Presentation given by Brian Housand, PhD at Confratute 2009 - University of Connecticut Part of Keynote Panel on Technology and Gifted with Joe Renzulli, Del Siegle, Brian Housand, and Kristina Ayers Paul

1. Gifted 2.0
Merging
into the
Future
Brian Housand, PhD
Confratute
July 21, 2009
http://tinyurl.com/brianhousand

2. Gi#ed Technology

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

7. Every generation of teenagers
embraces the freedoms and
possibilities wrought by technology
in ways that shock the elders.

9. “For the first
5me in history,
our jobs as
educators is to
prepare our
students for a
future that we
can not clearly
describe.”
David Warlick

10. The U.S. Department of Labor es5mates that
today’s high school seniors will have 10‐14 jobs
By age
38

11. The U.S. Department of Labor es5mates that
today’s high school seniors will have 10‐14 jobs
By age
38

12. hMp://www.21stcenturyskills.org/

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

16. Learning beyond the
classroom.

17. C

18. Content
Resources

23. 299,000,000 Searches Per Day

24. Knowledge alone is NOT enough.

25. C
reative
Outlets

26. Rather than running the risk of
having our students become
"walking encyclopedias," we
need to teach them how to
think crea5vely.
(Sternberg, 2006)

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

29. Pianos
NOT
Stereos

32. Critical
Thinking

34. I

35. This is as far as
most people get.

36. You do not want to miss this!
This is as far as
most people get.

37. You do not want to miss this!
Who said
what and
when.
This is as far as
most people get.

38. You do not want to miss this!
Who said
what and
when.
This is as far as Your chance to share
most people get. your knowledge.

39. C
ollaboration

41. The Internet is
Par5cipatory
Forcing Us To Learn
New Interfaces
Crea5ng New
Channels For Social
Interac5on

42. Years it
took to
reach a
market
audience
of 50
million
38 Years

43. Years it
took to
reach a
market
audience
of 50
million
13 Years

44. Years it
took to
reach a
market
audience
of 50
million
4 Years

45. Years it
took to
reach a
market
audience
of 50
million
3 Years

46. Years it
took to
reach a
market
audience
of 50
million
2 Years

47. China 1,334,962,000
India 1,161,290,000
United States 306,114,000
My Space 253,000,000
Indonesia 229,850,000
Brazil 190,929,000
FaceBook 175,000,000

48. The Less You Share,
The Less Power You Have.

49. C
itizenship

51. Critical Responsible
Consumers Producers

52. 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

55. “Media are mere vehicles that deliver
instruc5on but do not influence student
achievement any more than the truck that
delivers our groceries causes changes in our
nutri5on.”
(Clark, 1983)

56. The illiterate of
the 21st Century
will not be those
who cannot read
or write,
but those who cannot
LEARN, UNLEARN AND
RELEARN.
(Toffler, 1971)

58. http://tinyurl.com/brianhousand