1. Creativity and Giftedness
in a Digital Age
____________________________________________________
Dr. Brian C. Housand
housandb@ecu.edu
Pitt County PAGE
March 23, 2009
17. Learning and Innovation Skills
and
21st Creativity
Century
Innovation
Skills
Critical Thinking and
Problem Solving
Learning
Communication and
and
Innovatio
Collaboration
n
18. The Rise of the Creative Class
50%
45%
40%
35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
Agriculture Working Service Creative
Florida, R. (2002). The rise of the creative class (p. 332). New York, NY: Basic Books.
20. Computer Technology
“is not a tool;
it is a new material for expression.”
(Maeda, 2001)
21. Rather than running the risk of
having our students become
quot;walking encyclopedias,quot; we
need to teach them how to
think creatively.
(Sternberg, 2006)
30. What are
New
Literacies?
(Leu, Kinzer, Coiro, and Cammack, 2004)
31. New Literacies
(Leu, Kinzer, Coiro, and Cammack, 2004)
IDENTIFY Important Questions
LOCATE Information
CRITICALLY EVALUATE Information
SYNTHESIZE Information
COMMUNICATE Answers
32.
33. This is where the REAL
Who said
information is.
what and
when.
This is as far as Your chance to share
most people get. your knowledge.
39. +
The Less You Share,
The Less Power You Have.
40. “For the first time
in history, our jobs
as educators is to
prepare our
students for a
future that we can
not clearly
describe.”
David Warlick
41. One thing is
clear. 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
42. The illiterate of
the 21st Century
will not be those
who cannot read
or write,
but those who cannot
LEARN, UNLEARN AND
RELEARN. (Toffler, 1970)