This document provides information for parents on empowering gifted students with technology. It discusses the importance of teaching gifted children that it is okay and even awesome to be smart. It promotes exposing children to online educational resources like crashcourse, Vihart, Khan Academy, and coding websites. The document emphasizes that children should have agency over their digital experiences and creativity through activities like making movies or games. It cites research showing computer and video game use can boost creativity. Overall, the summary encourages empowering children to be producers and creators with technology rather than just consumers.

1. TODAY’S TECHNOLOGY
+ GIFTED STUDENTS__________________________
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What Parents Need To Know

2. Brian
H E L L O
My name is

3. I AM A
GEEK

6. “Raising geeks goes beyond
teaching them the difference
between Darths Vader and Maul.
It means teaching them an
empowering worldview.”
WIRED - JUNE 2012

7. TALK TO YOUR KIDS
ABOUT BEING
GIFTED

8. bit.ly/nagc-parents

9. You have a right to…
• know about your giftedness.
• learn something new everyday.
• be passionate about your talent area without
apologies.
• have an identity beyond your talent area.
• feel good about your accomplishments.
• make mistakes.
• seek guidance in the development of your talent.
• have multiple peer groups and a variety of
friends.
• choose which of your talent areas you wish to
pursue.
• not to be gifted at everything.
Gifted Children’s Bill of Rights

11. It is OK
to be smart.

12. It is GREAT
to be smart.

13. It is AWESOME
to be smart.

14. DFTBADON’T FORGET TO BE AWESOME

15. youtube.com/user/crashcourse

16. youtube.com/user/Vihart

17. “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

18. EF
2 THEIR
OWN
DEVICES

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

20. REALITY

21. 3,339

24. DIGITAL
PARENTING
STYLE

25. PROTECT
AND LIMIT
Parents need to set boundaries to keep
children safe.
Digital media and technology are not
important for a child's healthy development.

26. PROTECT
Screen media needs to be balanced with
other activities.
Children are only one click away from a lot of
material that's inappropriate for them.

27. EMPOWER
Children can learn new things by using
online media.
Parents should offer guidance on how
to use the Internet for learning.

28. EMPOWER
AND ENGAGE
Children need to learn to navigate the digital
world and make choices for themselves.
Children can exercise their creativity by using
online media.

30. House
Rules

31. Show
Curiosity

32. “Show Me”

33. I like that.
I don’t
like that.

34. WONDER
AND LEARN

35. wonderopolis.org

36. coursera.org

37. iTunes U

38. KHANACADEMY

39. CLICK HERE
THEN
HERE

40. roadtripnation.com/roadmap

41. roadtripnation.com/roadmap

42. googlesciencefair.com/springboard

43. FAMILY
MOVIE
NIGHT

45. We are educa3ng people
out of their crea3vity.
Crea3vity is as important
in educa3on as literacy.
Sir Ken Robinson

48. CONSUMERS
PRODUCERS

49. MAKE A
MOVIE

50. iMovie Trailers

51. LEGO Movie Maker

56. $40,000
PER MONTH

57. VIDEO
GAMES

62. Jackson, L. A., Witt, E. A., Games, A. I., Fitzgerald, H. E., von Eye, A., & Zhao, Y. (2012). Information technology use and creativity: Findings from the Children and technology Project.
Computers in Human Behavior, 28(2), 370-376.
CREATIVITY
COMPUTER
USE
INTERNET
USE
CELL
PHONE
USE
VIDEO
GAME
PLAY

63. Jackson, L. A., Witt, E. A., Games, A. I., Fitzgerald, H. E., von Eye, A., & Zhao, Y. (2012). Information technology use and creativity: Findings from the Children and technology Project.
Computers in Human Behavior, 28(2), 370-376.
CREATIVITY
VIDEO
GAME
PLAY

64. Video games teach
children what computers
are beginning to teach
adults--that some forms of
learning are fast-paced,
immensely compelling,
and rewarding.
- Seymour Papert

65. The fact that they are
enormously demanding of
one's time and require new
ways of thinking remains a
small price to pay (and is
perhaps even an
advantage) to be vaulted
into the future. - Seymour Papert

66. Not surprisingly,
by comparison school strikes
many young people as
slow, boring, and frankly
out of touch.
- Seymour Papert

68. If you are
impatient
then this may
not be the
gAme for you

69. “There is
nothing
that is NOT
possible.”

70. SURVIVAL
OR
CREATIVE

71. UNLIMITED
You can make it into
whatever you want it to be.

72. FOR aLL INTENTS aND PURPOSES,
IT IS A SPACE WHERE
YOU ARE GOD

73. C R E A T I V I T Y
C R I T I C A L T H I N K I N G
C O O P E R A T I O N
C O L L A B O R A T I O N
C O M M U N I C A T I O N
C O N T R O L

76. stemchallenge.org

78. gamestarmechanic.com

79. ITECH

80. FORGETTHEi
TECHNOLOGY!

100. LEARN
TO CODE

102. code.org/learn

103. codecademy.com

104. codecombat.com

110. 400,000
DOWNLOADS!

111. appinventor.mit.edu

112. 0.4%OF FEMALE COLLEGE FRESHMAN PLAN
ON MAJORING IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

115. D I Y

118. makeymakey.com

119. diy.org

127. “We may not be able to
prepare the future for
our children,
but at least we can
prepare our children
for the future.”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

128. Krissy Venosdale
How about instead of of just
preparing kids for the future we
EMPOWER them to CREATE it?

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