Creativity and Giftedness
in a Digital Age
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Dr. Brian C. Housand
housandb@ecu.edu
Pitt County PAGE
March 23, 2009

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Techie Educator
Gifted Researcher

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Why Do We
Ask Kids To
UNPLUG At
School?

Learning beyond the
classroom.

If technology is an event in
your school,
you are doing it wrong.
Josh Allen

http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/

Learning and Innovation Skills
and
21st Creativity
Century
Innovation
Skills
Critical Thinking and
Problem Solving
Learning
Communication and
and
Innovatio
Collaboration
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The Rise of the Creative Class
50%
45%
40%
35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
Agriculture Working Service Creative
Florida, R. (2002). The rise of the creative class (p. 332). New York, NY: Basic Books.

Pianos
NOT
Stereos

Computer Technology
“is not a tool;
it is a new material for expression.”
(Maeda, 2001)

Rather than running the risk of
having our students become
\"walking encyclopedias,\" we
need to teach them how to
think creatively.
(Sternberg, 2006)

Knowledge alone is NOT enough.

Tech Tools
You Should
Know and
Use

Google Earth
#1
http://earth.google.com/

Podcasts and iTunes
#2 U
http://www.apple.com/education/mobile-
learning/
http://ocw.mit.edu/

Skype / Twitter
#3
http://www.skype.com/
http://twitter.com/
Please Follow Me:
brianhousand

SCRATCH
#4
http://scratch.mit.edu/

Wikipedia
#5

What are
New
Literacies?
(Leu, Kinzer, Coiro, and Cammack, 2004)

New Literacies
(Leu, Kinzer, Coiro, and Cammack, 2004)
IDENTIFY Important Questions
LOCATE Information
CRITICALLY EVALUATE Information
SYNTHESIZE Information
COMMUNICATE Answers

This is where the REAL
Who said
information is.
what and
when.
This is as far as Your chance to share
most people get. your knowledge.

One More Thing….
The Glories of
Google!!!!

Critical Responsible
Consumers Producers

The Internet is
Participatory
Forcing Us To Learn
New Interfaces
Creating New
Channels For Social
Interaction

253,000,000+
175,000,000+

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The Less You Share,
The Less Power You Have.

“For the first time
in history, our jobs
as educators is to
prepare our
students for a
future that we can
not clearly
describe.”
David Warlick

One thing is
clear. 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

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)

The Future Is NOW!

tyvm
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