Technology and Primary Grade Students

Technology is an exciting learning tool for most students, but for gifted and talented students it represents the opportunity to engage in deep and complex thinking on a wide variety of topics. In the primary grades, technology can be a powerful motivator. I don’t mean dangling a computer usage as a reward for compliance. [...]

Fall Classes in the Gifted Kids Network

The Gifted Kids Network is a web based supplemental gifted and talented programming model that includes accelerated or advanced content and affective programming. Enrolled students from schools and districts throughout the United States are able to come together in a private secure online environment to engage in high level content with other gifted peers. Gifted [...]

Olympics and Geography

Carol Fertig recently posted Ideas for Studying the Olympics. She’s given some great links that I encourage teachers and parents to explore.  Personally I love the Olympics as a way to learn more about geography. Here are a few ideas: Plot the route of the torch on a map. Locate each country participating in the Olympics on the [...]

Gifted Kids Network makes the news

It’s been an exciting week for the Gifted Kids Network with two journals running stories about GKN. Read the article about GKN in Tempo Magazine. Read the article in Edweek.org  

Animal Planet – Virtual Zoo

This summer 20 students from the United States and Australia came together in the Gifted Kids Network to learn about endangered animals, humane zoo keeping practices and create a virtual zoo. We asked the question: Is it fair for animals to be raised in captivity or is it better to allow them to roam free in the wild? [...]