Technology

= Are you reaching your digital learners? =

Social Networking is impacting the world of gifted education
[|Davidson Institute Article]

**//Twenty First Century Learning: Web 2.0 and Differentiation, a Hands-On Workshop//**
Check out this Wiki for ideas and links to FREE Web 2.0 activities for your students Web 2.0 ideas media type="custom" key="7257399" Here's one I made for you to try [|GT Coordinators Jeopardy Game]

= Online classes for Gifted Students =


 * The Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) at Stanford University** is a continuing project dedicated to developing and offering multimedia computer-based distance-learning courses. Combining technical and instructional expertise, EPGY provides high-ability students of all ages with an individualized educational experience, optimized in both pace and content. Through EPGY, students have access to courses in a variety of subjects at levels ranging from kindergarten through advanced-undergraduate. Since its inception over 50,000 students from 35 countries have taken courses from EPGY. [|Stanford online]

Teaching Digital Natives
Your students are DIGITAL NATIVES the generation for whom educators are now entrusted to teach. We, the teachers, are DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS trying to communicate in a foreign tongue!

Check out these sites to begin helping you with ideas of how to relate and teach in a digital world.
 * Marc Prensky Website on digital learning** [|Prensky]
 * Bloom's Digital Taxonomy for use with technology** [|Techno Bloom]
 * YouTube Video unleashing a new way to engage students**[| Pay Attention]