Today's technology and gifted students. What parents need to know to share time with their mobile natives and help their children develop identity (brand themselves) online.

1. TODAY’S TECHNOLOGY
+ GIFTED STUDENTS__________________________
What Parents Need To Know
AND TEACHERS
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4. Let’s Get Started
1. Find a partner to work with.
(Someone you don’t know!)
2. Give your partner your full
name.
3. Search your partner - find as
much information as you can.
4. Take notes.
5. Share with your partner what
you found about them.

5. Generation Z

8. EF
2 THEIR
OWN
DEVICES

11. “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

12. “Every generation of
teenagers embraces
the freedoms and
possibilities wrought
by technology in ways
that shock the elders.”
Time
March 27, 2006

13. REALITY

14. 3,339

16. DIGITAL
PARENTING
STYLE

18. PROTECT
AND LIMIT
Parents need to set boundaries to keep
children safe.
Digital media and technology are not
important for a child's healthy development.

19. PROTECT
Screen media needs to be balanced with
other activities.
Children are only one click away from a lot of
material that's inappropriate for them.

20. EMPOWER
Children can learn new things by using
online media.
Parents should offer guidance on how
to use the Internet for learning.

21. EMPOWER
AND ENGAGE
Children need to learn to navigate the digital
world and make choices for themselves.
Children can exercise their creativity by using
online media.

23. House
Rules

24. Show
Curiosity

25. “Show Me”

26. I like that.
I don’t
like that.

27. WONDER
AND LEARN

28. wonderopolis.org

29. coursera.org

30. iTunes U

31. youtube.com/user/crashcourse

32. DFTBADON’T FORGET TO BE AWESOME

33. KHANACADEMY

34. CLICK HERE
THEN
HERE

35. googlesciencefair.com/springboard

36. roadtripnation.com/roadmap

37. roadtripnation.com/roadmap

38. youtube.com/user/Vihart

39. FAMILY
MOVIE
NIGHT

41. We are educa3ng people
out of their crea3vity.
Crea3vity is as important
in educa3on as literacy.
Sir Ken Robinson

44. CONSUMERS
PRODUCERS

45. MAKE A
MOVIE

46. iMovie Trailers

47. LEGO Movie Maker

50. THE
MARTIAN

52. BUILD
IDENTITY

53. BETHANY MOTA

55. $40,000.00

59. Courage

60. Optimism

61. Sensitivity to
Human Concerns

64. Just Ask.

66. weebly.com

67. weebly.com

71. MATT NADEL

74. marques brownlee

75. Content
Quality

76. Always improving
Attending to detail
A lot of hard work
“Able to make some serious money”
MKBHD

80. roadtripnation.com/roadmap

85. Visualize
Yourself
in the
Future

86. Future Self

87. in20years.com

88. 0.4%OF FEMALE COLLEGE FRESHMAN PLAN
ON MAJORING IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

91. LEARN
TO CODE

94. code.org/learn

95. scratch.mit.edu

96. codecademy.com

97. averymiller.org

102. 400,000
DOWNLOADS!

103. appinventor.mit.edu

104. D I Y

105. diy.org

112. Build in
Progress
buildinprogress.media.mit.edu

113. makerspace.com

115. JOIN A
GROUP

119. Advantageous

120. Exchange
There must be an opportunity to exchange
skills and access information.

123. Don’t
you
think
if I were
wrong,
I’d
KNOW it?

124. Possibility
There must be the possibility of gaining
NEW knowledge and developing NEW skills.

127. Motivated
All members must be motivated to engage
without knowing the outcome value.

128. • Interesting
• Integral to one’s
vision of the
future
• Immediately
useful
• Tied to one’s identity
Tween/Teen Motivation

129. Capable
All members must be capable of absorbing, applying,
and recognizing the value of new information.

131. Relational & Egalitarian

133. “We may not be able to
prepare the future for
our children,
but at least we can
prepare our children
for the future.”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

134. Thank You!