The document discusses using technology to engage gifted learners through higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) challenges. It recommends using familiar software like Keynote, ComicLife, and GarageBand as well as Web 2.0 tools like Wordle, Google Docs, Glogster, and Prezi to encourage analysis, evaluation, and creation in line with Bloom's revised taxonomy of learning domains. Specific apps and websites are presented as examples for digital storytelling, brainstorming, providing feedback, and collaborating online.

1. USING TECHNOLOGY
EFFECTIVELY WITH
GIFTED LEARNERS
Susan Watt
Technology Support Teacher
Friday, March 25, 2011

2. LET’S LOOK AT ...
Bloom’s Taxonomy - the old and the NEW
Familiar software >> HOTS challenges for
gifted learners
Web 2.o tools >> HOTS challenges for
gifted learners
http://www.hots.org/

3. BLOOMS, OLD / NEW
http://projects.coe.uga.edu/epltt/index.php?title=Image:Bloom_1.jpg

4. BLOOMS FOR 21ST CENTURY
http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/01/20/using-a-smartboard-for-higher-level-thinking-skills/

5. BLOOMS 2.0
http://www.usi.edu/distance/bdt.htm

6. FAMILIAR SOFTWARE >>>
HOTS CHALLENGES
Keynote
ComicLife
GarageBand - Podcasts
Kidspiration, Inspiration
iMovie (Digital Storytelling)

7. WEB 2.0 TOOLS >>>
HOTS CHALLENGES
Wordle Glogster
Google Docs Prezi
TodaysMeet
Voicethread
http://bit.ly/141h84

8. William
Shakespeare or
Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle??
Wordle

9. WE ♥ GOOGLE DOCS
Documents
Spreadsheets
Forms
Presentations http://news.cnet.com/google-docs-suffers-privacy-glitch/

10. HTTP://TODAYSMEET.COM/HOTS
When to use ...
for brainstorming ideas
to offer comments or feedback during a presentation
during a movie or read aloud
during a meeting

11. VOICE-
THREAD
http://voicethread.com/?
#u1002681.b1674028.i8828645

12. GLOGSTER
http://mswatt.edu.glogster.com/juliep/

13. PREZI
http://prezi.com/bi2jrvg-adln/digital-citizenship/