This document discusses gifted education in the 21st century and the need for change. It promotes incorporating technology, focusing on real-world problems, and developing skills like creativity, critical thinking, and communication. References are made to pioneers in gifted education from the past and promoting new literacies and a student-centered approach for the future of education.

1. Gifted Education In the 21st Century
a new
HOPE
Brian Housand, PhD
East Carolina University
brianhousand.com
bit.ly/pdk-hope

2. brianhousand.com

3. Geek Gifted
Educator Researcher

4. ecugi&ed.com

7. Avenues to Professional
Learning Online
Catherine A. Little
Brian C. Housand
Gifted Child Today
Fall 2011
Vol. 34, No. 4

8. Tear Down That
FIREWALL!
Teaching for High Potential
Fall 2011
Interacting with Maps and
Playing with History
Gifted Education Communicator
Fall 2011

9. Minnesota
Georgia
Montana
2012 California
Pennsylvania
Nova Scotia
Connecticut
Idaho
Virginia

11. 1977

15. A long time ago in a school far,
far away...

16. Benjamin
Bloom
1913 - 1999

17. E. Paul
Torrance
1915 - 2003

18. Julian
Stanley
1918 - 2005

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23. www.p21.org
Learning and Innovation Skills
Creativity and Innovation
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Communication and Collaboration

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27. If your students can
the answer, then you
may be asking the
wrong question.

28. Keep
technology in
the hands of
students

30. Why Do We Ask
Kids To UNPLUG
At School?

31. DID

32. “Every generation of
teenagers embraces
the freedoms and
possibilities wrought
by technology in ways
that shock the elders.”
Time
March 27, 2006

33. Tear down
the wall

35. 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.

36. 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.

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42. “Every man
should have a
built-in
automatic
crap detector
operating
inside of him.”
-- Ernest Hemingway

44. NEW LITERACIES
newliteracies.uconn.edu/
IDENTIFY Important Questions
LOCATE Information
CRITICALLY EVALUATE
SYNTHESIZE Information
COMMUNICATE Answers

45. Re:Create

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NOT
Stereos (Resnick, 1996)

48. Plugging Into
Creative Outlets
Brian C. Housand
Angela M. Housand
Gifted Education
Communicator
Spring 2011
Vol. 42, No. 1

49. 20%

50. RE:Connect

56. Real World Problems
Academic Rigor
Technology Integration

57. The whole process of
educaJon should
thus be conceived
as the process of
learning to think
through the
soluJon of real
problems.
‐‐ John Dewey, 1938

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60. “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

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brianhousand.com