This document discusses how technology impacts gifted students and provides a parent's guide to the digital generation. It notes that today's students are immersed in technology from a young age and are comfortable with the internet, social media, and mobile devices. It emphasizes that schools should integrate technology into learning rather than see it as a distraction. It provides examples of online resources and tools that can be used to develop students' content knowledge, creative skills, critical thinking, collaboration abilities, and sense of digital citizenship. The document stresses that education needs to teach students how to learn, unlearn, and relearn in a world where information is constantly changing.

1. Digital and Gifted A Parent’s Guide to the Generation Now ____________________________________________________ Dr. Brian C. Housand housandb@ecu.edu Pitt County PAGE October 26, 2009

2. Technology Gifted

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10. DIGITAL DIVIDE IMMIGRANTS NATIVES

11. Fast internet Stay connected in a jet Wi-fi, podcast Blasting out an SMS Text me and I text you back Check me on the iChat I’m all about that http You’re a PC I’m a Mac I want it..

12. Myspace in your space Facebook is a new place Dip divin’ socializin’ I’ll be out in cyber space Google is my professor Wikipedia checker Checkin’ my account Logging in and logging out I want it.. Now!

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

15. If technology is an event in your school,you are doing it wrong. Josh Allen

16. Learning beyond the classroom.

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19. C ontent Resources

20. 299,000,000 Searches Per Day

21. Ancient Rome 3D Oceans googlelittrips.org Flight Simulator Sky Prado Streetview Discovery Networks National Geographic Real World Data

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25. Knowledge alone is NOT enough.

26. C reative 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)

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41. You do not want to miss this! Who said what and when. This is as far as most people get. Your chance to share your knowledge.

42. C itizenship

45. Responsible Producers Critical Consumers

46. C ollaboration

47. The Internet is Participatory Forcing Us To Learn New Interfaces Creating New Channels For Social Interaction

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54. The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot LEARN, UNLEARN AND RELEARN. (Toffler, 1971)

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