TY - JOUR
AU - Johnsen, Susan
AB - From the Editor susan Johnsen, Ph.d. t the National Association for Gifted Children annual meeting in Albuquerque this fall, I attended an outstanding plenary session whose keynoters were the 1999 national winners of the Young Inventors and Creators Competition. This competition started as a special project to commemorate the bicentennial of the patent and copyright system. The com- petition recognizes students in grades 7–12 in eight areas (see Contests in this issue). The winners are selected by practicing professionals in the various fields. The students’ products at NAGC included a musical composition, poetry and short stories, a computer program, a painting, a sculpture, a photo, and five inventions that ranged from a perforated hycone to an aromatic solution to the perennial kitty litter odor problem. I was entranced by their stories. For the most part, they had worked at home to create these quality products—they needed space and time that were simply not provided in the school setting. While most of the young men and women praised their elementary experiences and their secondary men- tors, one young inventor described his overall high school experiences by stating matter-of- factly, “The copy machine dictates what is taught.” The audience laughed, but 
TI - The Copy Machine Dictates What is Taught
JF - Gifted Child Today
DO - 10.4219/gct-2000-709
DA - 2000-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/the-copy-machine-dictates-what-is-taught-pF9p09Go96
SP - 5
EP - 5
VL - 23
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -