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How education can enhance intelligence and thinking

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Choose two of the factors that enhance intelligence and thinking.
- environment
- life choices
- will/volition
- life experiences
- genes

Defend how this factor is most important to enhance intelligence. Next, describe how you believe negative experiences with this factor may impact thinking and learning. Lastly reflect and share a strategy you may use in the classroom to support the learner in thinking.

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Factors that enhance intelligence and thinking when evaluating genes and environment are discussed.

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The negative aspect of genes is that there is little that can be done to moderate the value or obstacle related to the outcome.

What happens to infants and toddlers is critical for the future elementary students. Genes are not as much an issue as what provokes synapse development up to three years of age. The brain synapses are ...

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