BE COOL! Promoting intellectual giftedness during collaborative inquiry learning and learning by design

Description of research

Intellectually gifted students are offered minimal scope to develop their talents. The common learning materials provide them with little challenge. As a result, they are often put to work individually on different assignments without given any feedback. Subsequently, these students are often socially excluded from their classmates.

The BE COOL!-project intends to steer clear of these imperfect learning conditions by deploying a learning environment combining inquiry learning and learning by design. A difference could be made while both skills seem to be of great importance for the development of highly gifted students. What’s more, cooperation of highly gifted students and (below) average students within this environment could create the opportunity for them to take advantage of each other’s social and cognitive skills, ánd the intellectually gifted students get to take up their own position in the class context.

Advisor(s)

Dr. T.H.S. Eysink

Prof.dr. A.J.M. de Jong

Duration

2011-2015

Funding institution

OnderwijsBewijs, Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap

Strategic Research Orientation

NICE - Natural Interaction in Computer-mediated Environments

Links to relevant web pages:

http://www.utwente.nl/gw/ist/medewerkers/wetenschappelijke_staf/alieke_van_dijk/

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Home CTIT symposium 2013 About CTIT News NIRICT Research Meet the PhDs Working at CTIT Internal Information Conferences Open Calls (updated May 3, 2013) Library and Videos Knowledge Transfer Links Sitemap Search	BE COOL! Promoting intellectual giftedness during collaborative inquiry learning and learning by design Description of research Intellectually gifted students are offered minimal scope to develop their talents. The common learning materials provide them with little challenge. As a result, they are often put to work individually on different assignments without given any feedback. Subsequently, these students are often socially excluded from their classmates. The BE COOL!-project intends to steer clear of these imperfect learning conditions by deploying a learning environment combining inquiry learning and learning by design. A difference could be made while both skills seem to be of great importance for the development of highly gifted students. What’s more, cooperation of highly gifted students and (below) average students within this environment could create the opportunity for them to take advantage of each other’s social and cognitive skills, ánd the intellectually gifted students get to take up their own position in the class context. Advisor(s) Dr. T.H.S. Eysink Prof.dr. A.J.M. de Jong Duration 2011-2015 Funding institution OnderwijsBewijs, Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap Strategic Research Orientation NICE - Natural Interaction in Computer-mediated Environments Links to relevant web pages: http://www.utwente.nl/gw/ist/medewerkers/wetenschappelijke_staf/alieke_van_dijk/ Pictures