Sparking Innovation: Kids, Creativity, and Code National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) Annual Conferene Baltimore, Maryland NOVEMBER 2014 Christie Ray Senior Administrator Professional Development, Orange County Schools, Orlando, Orlando, Florida Lauri Kirsch Supervisor, K-12 Gifted, Hillsborough County Public Schools, Tampa, Florida Brian Housand Associate Professor, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina In The New Geography of Jobs, Enrico Moretti asserts what is scarce today is not physical capital, but creativity. Value comes from original ideas. The best future jobs lie in innovation, design, and engineering. What can be done to foster creativity within an educational climate emphasizing standardization? If we are charged to create the successful learners and leaders of the future, it’s time to spark creativity, empower motivation, and simultaneously achieve the core standards. How? Through coding. Attend this session with curiosity and leave with ideas and free, easily accessible resources to control the creative climate of your classroom through coding.

1. SPARKING INNOVATION
GIFTED KIDS, CREATIVITY AND CODE
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2. SLIDES AND RESOURCES AVAILABLE AT
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10. INTERFACERS
PROGRAMERS

12. Everybody in this
country should learn how
to program a computer
because it teaches you
how to think.
- Steve Jobs

13. WHY

14. Top Ten
Skills to Cultivate
in your Gifted Child
1. Grit
2. Resiliency
3. Optimism
4. Self-Control
5. Enjoyment of Solitude
6. Finding Meaningfulness in Learning
7. Working on the Edge of One’s Competency
8. Being an Autonomous, Autodidactic Learner
9. Learning to Deal with Stress & Control Anxiety
10. Developing Appropriate Attitudes Toward Work & Ability
Paula
Olszewski-­‐Kubilius
-­‐
Parenting
for
High
Potential,
March/April
2013

15. Even if your kids
don’t go on to code
for living, a basic
understanding of
programming
concepts improves
problem-solving
and thinking skills
which are both
transferable and
empowering.

16. “Learning to
write programs
stretches your
mind and helps
you think
better, creates a
way of thinking
about things that
I think is helpful
in all domains.”

18. Key Ideas and Details
Craft and Structure
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Production and Distribution of Writing
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Comprehension and Collaboration
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas

19. 1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3 Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of
others.
4 Model with mathematics.
5 Use appropriate tools strategically.
6 Attend to precision.
7 Look for and make use of structure.
8 Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

22. developer.apple.com/xcode

23. bit.ly/Stanford-App-Class

24. 1 MILLION MORE
CS JOBS THAN
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS
TO FILL THEM BY 2020

27. $60,000 FIRST YEAR SALARY

30. HOW

31. csedweek.org

34. code.org/learn

41. CREATIVITY

43. madewithcode.com

44. MOTIVATION

45. MECHANISMS OF MOTIVATION
CONTROL
CHALLENGE
CURIOSITY
COOPERATION
COMPETITION
Housand, B. C. & Housand, A. M. (2012). The role of technology in gifted students’ motivation.
Psychology in the Schools, 49(7), 706-715.

46. www.truthandtrolls.com

47. Go ahead….
TELL ME
I CAN’T!

49. appinventor.mit.edu

51. 400,000
DOWNLOADS!

52. stemchallenge.org

53. stemchallenge.org

54. THE FUTURE
BELONGS TO
THOSE WHO CODE

55. SPARKING INNOVATION
GIFTED KIDS, CREATIVITY AND CODE
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