistic i was Strange and Unpredictable in some sort of Unknowable way which Surely meant i was Predestined for Greatness (like storybook character). now im just some fuckin autistic guy like any other. i significantly prefer it this way btw

[zebulontheplanet]

Hearing constantly about gifted autistic kids and people seeing it as THEE autistic trait has completely disregarded those who aren’t gifted and made a HUGE divide in the community. Seeing constantly “yeah autistic people are usually gifted” is so annoying because a VERY large chunk of autistic people, aren’t actually gifted and media has just put the gifted people at the front because they’re more palatable. The “autistic gifted kid burnout” has become more so a trend than anything and I’ve seen a lot of people assume they’re autistic because they are the “gifted kid burnout person” when that isn’t even a requirement for an autism diagnosis. You don’t have to be gifted to be autistic. You don’t have to be!!

Start putting the people who struggle more in the spotlight. Those with intellectual disabilities, those with learning disabilities, those with cognitive disabilities, those who are just generally stereotypically “dumb” and embrace it!

We need to have a very big discussion about this as a community and it needs to start today.

[thattheater-kid]

I am an aroace aplatonic agender autistic ADHD person with anxiety, which means I’m winning. I collected the most A’s. I got the high score.

[ilexdiapason]

little joel on youtube got me wondering what the percentage is actually like. please reblog so i can get more responses and thus a more representative data pool for my demographic of "people who use tumblr in 2023"

thank u tumblr for enabling post editing! no more reblogs on this post society has progressed past the need for reblogs on this post

[nyxofdemons]

The Circus & The Full Moon parallels

[hyunpic]

HYUNJIN for CARTIER & ESQUIRE KOREA: in the name of love

[chrisbangs]

Bang Chan Doing That Move

[lesbiancloudtail]

okay i've just been really curious about this for a while so i wanted to make a poll about it