This homepage is designed to support the presentation and workshop on Gifted and Talented and Learning for the 21st century. The resources here are not exhaustive, but serve to illustrate type types of strategies and knowledges that educators can access to enhance creativity for students.
The inquiry application link at the top of the page links to the mini inquiry for the workshop.
Below is posted the powerpoint for both the keynote presentation and the workshop.
Additional videos of interest are embedded at the bottom of the page.
Enjoy the journey of inquiry!!!
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Talent for the 21st Century: Pedagogy that Challenges Minds and Motivates Creativity - Workshop Overview
Teachers, learning environments and students of the 21st century are vastly different from those found in the 20th century. Neo millennial students have always known an electronically media rich world. Digital age students have high comfort levels with e learning tools i.e. computers, internet, gaming devices, and smart phones. Digital age highly qualified teachers need to be able to implement student centered, problem based learning experiences utilizing the e tools that populate the world of today’s students.
Gifted and talented pedagogy, supported by technology, will be the context of the workshop. Participants will engage in an example interdisciplinary, inquiry learning experience through which they will discover education that fosters deep, contextual learning. Following the experience, participants will analyze the educational example to determine how the learning aligns with global standards for inquiry, technology integration and global awareness.
The workshop agenda is as follows:
Test your Creativity
Teaching for Creativity – Example Strategies
Inquiry Learning Experience
Inquiry Throughout the Curriculum
Gifted and talented pedagogy, supported by technology, will be the context of the workshop. Participants will engage in an example interdisciplinary, inquiry learning experience through which they will discover education that fosters deep, contextual learning. Following the experience, participants will analyze the educational example to determine how the learning aligns with global standards for inquiry, technology integration and global awareness.
The workshop agenda is as follows:
Test your Creativity
Teaching for Creativity – Example Strategies
Inquiry Learning Experience
Inquiry Throughout the Curriculum
Saturday, October 16, 2010
21st Century Students - Generation C
As teachers enter classrooms, many of their neomillennial students consider electronic communication and search tools a natural extension of their appendages. Brain research states that the neural development of youth today is observably different from earlier generations. Neomillenials live media-based life styles. Research on Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVE) and augmented reality learning experiences such as second life simulations supports neomillineal learning styles (NLS) i.e.
1. Fluency in multiple media for communication and personal expression
2. Learning based on collective seeking sieving and synthesizing experiences rather than individually locating and absorbing information from a single best source
3. Active learning based on both real and simulated experiences that include frequent opportunities for reflection
1. Fluency in multiple media for communication and personal expression
2. Learning based on collective seeking sieving and synthesizing experiences rather than individually locating and absorbing information from a single best source
3. Active learning based on both real and simulated experiences that include frequent opportunities for reflection
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