Муниципальное общеобразовательное бюджетное учреждение
средняя общеобразовательная школа №15
Реорle With Unusual Gifts
Учитель:
Путилина
Л.Г.
Учащиеся 9, 10 кл.
МОБУ СОШ № 15
Давлетова Зульфия,
Мухетдинов Ильназ
Нефтекамск 2009-2010
учебный год
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Цели
1.Познавательный
аспект.
Знакомство с научными
исследованиями в области интеллектуальных способностей человека.
2. Учебный аспект.
Формирование умений и
навыков говорения по теме с использованием материалов из периодической печати,
Интернета, новейших печатных изданий.
3. Развивающий
аспект.
Развитие способности
устной речи, обобщение фактов и формулирование выводов из прочитанного и
сказанного.
4.Воспитательный
аспект.
Формирование
толерантного отношения к людям, отличающимся в восприятии мира, в поведении;
подвести ученика к осознанию того, что все - разные. Способствовать воспитанию
в нём уважительного отношения к тем, кто по – иному воспринимает окружающий
мир, действует и мыслит.
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Maybe people
with unusual gifts will change our lives for the better.
Indigo children are among us.
Scientists say Indigo
children do exist –a new race with extrasensory abilities. Each year,
more parents and teachers come forward with stories about these children.
A psychologist and a member
of the European Psychiatric association Natalya Mikhaylovskaya spoke
with “Komsomolskaya Pravda” about Indigo children after years of
studying gifted youth.
She says that for the past
ten years children have been born who don’t resemble ordinary boys and girls.
Their uniqueness is apparent when they are only several months old. Doctors say
they are astounded by the children’s very “adult” eyes. While ordinary babies
aren’t able to focus their vision, Indigo children stare intensely. The older
they get the odder they behave compared to their peers.”
Parents are confused and
turning to medical professionals for advice about how to raise their Indigo
children. They’re having a difficult time communicating with their kids. Their
children don’t want to study or play games like their friends. They don’t
listen to authority and they’re always off on their own.
There have always been
problem children. In the past psychologists diagnosed them with Attention
Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Hyperactivity and prescribe sedatives. However,
children who suffer from hyperactivity aren’t able to concentrate for long
periods of time on one activity. The smallest obstacle deters them from
proceeding any further and they are immediately consumed by another task.
Meanwhile, Indigo children
stick to one activity that genuinely interests them – and aren’t impeded by
difficulties. Instead, obstacles give them the extra push they need to succeed.
Indigo children accomplish a great deal quickly. They’re persistent and
concentrated until they’ve satisfied their curiosity. Einstein comes to mind,
who was considered mentally handicapped as a young boy.
Mikhaylovskaya said that
for a long time there was no official name for these kids. In Russia
they’re called children of the new millennium, or children of the light. In France
the children are called Teflon kids as they don’t stick to social stereotypes.
In England they’re called cyborgs as they listen to their heads more than their
hearts.
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Indigo children start using
computers when they are only 3-4 years old unlike most children. They are
technologically advanced. Thus, it’s safe to assume that technologically will
develop more quickly in the next 10 years than previously thought possible.
Indigo children will open the door to a world where people work with their
heads and not their hands.
Scientists’
Opinion About Unique Children
The term “Indigo”, as these
children are called in the U.S., is rooted in the research of the psychologist Lee
Carroll. Carroll’s research is disputable as the concept of auras isn’t
accepted by the scientific community as a whole. However, a number of
authoritative scientists have lent credit to the field by developing methods to
study the energetic forces encompassing objects that are known as auras.
Carroll measured the auras
of outstanding individuals – the size, color, shape and intensity of
illumination. He discovered their auras were bright violet whereas most
people’s are yellow or green. Carroll also demonstrated that children with
bright violet auras surpass both their parents and peers in terms of intellect
and knowledge.
Mikhaylovskaya said that
Indigo children are smart, developed and don’t fit the usual stereotypes of
children. They’re very gifted and have an entirely different agenda for our
planet. Their average IQ is 130 – a level matched by 1 in 10,000. (The average
IQ is 100.)
More and more scientists
believe that mankind is standing on the threshold of change. We made a small
leap in the 20th Century, increasing our average lifespan and
working age. Indigo children may lead mankind in a new direction in the 21st
Century as technology shift into the forefront replacing biology.
The Indigo race is quickly
multiplying. Even as early as 30 years ago, no one had heard of the phenomenon.
