Computers in Education for Talented and Gifted Students (Dave Moursund)
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Computers in Education for Talented and
Gifted Students: A Book for Elementary and
Middle School Teachers
"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."
(Confucius)
"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches
itself." (Albert Camus; French novelist, essayist and
playwright, who received the 1957 Nobel Prize for
literature.)
Dave Moursund (3/30/06)
Teacher Education, College of Education
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Email: moursund@uoregon.edu
Web: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~moursund/dave/index.htm
Contents
Contents .......................................................................................1
About Dave Moursund, the Author ...............................................4
Preface..........................................................................................5
Cognitively Challenged and Cognitively Gifted Students ........5
Auxiliary Brain (Distributed Intelligence) .................................6
Other Big Ideas and Themes.......................................................7
Reference Materials.....................................................................7
Chapter 1: Introduction.................................................................9
Talented and Gifted .....................................................................9
Expertise in a Discipline or Domain ........................................13
Brain Science and Expertise .....................................................14
Metacognition ............................................................................15
Education for TAG Students.....................................................17
Summary ....................................................................................18
Activities and Discussion Topics .............................................19
Chapter 2: Human and Machine Intelligence............................... 20
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