Computing for Clever Kids: Creating the Future.

Riley, Tracy; Brown, Mark

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ERIC Number: EJ555532

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Publication Date: 1997

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Computing for Clever Kids: Creating the Future.

Riley, Tracy; Brown, Mark

Gifted Child Today Magazine, v20 n5 p22-29 Sep-Oct 1997

Describes a New Zealand workshop for 10 gifted children (ages 10-11) that used computers to foster innovative ideas and provide opportunities for creativity and problem solving through independent and group learning experiences. The children brainstormed about the future and designed an original "MicroWorld" using the theme "future." (CR)

Descriptors: Brainstorming, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning, Creativity, Educational Technology, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society), Gifted, Problem Solving, Teamwork

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Audience: Practitioners

Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: New Zealand

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