Today, 70 percent of all children have a bright purple aura. Scientists expect
the figure to increase to 90 percent in the near future. Some say the birth of
Indigo children isn’t an accident, suggesting that new civilizations have
always been born at history’s most catastrophic moments.
There are some facts from
Komsomolskaya Pravda’s Archive. Nine-year-old Mike Smith in Germany
showed an interesting trick. He took a glass pill bottle, placed it on a table
and telepathically extracted the medicine.
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Nadezhda Kipryanovich gave
birth to a phenomenal baby in the Volgograd region. When Boris was only 8 month
old, he spoke in full sentences. He already
read large newspaper print at
1.5. At three he began talking about the Universe. He not only knew the planets
in our solar system and their satellites, but also the names of star systems.
Scientists studied the phenomenon, but weren’t able to find explanation.
While making a presentation
in New York, 10-year-old Mariya Yudovich gave every audience member a rosebud,
and then made them bloom with one movement of her hand.
A young Mexican girl
Osvaldo Rios is able to describe photographs by touch while blindfolded. She
can name the people in the photographs, as well as their addresses and the
numbers of their driver’s licenses and insurances.
Dr. Vladimir Kireev,
a psychiatrist at a Hospital in Tallin, Estonia thinks that the enthusiasm
shown by researchers lauding the Indigo phenomenon is disturbing. They’re
dividing children into two groups- a select race and a lesser sort.
Oleg Gubin, a psychiatrist, an employee of the Health
Plus Medical Center supposes that children who are very gifted in a single
field often suffer from mental or psychological disorders. “This isn’t evidence
of a new race. What we’re seeing is the result of mass informational
saturation, a changing ecology, genetically modified foods and other factors.”
Robert Todd Carroll, the head of the Philosophy Department at Sacramento
College in California, U.S., the author of the «Encyclopedia of
Misconceptions» thinks that the principle idea of the book “Indigo Children”,
on which the film is based, is that children suffering from ADD and
hyperactivity are aliens from the cosmos. Of course this is absurd. Robert Todd
Carroll thinks that these children just require a bit of extra attention.”
Yury Fomin, the Head
Expert of the Ecological of the Unknown Association, an engineer, an automated
Management Specialist thinks that the discovery of extrasensory abilities in
more and more children means the Indigo phenomenon is spreading.
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Can
Auras Be Analyzed?
Professor Konstantin
Korotkov is one of Russia’s pioneers in the field of aura scientific
research. Today he works at the Saint Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and
Optics. Korotkov has devised a machine that measures peoples’ auras and
provides feedback on the individuals’ health and state of mine. He describes
how his instrument works. They collect information from physical fields
surrounding the fingers. When
an electromagnetic impulse hits somebody’s finger, his/her body releases a
flood of photons and electrons. Korotkov’s optical system monitors these
reactions. Later scientists analyze the results on the computer. Within 10 – 15
minutes they have a complete dossier on the individual – psyche, body and the
condition of his/her organs. This instrument is already being used at the First
Medical Institute, Military and Medical Academy, Sports Institute and many
other organizations in both Russian and abroad.
As a summary, here are ten
attributes that best describe this new kind of child, the Indigo Child.
·
They come into the world with a
feeling of royalty (and often act like it)
·
They have a feeling of “deserving
to be here”, and are surprised when others don’t share that.
·
Self-worth is not a big issue.
They often tell the parents “who they are”.
·
They have difficulty with absolute
authority (authority without explanation or choice).
·
They simply will not do certain
things; for example, waiting in line is difficult for them.
·
They get frustrated with systems
that are ritually oriented and don’t require creative thought.
·
They often see better ways of
doing things, both at home and in school, which makes them seem like “ system
busters” (nonconforming to any system).
·
They seem antisocial unless they
are with their own kind. If there are no others of like consciousness around
them, they often turn inward, feeling like no other human understands them.
School is often extremely difficult for them socially.
·
They will not respond to “guilt”
discipline (“Wait till your father gets home and finds out what you did”).
·
They are not shy in letting you
know what they need.
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What other extraordinary
abilities might humans have? This list of extraordinary human abilities was
inspired The Top Tips to Improve Your Memory when I began
thinking about how some
people are blessed with the ability to recall a scene as if they were looking
at a photograph. And how other people can recreate music from memory, such as
Mozart’s famed reproduction of Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere after one hearing.
I’ve listed some of the most well understood and interesting abilities rated
from most common to most interesting and rare. Bear in mind that most of these
unusual abilities are genetic and cannot be controlled by the person affected
but are an inherent quality of their physical self.
