The Internet has become the great equalizer of the 21st Century. Today, gifted students have access to information and networks of influence previously reserved for adults. With this access, comes great opportunity and great responsibility. Gifted students can pursue interests, showcase their abilities, and even advance their career before ever leaving middle school, but are they ready to launch their talent onto a global stage?

1. Launching
Talent…

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7. NASA

10. Humans to Mars 2030s

12. NASA

13. NASA/Chris Gunn

14. NASA/Bill Ingalls

15. Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Live on
Kepler-186f…
Where the grass
is always redder
on the other side.

17. James Webb, Cosmos

25. PRESENT
FUTURE

26. PRESENT FUTURE
Self-Awareness

27. PRESENT FUTURESkill-Development
Self-Awareness

28. PRESENT FUTURESkill-Development
Self-Awareness
Productivity

29. Self-Awareness

30. Interests
Aspirations
Values
Talents

31. WHO AREYOU?

34. Activity:
Weebly Beginnings

42. Activity:
Explore

44. What do I value?
How do I like to
spend my time?
What is my vision
of the future?

46. Visualize
Yourself
in the
Future

47. Future Self

49. in20years.com

51. Skill
Development

52. Self-Regulatory
Domain Specific
Social
Internet

53. Source: Munster, G. (2014)
Taking Stock With Teens: Collaborative Consumer Insights Project. Piper Jaffray.

54. Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/facebook-texting-teens-
instagram-snapchat-most-popular-social-network/373043/

55. BETHANY MOTA

57. 13

58. 13

59. 13

60. $40,000.00

62. Advantageous

63. Possibility
There must be the possibility of gaining
NEW knowledge and developing NEW skills.

66. Capable
All members must be capable of absorbing, applying,
and recognizing the value of new information.

68. Motivated
All members must be motivated to engage
without knowing the outcome value.

70. (Otta & Tavella, 2010)
Autonomyw/Competence

71. (Otta & Tavella, 2010)
Autonomyw/Competence
IntrinsicMotivation

72. (Otta & Tavella, 2010)
TooEasyorTooHard
IntrinsicMotivation

73. • Interesting
• Integral to one’s
vision of the
future
• Immediately
useful
• Tied to one’s identity
Achievement Motivation

74. Exchange
There must be an opportunity to exchange
skills and access information.

77. Don’t
you
think
if I were
wrong,
I’d
KNOW it?

78. S
TO
W
Helpful
to achieving the
objective
Harmful
to achieving the
objective
Internal Origin
Attributes of the
Individual
Strengths Weaknesses
External Origin
Attributes of the
Environment
Opportunities Threats
SWOT
Analysis

79. Relational & Egalitarian

80. Activity:
Meme

84. © Angela Housand, 2013

88. Digital
Identity

89. Control the Message

90. Why Control the
Message?
• College Admissions Officers & Committees
will search you
• Potential Employers will search you
• Friends (& non-friends) will search you
• Your Competition will search you
• Potential Boyfriend/Girlfriend will search you
© Angela Housand, 2013

92. Activity:
Digital Footprint

98. Productivity

99. Consistency
Relevance
Quality
Valence

100. Activity:
Vlog or Blog

101. MATT NADEL

104. marques brownlee

105. Content
Quality

106. Always improving
Attending to detail
A lot of hard work
“Able to make some serious money”
MKBHD

109. Valence
Volume
Quality

110. Inputs
Outcomes
Motives
Content
Network
Structure
Social Roles
& Interactions

111. Inputs
Outcomes
Motives
Content
Network
Structure
Social Roles
& Interactions Network
Structure

113. Network Structure
The Pattern of Connection
• The number of contacts
• The diversity of the contacts
• The configuration and stability of the network
• Position within the network

115. Social
Capital

117. Explicit Hierarchy

118. Explicit Hierarchy
Institutional Hierarchy

119. Implicit Hierarchy

125. Thank You !!!