Marc Smolowitz
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773 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2018
last heard Oct 2022
Marc Smolowitz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Um, it's not officially recognized by most of the kind of official bodies that recognize, you know, illnesses or disorders or, you know, medical conditions.
It's you know, it's a forming community.
It's a forming diagnosis.
It's gaining traction.
I mean, and we're I mean only really in the last fifteen years has it become a thing.
Um and more and more it's a thing.
And what I was really drawn to about two E was that this was a community in motion.
Like these were parents and families and educators and advocates that were self organizing into something quite interesting and powerful.
And if you if I dare I be so bold, we're kind of breathing life into gifted um in the twenty first century in a way that it really had sort of gifted had kind of retreated.
Um
Into academia and you know, didn't have the sort of clout that it it really needed in order to get people to pay attention.
I mean, and by clout I mean across a lot of social systems, like certainly in you know, by way of laws, gifted wasn't supported, by way of funding, gifted isn't supported, you know, and then by way of seeing gifted in the education setting in comparison, for example, to special ed, you know.
really was sort of the stepchild.
And the movie does kind of we'll look at that.
We will be really tracing the history of giftedness and helping people understand the laws and really how did we get here, you know, in the 21st century?
Like where are we as we are on the cusp of 2020s, right?
With all this stuff.
And there are new ideas about intelligence.
There's a whole sort of psychological movement around that.
There's grit, there's growth mindset, there's other G words, as I call them, that are kind of in the mix now.
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