Mental
Calculators
The most extraordinary group of people adept at
performing complex mental calculations is those who are also autistic savants.
While there are many trained people who can work out multiplications of large
numbers (among other calculations) in their head extremely fast – mostly
mathematicians, writers, and linguists – the untrained ability of autistic
savants is the most interesting. The majority of these people are born with
savant syndrome (only an estimated 50% of people with savantism are also
autistic), which is still poorly understood, few develop it later in life,
usually due to a head injury.
Тhеrе аrе lеss thаn 100 rесоgnised
рrоdigious sаvants in thе wоrld аnd оf the savants with аutism who are capable
оf using mental саlсulаtiоn tесhniques thеrе аrе еven less. Recent rеsеаrсh hаs
suggested thаt а blооd flоw tо thе раrt оf thе brаin rеsponsible fоr
mаthеmаtiсаl cаlсulаtiоns оf siх tо sеven timеs thе nоrmаl rаtе is оnе оf thе
fаctors that enables mental саlсulаtors tо wоrk оut mаth much faster than the
average person.
Examples of people with
extraordinary calculation skills include Daniel McCartney, Salo Finkelstein,
and Alexander Aitken. Daniel Tammet is one of few who are also autistic
savants.
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Еidеtic memory
Whеn а реrson has рhotographic
memory or total recall this is called eidetic memory. It is the ability to recall
sounds, images, or objects from one’s memory with extreme accuracy. Examples
of eidetic memory include the effort of Akira Haraguchi who recited from
memory the first 100,000 decimal places of pi and the drawings of Stephen
Wiltshire (who is also an autistic savant). Kim Peek, the inspiration
for the autistic (Peek is not actually autistic though) character of Raymond
Babbit in the movie Rainman, also possesses eidetic memory – among other things
he can recall some 12,000 books from memory.
Whether true photographic
memory exists in adults is still a controversial issue, but it is accepted that
eidetic abilities are distributed evenly between men and women. One also cannot
become an eidetiker through practice.
Immortal cells
There is only one known
case of a person having immortal cells (cells that can divide indefinitely
outside of the human body, defying the Hayflick limit) and that is of a woman
named Henrietta Lacks. In 1951, 31 year old Henrietta Lacks was
diagnosed with cervical cancer, which she died from within the year. Unknown to
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her and her family (i.e.
without informed consent) a surgeon took a tissue sample from her tumor that
was passed on to a Dr. George Gey. A scientist for the John Hopkins University
Tissue Culture Laboratory, Gey propagated Jack’s tissue sample into an immortal
cell line – cell line. The cells from Lacks’ tumour have an active version of
the telomerase enzyme (telomerase is the mechanism by which cells age or are
aged) and proliferate abnormally fast. On the day of Henrietta Lacks’ death,
Dr. Gey announced to the world that a new age in medical research had begun –
one that might provide a cure for cancer.
Today, the HeLa cells are so
common in laboratories that they contaminate many other cell cultures and have
rendered some biological studies invalid through their presence. There are also
more HeLa cells alive today than when Henrietta Lacks was alive – they outweigh
her physical mass by many times. Tragically, Lacks was never told of the
immensely valuable contribution her cells made to science and her family was
not informed until many years later that her cells were being used for research
purposes (a 1990 court ruling later verified Lacks’ hospital as the owner of
her discarded tissue and cells).
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Differences
in mental abilities.
People value their
thinking skills and woe betide anyone who tries to measure them. Both the
measurer and the yardstick are liable to be sacrificed on the altar of public
ridicule. The professionalisation of this expert bashing may be seen in one of
the bestselling books about measuring IQ (intelligence quotient) –Stephen Jay
Gould’s The Mismeasure of Man. Never mind that it leaves the reader
uninformed about the successes of research on differences in human intelligence
or that it has been deemed misleading by the cognoscenti, it satisfies our
desire to tar and feather experts who dare to measure what we value about
ourselves and wish to remain mysterious and complex.
To study differences in
mental abilities is to share the predicament of meteorologists. These
scientists deal with an aspect of our everyday lives about which most of us feel
free to speak with authority unlike, for example, atomic theory or plate
tectonics. Meteorologists must simultaneously develop constructs and give
practical predictions, which affect our lives. Their measurement tools and the
mathematical framework behind them are formidable. They are playing a
stochastic game, getting it more right than wrong over the entire season.
However, we want them and IQ testers to be right than wrong every time or for
every person: deterministic rather than stochastic.
