From this Saturday at noon, on the occasion of the beginning of the school year, the RTS First Program will start a quiz for children "NTC Quiz". Why is it important, because this is the first children's quiz on local television after ten years, and because it is not a quiz of knowledge and information, but a quiz of thinking skills and techniques in which children are extremely successful.
It is called "NTC" because it is an abbreviation of "Nikola Tesla Center", which is the department of MENSE for gifted children, according to whose method "Learning through play" was implemented.
The quiz has seven standard games and each game represents one NTC technique that exercises associative thinking, listening attention, concentration, thinking in motion, creating and remembering illogical stories. By competing in a team, they learn that two heads are better than one, and four than two, and the qualification and final episodes showed that the most successful teams were those that played as a team.
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Jelena Popadić Sumić, editor and screenwriter of "NTC Quiz", says that "64 contestants, 64 little people with their defined characters, passed through the quiz and it was fascinating to watch them go through the games, through learning teamwork, through the great desire to win points, through wins and losses."
"There is little media space in which a child gets a chance to show what he can really do and know... And I don't mean the media exploitation of an individual child, but systemic visibility and evaluation: where we grew up in relation to children, and who is a child today", says Jelena Popadić Sumić.
He adds "that it is commonplace that today's children are uninterested, blasé... And that terrible judgment does not take into account that there are also brilliant children, like the contestants of this quiz." They were full of emotions, flushed, happy, sad, they really cared. And none of them knew if there was a reward waiting at the end. They cared about the game! And that makes a child a child."
There was, of course, Jelena Popadić Sumić, "and annoyance, and crying, and consoling, there were also inconsolable ones. But, both as a parent and as a creator for children, I believe that these emotions are legitimate, no less important for the development and understanding of the world. And if one of them learns through this game that in life they will both win and lose, and that none of those victories and defeats are fatal and final, we have succeeded."
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