Technology Education for High–Ability Students

Best practices in education technology commonly view software and hardware as a means to improve learning and student engagement. Innovation, on the other hand, has been extensively researched. Innovation in education centers around abandoning traditional pedagogical practices in which students are held back by their dependency on being taught. Educational innovation takes two forms: sustaining and disruptive. The standard application of innovative education technologies, whether sustaining or disruptive, can easily become tool-centric. Creating technology is an inherently entrepreneurial endeavor involving both creative risk and making interpersonal connections. Serial entrepreneurship is an additional behavioral characteristic found in gifted innovators, which is the ease of transitioning from project to project and upon completion, providing a point of exit or identifying project failure. Failure is not a deterrent, but provides an opportunity to learn and move on.