This document summarizes a presentation about using Web 2.0 tools and Google Apps to engage and challenge gifted students. It discusses research showing that approximately 6% of students are gifted, and challenges in meeting their needs. It then provides examples of 12 tools like Glogster, VoiceThread, and Edmodo that teachers can use. Finally, it outlines features of Google Apps like Docs, Sites, and Forms and how they can be used to differentiate instruction, provide feedback, and connect classrooms. The overall message is that these free online resources can help teachers better serve gifted students.
13. Students, children, or youth
who give evidence of high
achievement capability in areas
such as intellectual, creative,
artistic, or leadership capacity,
or in specific academic fields,
and who need services and
activities not ordinarily
provided by the school in
order to fully develop those
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14. NAGC estimates that, in
the US, there are
approximately 3 million
academically gifted
children
in grades K-12
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49. Google Apps Education Edition
offers a free (and ad-free) set of
customizable tools that enable
faculty, staff and students to work
together and learn more effectively.
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53. Monitor and
Provide Feedback
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54. Monitor and
Provide Feedback
The most effective grading practices provide
accurate, specific, timely feedback designed to
improve student performance (Marzano 2000,
2007; O'Connor, 2007).
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