FROM CURIOUS TO CREATIVE: Technology and Today’s Gifted Students Brian Housand, Ph.D. brianhousand.com @brianhousand A common characteristic of gifted students is a seemingly insatiable curiosity, and thanks to the power of the Internet, the answer to almost any question is only a few clicks away. Today’s gifted students also have unprecedented access to powerful tools designed for creative production and worldwide distribution. As educators how can we tap into gifted students’ interests and purposefully guide them towards meaningful products? Together, we will explore viable options for transforming you and your students from consumers of information to producers of new knowledge.

1. FROM CURIOUS
TO CREATIVETECHNOLOGY AND TODAY’S GIFTED STUDENTS
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4. 2005

10. Stay hungry.
Stay foolish.

11. IQ = Curiosity + Effort
(von Stumm, Hell, and Camorro-Premuzic, 2011)

12. “I have no
special
talent.
I am only
passionately
curious.”

13. Photo by
Jonathan
Plucker

16. Cat killer or
Breeder of invention?
Curiosity,

17. Curiosity
Confidence
Courage
Constancy

18. $399 SUPER EARLY BIRD
$159 HOTEL RATE

20. These devices
are designed to
present material
to the student of
a kind that would
not be available
to him in his
ordinary school
experience.

21. devices for
VICARIOUS
EXPERIENCE

22. I have seen the future,
and it is called
CARDBOARD

27. google.com/get/cardboard

30. google.com/get/cardboard

32. google.com/edu/expeditions

33. google.com/edu/expeditions

35. The real voyage of
consists not in seeking new landscapes,but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

36. @brianhousand #carpetdiem

37. WHAT DOES IT
MEAN TO BE
STUCK?

38. SOMETIMES
YOUR ARE
JUST
STUCK

39. 3
2
1
Words
Questions
Metaphor

40. http://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/i-think-we-just-moved-an-inch-oh-no-just-imagined-it-fml#.bcJ7zxNKW

41. http://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/i-think-we-just-moved-an-inch-oh-no-just-imagined-it-fml#.bcJ7zxNKW

42. EXPLORE
THE GARDEN

44. thekidshouldseethis.com

45. youtube.com/user/pbsdigitalstudios

46. youtube.com/user/crashcourse

47. youtube.com/user/crashcoursekids

54. COMFORTABLE WITH
CERTAINITY
UN
UN

55. https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/promotions/duckRabbit02-700.jpg

56. Address the emotional
impact of uncertainty.

57. SURPRISE AWE INTEREST CONFUSION

58. Confusion
is a
part of
Innovation.

59. RESISTANCE TO
PREMATURE CLOSURE

60. Assign projects
that flummox.

61. LESSON IDEA #1
INVITE STUDENTS
TO FIND MISTAKES

62. LESSON IDEA #2
ARGUE FROM AN
ALIEN VIEWPOINT

63. writingprompts.tumblr.com

64. DEPTH &
COMPLEXITY

65. LESSON IDEA #3
PROVIDE
ASSIGNMENTS
THAT STUDENTS
WILL FAIL

66. http://www.federaljack.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/kobayashi-maru-01.jpg

67. Encourage exploration,
challenge, and revision.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/NASA_child_bubble_exploration.jpg

68. SAGE ON THE STAGE
GUIDE ON THE SIDE

69. Meddler in
the Middle

70. http://www.ew.com/sites/default/files/i/2012/02/06/STAR-WARS-YODA_510.jpg

71. diy.org

72. googlesciencefair.com/springboard

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

74. YOU

75. FROM CURIOUS TO CREATIVE

76. I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask
a fairy godmother to endow it with the most
useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

77. BECOME A
GREAT
TEACHER

78. “I have come to 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.”

79. She breathed
curiosity into us so
that we brought in facts or
truths shielded in our hands
like captured butterflies.

81. LOVE
WHAT
YOU
DO

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