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Technology and Gifted Students. Evelyn Wassel, Ed.D . Schuylkill IU29 July 2013. Curriculum and Instruction Planning. DI to Equip students with 21 st Century skills Inquiry Problem-solving skills Critical thinking Self-regulating skills Scaffold learning - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Technology and Gifted Students Evelyn Wassel, Ed.D. Schuylkill IU29 July 2013
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Technology and Gifted StudentsEvelyn Wassel, Ed.D.Schuylkill IU29July 2013

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Curriculum and Instruction Planning

DI to Equip students with 21st Century skills

Inquiry Problem-solving skills Critical thinking Self-regulating skills

Scaffold learning

Periathiruvadi, S. & Rinn, A.N.,Technology I Gifted Education: A Review of Best Practices and Empirical Research. JRTE, 45:2, 153-169.

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Math Curriculum

Facilitate open-ended problem-solving to think critically Graphing calculators Emulator programs On-line plotting programs Digital drawing tools

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Science Curriculum

Digital cameras and palm-held computers to work through stations to learn about environment

Need prior training Improve inquiry skills and scaffold

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Social Studies Curriculum

e-Publishing for creating student-authored books in elementary All students showed improvement in

assessment Gifted students showed most gains

Note-taking Cut & paste from Internet sites Students were selective

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Hypermedia learning environment

PBL Positive attitudes Equal performance

Self-regulation strategies Nonsequential manner to meet personal goals

for learning High levels of SRL strategies Summarized Coordinated info

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Programming Options

Acceleration, enrichment, individualized learning

Independent study, mentoring, internships, OL courses

Fostered HOTS, social skills Students looked for F-2-F Individual engagement and challenge

Textbooks and Internet

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Effective Learning Environments

Learner centered Independence InnovationGrouping optionsFlexible

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OnLine Desire to learn more Unavailability of F-2-F Set own pace Get ahead AP credit Extra coursework Advanced, challenging, self-paced

Missed social aspects Wanted textbooks Increase in AP scores

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How Can Technology Help the Gifted Student?

Meet academic needsServe social and emotional needs Increase engagement

Experts Research at achievement level Multimedia options for presentation Cooperative learning Connect to others with same interests

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Enrichment Clusters

Multigrade investigative groups based on constructivist learning methodology

Organized around major disciplines, interdisciplinary themes, or cross-disciplinary topics.

Grouped across grade levels by interests and focused toward the production of real-world products or services

Modeled after the ways in which knowledge utilization, thinking skills, and interpersonal relations took place in the real world

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Enrichment 2.0

Inquiry-based learning model where students select a topic, are grouped to work on the topic, and prepare an authentic product or service.

Allows students who are not physically in the same space to collaborate in an area of interest.

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Tools of the 21st Century

WikisSocial bookmarkingAggregatorsPodcastsCollaborative documentsBlogs

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Wikis

Wiki, the Hawaiian word for quick, is an easy-to-edit Web page that does not require programming knowledge

The “home” for Enrichment 2.0. Teacher sets up a wiki for each enrichment cluster.

Links to all other files, sources of information, and tools are placed on the main wiki page so that all students can access the information. Most wiki sites keep a chronological history for every

page, so nothing is lost forever and revisions can always be undone.

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Social Bookmarking

Students use social bookmarking such as del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us) to keep track of Internet sites with relevant information and share it with their classmates.

When a student locates an Internet site with relevant information, he or she can create an online bookmark of the site that other students can then refer to.

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Google Custom Search engine

Custom Search Engines – a Good Fit for your Library

Vertical search – focus your users on what matters most

Choose exactly which Web sites or pages your CSE searches across

CSE tool makes it easy to create your own search engine

Embed your CSE in Web pages or simply link to them. http://www.google.com/coop/cse/

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Google Custom Search Engine

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Google Custom Search Engine

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Google Custom Search Engine

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Google Custom Search Engine

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Motivate Them!!!

Motivation—Desire to learnDemonstrates persistence in pursuing and

completing self-selected tasks (school or non-school activities).

Expresses enthusiasm about learning.Aspires to be somebody or something. 

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What Interests Them?

Interest—Intentness, passion, concern, or curiosity about something.

Demonstrates unusual or advanced interest in a topic or activity.

Self-starts.

Pursues an activity unceasingly. 

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Communication

Communication—Highly expressive and effective in use of words, numbers and/or symbols.

Demonstrates unusual ability to communicate in one or more ways (verbally, physically, artistically, symbolically).

Uses particularly apt examples, illustrations, or elaborations.

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Problem Solving

Problem Solving—Effective, inventive strategies used to recognize and solve problems.

Demonstrates unusual ability to devise or adapt as systematic strategy for solving problems.

Changes strategies when the employed strategy is ineffective.

Creates new designs or inventions. 

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Memory

Memory—Retains and retrieves information. Already knows something that is assumed to

be new knowledge.Needs few repetitions for mastery.Has a wealth of information about school

and/or non-school topics.Pays attention to details.Manipulates information. 

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Inquiry

Inquiry—Questions, experiments, explores.Asks unusual questions for age.Plays around with ideas.Demonstrates extensive exploratory

behaviors directed at eliciting information.

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Insight

Insight—Grasps new concepts, makes connections, senses deeper meanings.

Demonstrates exceptional ability to draw inferences.

Appears to be a good guesser. Is keenly observant.Sees unusual and diverse relationships. Integrates ideas and disciplines. 

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Reasoning

Reasoning—Uses controlled, active, intentional, goal-oriented thought.

Makes generalizations.Uses metaphors and analogies.Thinks things through in a logical manner.Thinks critically. 

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Creativity

Produces many and/or highly original ideas.Shows exceptional ingenuity in using

everyday materials.Has wild, perhaps silly ideas.Produces ideas fluently or flexibly. Is highly curious. 

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Humor

  Humor—Brings heretofore unrelated ideas together in a

recognizable relationship. Uses a keen sense of humor – may be gentle or hostile. Has a large accumulation of information about

emotions. Sees unusual relationships. Demonstrates unusual emotional depth. Demonstrates sensory awareness.

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21st Century Competencies

       Creativity and Innovation        Critical thinking and problem solving        Agility, adaptability and capacity for lifelong

learning        Teamwork and collaboration in virtual teams        Initiative, self direction and entrepreneurialism        Effective oral and written communication        Proficiency in the mother tongue        Multiple languages and cultural awareness        Effectively accessing and analyzing information        Digital competence 


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