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VISIONS OF THE FUTURE Little Rock 2016
This document discusses perspectives on the role of technology in developing giftedness and talent. It explores how technology can transform education from a focus on hunting and gathering information to curating content. Examples are given of technological tools and platforms that can serve as playgrounds for creativity, exploration and discovery. The importance of cultivating curiosity, courage and constancy is emphasized. Overall, the document advocates embracing technology to fuel curiosity and prepare students for an unknown future.
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Presents perspectives on technology's role in gifted education and talent development.
Focuses on transitioning from gathering to curating content, emphasizing curiosity, confidence, and creativity.
Focuses on transitioning from gathering to curating content, emphasizing curiosity, confidence, and creativity.
Discusses devices for unique student experiences, emphasizing depth and complexity in learning.
Discusses devices for unique student experiences, emphasizing depth and complexity in learning.
Explores the impact of uncertainty on creativity and how confusion can lead to innovation.
Features lesson ideas to foster exploration, encouraging students to embrace mistakes for deeper understanding.
Features lesson ideas to foster exploration, encouraging students to embrace mistakes for deeper understanding.
Highlights curiosity as an essential trait for innovation and personal growth.
Urges reclaiming the future through inspiration, teaching, and fostering curiosity.
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- 1. VISIONS OF THEFUTURE brianhousand.com/lrsd2016 Perspectives on the Role of Technology in the Future of Gifted Education and Talent Development
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- 4. FROM CURIOUS TOCREATIVE
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- 15. IQ = Curiosity+ Effort (von Stumm, Hell, and Camorro-Premuzic, 2011)
- 16. “I have no special talent. Iam only passionately curious.”
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- 20. Cat killer or Breederof invention? Curiosity,
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- 23. These devices are designedto present material to the student of a kind that would not be available to him in his ordinary school experience.
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- 28. I am interestedin _______________.
- 29. I am interestedin _______________.EVERYTHING!
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- 35. I am interestedin _______________.LANGUAGES
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- 39. WHAT DOES IT MEANTO BE STUCK?
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- 47. HEIGHTEN ANTICIPATION STIMULATE INTEREST DEEPENUNDERSTANDING EXTEND THE EXPERIENCE
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- 49. TYPE III INDEPENDENT ORSMALL GROUP INVESTIGATIONS PRODUCTS AND/OR PERFORMANCES TYPE I GENERAL EXPLORATORY ACTIVITIES TYPE II METHODOLOGICAL TRAINING / HOW-TO ACTIVITIES (Renzulli, 1977)
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- 61. I am interestedin _______________.NOTHING
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- 67. SURPRISE AWE INTERESTCONFUSION
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- 72. NO ONE -not Walt, not Steve, not the people of Pixar - ever achieved creative success by clinging to what used to work.
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- 74. LESSON IDEA #1 INVITESTUDENTS TO FIND MISTAKES
- 78. LESSON IDEA #2 ARGUEFROM AN ALIEN VIEWPOINT
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- 81. LESSON IDEA #3 PROVIDE ASSIGNMENTS THATSTUDENTS WILL FAIL
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- 84. SAGE ON THESTAGE GUIDE ON THE SIDE
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- 87. Emphasize the current topicsof debate in a field. 4
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- 90. Invite guest speakers toshare the mysteries they’re exploring. 5
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- 93. Show how the processof discovery is often messy and non-linear. 6
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- 100. As the volumeof media has grown exponentially, our propensity to explore it is diminishing. Danny Cohen / BBC1
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- 104. “The most successful Imagineersare those who see ‘this is new to me’ as an opportunity, not a barrier. Josh Gorin
- 105. They are willingto go outside their comfort zone in the interest of expanding their horizons and gaining new perspectives.” Josh Gorin
- 106. “Constantly ask questions, learnhow things work, try new and exciting things, and you’ll build up a strong base of experiences and an ongoing curiosity that will serve you well at WDI and in life.” Josh Gorin
- 107. Around here wedon’t look backwards for very long… We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things because we’re curious, and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
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- 123. Everything is amazing.... and nobody’shappy. Louis C.K.
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- 127. IT’S TIME TO TAKE THEFUTURE BACK!
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- 134. September 12, 1962 RiceUniversity
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- 138. There's a greatbig beautiful tomorrow, Shining at the end of every day, There's a great big beautiful tomorrow, And tomorrow's just a dream away.
- 139. rst, THINK. Second, BELIEVE. Third,DREAM. And finally, DARE.
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- 142. “I have cometo believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few of these as there are of any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”
- 143. She breathed curiosity intous so that we brought in facts or truths shielded in our hands like captured butterflies.
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- 149. If you candream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started by a mouse.
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