A NEW HOPE - MEGT
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The document discusses the challenges and importance of gifted education in the 21st century, emphasizing the need for students to acquire critical skills like creativity, innovation, and technology integration. It warns that an outdated educational approach could render American children ill-equipped in a rapidly evolving technological landscape. The text advocates for a shift towards more engaging and relevant learning experiences that incorporate real-world problem-solving and technology use.
A NEW HOPE - MEGT
- 1. Gifted Education In the 21st Century a new HOPE Brian Housand, PhD brianhousand.com bit.ly/megt2012
- 3. #megt
- 4. Geek Gifted Educator Researcher
- 5. Hawaii Minnesota North Carolina California 2012 Georgia Montana Pennsylvania New York Nova Scotia Connecticut Idaho Virginia Colorado Texas
- 6. I Informing & M Motivating 2012 P People A About C Creativity & T Technology
- 9. 21st A NEW Creating Century Skills? HOPE Alliance
- 10. 1977
- 14. A long time ago in a school far, far away...
- 17. Benjamin Bloom 1913 - 1999
- 18. E. Paul Torrance 1915 - 2003
- 19. Julian Stanley 1918 - 2005
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- 23. p21.org
- 24. 4,419
- 25. “The Nation that dramatically and boldly led the world into the age of technology is failing to provide its own children with the intellectual tools needed for the 21st century.”
- 26. We continue to lead because our best students are still unsurpassed. We we continue to lead because our universities, industries, resources, and affluence attract the finest talent from throughout the world.
- 27. BUT this is a PRECARIOUS Advantage
- 28. The world is changing FAST. Technological KNOW-HOW is spreading throughout the world; Along with the knowledge that such SKILLS and SOPHISTICATION are the basic CAPITAL of tomorrow’s society.
- 29. Already the QUALITY of our manufactured products, the VIABILITY of our trade, our leadership in RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT, and our standards of living are strongly challenged.
- 30. Our children could be STRAGGLERS in a world of technology.
- 32. AMERICA MUST NOT BECOME AN INDUSTRIAL DINOSAUR
- 33. WE MUST NOT provide our children a 1960s education for a 21st Century WORLD.
- 35. www.p21.org Learning and Innovation Skills Creativity and Innovation Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Communication and Collaboration
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- 37. Creativity & Innovation 1. Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes. 2. Create original works as a means of personal or group expression. 3. Use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues. 4. Identify trends and forecast possibilities.
- 39. PK - 2 Identify, research, and collect data on an environmental issue using digital resources and propose a solution.
- 40. 3-5 Produce a media-rich digital story about a significant local event based on first-person interviews.
- 41. 6-8 Create original animations or videos documenting school, community, or local events.
- 42. 9 - 12 Design, develop, and test a digital learning game to demonstrate knowledge and skills related to curriculum content.
- 43. 10,000
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- 48. If your students can the answer, then you may be asking the wrong question.
- 52. Keep technology in the hands of students
- 54. Why+Do+We+Ask+ Kids+To+UNPLUG+ At+School?
- 55. DID
- 56. “Every generation of teenagers embraces the freedoms and possibilities wrought by technology in ways that shock the elders.” Time+ March+27,+2006
- 57. 80%
- 59. Tear down the wall
- 61. We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.
- 63. RE:Search
- 65. “Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside of him.” -- Ernest Hemingway
- 66. NEW LITERACIES newliteracies.uconn.edu/ IDENTIFY Important Questions LOCATE Information CRITICALLY EVALUATE SYNTHESIZE Information COMMUNICATE Answers
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- 68. RE:Connect
- 71. The whole process of education should thus be conceived as the process of learning to think through the solution of real problems. -- John Dewey, 1938
- 72. Real World Problems Academic Rigor Technology Integration www.ecugifted.com
- 73. Re:Create
- 75. Pianos NOT Stereos (Resnick, 1996)
- 76. Plugging Into Creative Outlets Brian C. Housand Angela M. Housand Gifted Education Communicator Spring 2011 Vol. 42, No. 1
- 77. 20%
- 78. Computers serve best when they allow everything to change. (Papert, 1993)
- 80. Think GLOBAL ACT Local
- 82. REPORT TO THE PRINCIPAL’S OFFICE http://bit.ly/gt-office
- 83. Googleable
- 86. “We don’t have the option of turning away from the future. No one gets to vote on whether technology is going to change our lives.” Bill Gates The Road Ahead