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Ideas for Empowering and Engaging GIFTED KIDS

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Ideas for Empowering and Engaging GIFTED KIDS

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  1. IDEAS FOR ENGAGING AND EMPOWERING GIFTED KIDS __________________________ GAGC Parent Day - March 9, 2014 Dr. Brian Housand

  2. brianhousand.com

  3. “Raising geeks goes beyond teaching them the difference between Darths Vader and Maul. It means teaching them an empowering worldview.” WIRED - JUNE 2012

  4. WONDER AND LEARN

  5. wonderopolis.com

  6. coursera.org

  7. iTunes U

  8. youtube.com/user/Vihart

  9. KHAN ACADEMY

  10. duolingo.com

  11. BECOME A BETTER SEARCHER

  12. The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot LEARN, UNLEARN AND RELEARN. (Toffler, 1970)

  13. Fiction from Truth using Evidence

  14. agoogleaday.com

  15. google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation

  16. FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT

  17. ? ?   Sir Ken Robinson ? ?   ?     We  are  educa)ng  people   out  of  their  crea)vity.     Crea)vity  is  as  important   in  educa)on  as  literacy.  

  18. cosmosontv.com

  19. Rather than running the risk of having our students become ? W A L K I N G ENCYCLOPEDIAS? we need to TEACH them how to? THINK CREATIVELY. (Sternberg,  2006)

  20. PRODUCERS CONSUMERS

  21. MAKE A MOVIE

  22. iMovie Trailers

  23. LEGO Movie Maker

  24. bit.ly/middleschooldrawntolife

  25. PHOTO CHALLENGE

  26. five frames http://www.flickr.com/groups/visualstory/

  27. flickr five frames 1st photo: ? establish ? characters and location

  28. flickr five frames 2nd photo: create a situation with possibilities of what might happen

  29. flickr five frames 3rd photo: ? involve the characters in the situation

  30. flickr five frames 4th photo: ? build to ? probable outcomes

  31. flickr five frames 5th photo: ? have a logical ? but surprising end

  32. ? “Gifted  means  you  have  abilities  to  do  stuff  others  may  not  be  able  to  do,  even  if  they  are  not   easy.    This  tree  is  growing  in  the  shade  under  a  step….that’s  not  easy.”

  33. “As  a  gifted  learner  I  feel  that  I  am  different;     I  am  a  leader;  and  I  am  powerful!”  

  34. “Giftedness  means  you   can  be  talented  in  some   things  but  not  at  others;   you  swing  back  and  forth   at  the  things  you  are  good   at  and  the  things  you  are   not.”

  35. VIDEO GAMES

  36. COMPUTER USE INTERNET USE CREATIVITY CELL PHONE USE VIDEO GAME PLAY Jackson, L. A., Witt, E. A., Games, A. I., Fitzgerald, H. E., von Eye, A., & Zhao, Y. (2012). Information technology use and creativity: Findings from the Children and technology Project. Computers in Human Behavior, 28(2), 370-376.

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