Summary points
* Differences in mental
abilities have a hierarchical structure, from narrow specific abilities
to general ability
* Environmental and genetic
contributions to these differences are sizeable, the genetic contribution
possibly increasing with age
* Differences may change or
remain stable during the adult lifespan, stability being especially high for
verbal abilities
* Differences in mental
ability have some modest predictive validity for real life outcomes
* Cognitive and biological
bases of differences in mental ability are being explored but are not yet
understood
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Absolute pitch.
People with absolute pitch
are capable of identifying and reproduce a tone without needing a known
reference. It is not simply a better ability to hear but the ability to
mentally class sounds into remembered categories. Examples of this include
identifying the pitch of everyday noises (e.g. horns, sirens, and engines),
being able to sing a named note without hearing a reference, naming the tones
of a chord, or naming the key signature of a song. Doing any of these is a
cognitive act – it requires one to remember the frequency of each tone, be able
to label it, and sufficient exposure to the range of sound within each label.
Opinions vary as to whether absolute pitch is genetic or a learned ability that
is strongly influenced to one/s exposure to music at crucial developmental
stages – much like how a child’s ability to identify colors by their frequency
depends on the type and level of their exposure to it.
Estimates of the portion of
the population having absolute pitch range from 3% of the general population in
the US and Europe to 8% of those (from the same areas) who are semi –
professional or professional musicians. In music conservatories in Japan however, about 70% of musicians have absolute pitch. Part of the reason for this
significantly larger percentage may be because absolute pitch is more common
among people who grew up in a tonal (Mandarin, Cantonese, and Vietnamese) or
pitch accent (Japanese) language environment. Absolute pitch is also more
common in those who are blind from birth, have William’s Syndrome, or have an
autism spectrum disorder.
Echolocation.
Echolocation is how bats
fly around in dark forests – they emit a sound, wait for the echo to return,
and use that sound of the echo in each ear plus the return time to work out
where an object is and how far away. Surprisingly (well, maybe not on this
list!), humans are also capable of using echolocations. Use of echolocation is
probably restricted to blind people because it takes a long time to master and
heightened sensitivity to reflected sound.
To navigate via
echolocation a person actively creates a noise (e.g. tapping a cane or clicking
the tongue) and determines from the echoes where objects are located around
them. People skilled at this can often tell where an object is, what size it is,
and its density. Because humans cannot make or hear the higher pitched
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frequencies that bats and
dolphins use they can only picture objects that are comparatively larger than
those ‘seen’ by echolocating animals.
People with the ability to
echolocate include James Holman, Daniel Kish, and Ben Underwood. Perhaps the
most remarkable and well-documented of cases is the story of Ben Underwood, who
lost both his eyes to retinal cancer at the age of three.
More and more scientists believe that mankind is
standing on the threshold of change. We made a small leap in the 20th
Century, increasing our average lifespan and working age. People with unusual
abilities may lead mankind in a new direction in the 21st Century as
technology shift into the forefront replacing biology.
Maybe people with
unusual gifts will change our lives for the better.
Contents.
1.
Differences in mental abilities.
2.
Indigo children.
3.
Scientists’ opinion about unique
children.
4.
Can auras be analyzed?
5.
Extraordinary human abilities:
a)
mental calculators;
b)
eidetic memory;
c)
immortal cells;
d)
absolute pitch;
e)
echolocation.
Literature.
1.
Carroll JB. Reflections on Stephen
Jay Could`s The Mismeasure of Man. Intelligence.1995; 21:121-134.
2.
Carroll J.B. Human cognitive
abilities. Cambridge,1993
3.
British Medical Journal,
December19, 1998
4.
Schaie KW.Intellectual development
in adulthood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1996.
5.
www.yandex.ru,
listverse.com
6.
Deary IJ, Caryl PG. Neuroscience
and human intelligence differences. 1997
7.
«Komsomolskaya Pravda»,Svetlana
Kusina,01.05.2008
Цели
1.Познавательный
аспект.
Знакомство с научными
исследованиями в области интеллектуальных способностей человека.
2. Учебный аспект.
Формирование умений и
навыков говорения по теме с использованием материалов из периодической печати,
Интернета, новейших печатных изданий.
3. Развивающий
аспект.
Развитие способности
устной речи, обобщение фактов и формулирование выводов из прочитанного и
сказанного.
4.Воспитательный аспект.
Формирование
толерантного отношения к людям, отличающимся в восприятии мира, в поведении;
подвести ученика к осознанию того, что все - разные. Способствовать воспитанию
в нём уважительного отношения к тем, кто по – иному воспринимает окружающий
мир, действует и мыслит.
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