technology and gifted students evelyn wassel, ed.d. schuylkill iu29 pete & c 2014
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Technology and Gifted StudentsEvelyn Wassel, Ed.D.Schuylkill IU29PETE & C 2014
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.
Math Curriculum
Facilitate open-ended problem-solving to think critically Graphing calculators Emulator programs On-line plotting programs Digital drawing tools
Science Curriculum
Digital cameras and palm-held computers to work through stations to learn about environment
Need prior training
Improve inquiry skills and scaffold
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
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
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
Effective Learning Environments
Learner centered
Independence
Innovation
Grouping options
Flexible
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
Blended Learning…
“…allows gifted students to seek their own level; they can move at their own pace without hitting the glass ceiling that often exists in traditional public schools”
Elfi Sanderson
Northwestern University
How Can Technology Help the Gifted Student?
Meet academic needs
Serve social and emotional needs
Increase engagement Experts Research at achievement level Multimedia options for presentation Cooperative learning Connect to others with same interests
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
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.
Enrichment 2.0
Tools of the 21st Century
Wikis
Social bookmarking
Aggregators
Podcasts
Collaborative documents
Blogs
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.
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.
https://delicious.com/stanshum
Del.icio.us
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/
Google Custom Search Engine
Google Custom Search Engine
Google Custom Search Engine
Google Custom Search Engine
They often display a questioning attitude and seek information for its own sake as much as for its usefulness.
They exhibit an intrinsic motivation to learn, find out, or explore and are often very persistent. "I'd rather do it myself" is a common attitude.
Motivate Them!!!
Their interests are both wildly eclectic and intensely focused.
They like to learn new things, are willing to examine the unusual, and are highly inquisitive.
They may read a great deal on their own, preferring books and magazines written for children older than they are.
What Interests Them?
WebPoster Wizard
Web Poster Wizard
Example Poster
Web Poster Wizard
Use the following information when creating your poster. Type values exactly as shown.
Class Name: PETEGifted
Teacher's name: Dr. Wassel
Class code: 237282
Gifted children often read widely, quickly, and intensely and have large vocabularies.
They usually respond and relate well to parents, teachers, and other adults. They may prefer the company of older children and adults to that of their peers.
They can be less intellectually inhibited than their peers are in expressing opinions and ideas, and they often disagree spiritedly with others' statements.
Communication
Meeting Burner
They tackle tasks and problems in a well-organized, goal-directed, and efficient manner.
They are flexible thinkers, able to use many different alternatives and approaches to problem solving.
They are elaborate thinkers, producing new steps, ideas, responses, or other embellishments to a basic idea, situation, or problems.
They are willing to entertain complexity and seem to thrive on problem solving.
Problem Solving
SCRATCH
SAS Website
http://itsisu.portal.concord.org/activities/45.jnlp?teacher_mode=true
Jog the Web
JOG THE WEB is a web-based tool that allows anyone to create a synchronous guide to a series of web sites.
Its step by step approach of taking viewers through web sites allowing the author to annotate and ask guiding questions for each page is unique.
http://www.jogtheweb.com/run/eqyMZJemBlcT/Concord-Resources#1
EdHeads
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.
Free Rice
Inquiry
They often display a questioning attitude and seek information for its own sake as much as for its usefulness.
They can readily construct hypotheses or "what if" questions.
Nobel Prize Educational Productions
http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/
http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/bloodtypinggame/index.html
BIOINTERACTIVE
Free resources for science teachers and students, including animations, short films, and apps.
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive
They often pick up and interpret nonverbal cues and can draw inferences that other children need to have spelled out for them.
They are good guessers.
Gifted children are fluent thinkers, able to generate possibilities, consequences, or related ideas.
Insight
Exploratree
Free online library of thinking guides
Print them out or fill in and complete your project on the exploratree website
Build up a personal portfolio of useful thinking guides
Change or customise them using images, text and shapes
http://www.exploratree.org.uk/
Reasoning
They tackle tasks and problems in a well-organized, goal-directed, and efficient manner.
They readily grasp underlying principles and can often make valid generalizations about events, people, or objects.
Gifted children are fluent thinkers, able to generate possibilities, consequences, or related ideas.
They are flexible thinkers, able to use many different alternatives and approaches to problem solving.
They are original thinkers, seeking new, unusual, or unconventional associations and combinations among items of information.
Intel Seeing Reason Tool
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/education/k12/thinking-tools/seeing-reason.html
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.
Bomomo
Create abstract art pictures in your browser. Works only with Firefox and Safari browsers.
There are 18 different drawing brushes to choose from.
Donwload and Save ready art to your computer.
No sign up or registration required.
Story Starters K-6
Story Starters K-6
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.
http://www.gocomics.com/explore/editorials
http://mashable.com/2010/10/24/create-your-own-comics/
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
“We ignore high-potential students at our peril. If they are not challenged, they can disengage and even drop out due to boredom. These students are a key to our future international competitiveness, job creation, and civic leadership. Squandering this natural resource is a price we cannot afford.”
Dan Peters
Lovett & Ruth Peters Foundation