The document discusses different types of classrooms and gifted education. It compares traditional classrooms to gifted classrooms and classrooms of the future. It discusses how gifted education is different by focusing on skills like critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, communication, and citizenship. It emphasizes teaching students to think through solving real problems and answering real world problems with real world solutions using technology.

1. Dr. Liz Fogarty & Dr. Brian Housand East Carolina UniversityTuesday, March 1, 2011

2. http://ecugifted.com

3. http://brianhousand.com

4. What does a traditional classroom look like?

5. What does a GIFTED classroom look like?

6. What does aclassroom ofTHE FUTURE look like?

11. How is GIFTED EDUCATION different?

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

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

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

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17. ContentResources

18. 299,000,000 Searches Per Day

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21. http://www.ted.com

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

24. Knowledge alone is NOT enough.

25. Creative Outlets

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

28. Sir Ken Robinson We are educating people out of their creativity. Creativity is as important in education as literacy.

30. PianosNOTStereos

32. Critical Thinking

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

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36. New LiteraciesIDENTIFY Important QuestionsLOCATE InformationCRITICALLY EVALUATESYNTHESIZE InformationCOMMUNICATE Answers

37. Collaboration

38. www.p21.orgCollaborate with OthersDemonstrate ability to work effectively and respectfully with diverse teamsExercise flexibility and willingness to be helpful in making necessary compromises to accomplish a common goalAssume shared responsibility for collaborative work, and value the individual contributions made by each team member

39. Communication and CollaborationStudents use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.

40. Communication and CollaborationInteract, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media.Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.Develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of other cultures.Contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems.

42. Citizenship

43. http://tinyurl.com/pbsnative

45. ResponsibleProducersCritical Consumers

48. The whole process of education should thus be conceived as the process of learning to think through the solution of real problems.-- John Dewey, 1938

49. Interest and Rigor Lead To Creative Productivity“We need students to get more deeply interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know, to have projects that they can get excited about and work on over long periods of time, to be stimulated to find things out on their own.”

50. Answering Real World Problemswith Real World Solutions usingReal World Technology

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

53. tyvmB-)http://brianhousand.com