This document provides encouragement for cultivating curiosity, imagination, and creativity in gifted students. It discusses the importance of questioning, exploring new ideas, taking risks and failing, and being open to new perspectives. Quotes emphasize pursuing interests through hands-on experiences, encouraging students' natural curiosity, and guiding students rather than directly teaching them. The goal is for students to develop lifelong curiosity and passion for learning.

1. FROM CURIOUS
TO CREATIVETECHNOLOGY AND TODAY’S GIFTED STUDENTS
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11. Stay hungry.
Stay foolish.

12. “I have no
special
talent.
I am only
passionately
curious.”

13. IQ = Curiosity + Effort
(von Stumm, Hell, and Camorro-Premuzic, 2011)

14. Imagination
is more important
than knowledge.
Knowledge
is limited.
Imagination
encircles
the world.

15. Photo by
Jonathan
Plucker

16. When each of us
thinks about what
we can do in life,
chances are,
we can do it
because of a
teacher. Stephen Hawking

19. Cat killer or
Breeder of invention?
Curiosity,

21. These devices
are designed to
present material
to the student of
a kind that would
not be available
to him in his
ordinary school
experience.

22. devices for
VICARIOUS
EXPERIENCE

23. I have seen the future,
and it is called
CARDBOARD

28. google.com/get/cardboard

31. google.com/get/cardboard

33. google.com/edu/expeditions

35. The real voyage of
consists not in seeking new landscapes,but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

36. EXPLORE
THE GARDEN

37. GO

38. GO

40. I am interested in _______________.

41. I am interested in _______________.EVERYTHING!

44. roadtripnation.com/roadmap

45. roadtripnation.com/roadmap

47. I am interested in _______________.LANGUAGES

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51. thekidshouldseethis.com

52. youtube.com/user/pbsdigitalstudios

53. youtube.com/user/crashcourse

54. youtube.com/user/crashcoursekids

56. SPEED GEEKING

58. COMFORTABLE WITH
CERTAINITY
UN
UN

59. https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/promotions/duckRabbit02-700.jpg

60. RESISTANCE TO
PREMATURE CLOSURE

62. Assign projects
that flummox.

63. http://www.federaljack.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/kobayashi-maru-01.jpg

65. And one thing it
takes to accomplish
something is
courage.
When you're curious, you
find lots of interesting
things to do.
http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Alice
http://wondersofdisney2.yolasite.com/merida.php

67. FAILUREisn’t a necessary evil.
In FACT, it isn’t EVIL at all.
It is a NECESSARY
consequence of doing
something NEW.
- Ed Catmull

68. TRUST

69. https://hbr.org/resources/images/article_assets/hbr/0809/R0809D_B.gif
YOU ARE NOT YOUR IDEA

70. Get great creative people.
Bet big on them.
Give them enormous leeway and support.
Provide them with an environment in
which they can get honest
feedback from everyone.
PIXAR’S
PHILOSOPHY

71. candor
n. the state or quality of being
frank, open, and sincere in
speech or expression

72. khanacademy.org/partner-content/pixar

73. Early on,
all of our movies suck.
Ed Catmull

74. http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/wall-e/images/6412320/title/wall-e-wallpaper-wallpaper
“If something works,
you shouldn’t do it again.
We want to do something that
is new, original —
something where there’s a
good chance
of failure.”

75. Perfectionism
PROCRASTINATION
PARALYSIS

76. “The attempt to avoid failure
makes failure more likely.
Trying to avoid
failure by
out-thinking it
dooms you
to fail.”
http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Sadness
- Ed Catmull

79. Story

80. 1977

81. http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20150325213755/disney/images/e/eb/SpaceMountainVintagePoster.jpg

86. Magical and
Meaningful

87. It’s about
THE EXPERIENCE.

88. Jan O’Connor
Imagineer
Nobody wants to
be mediocre.
Only the mediocre
person is always
at his best.
You have to fail.
You have to take
risks.

89. NO ONE - not Walt, not Steve, not the people of Pixar -
ever achieved creative success by clinging to what used to work.

90. “Curiouser
and curiouser!”

91. “The most successful
Imagineers are those who
see ‘this is new to me’ as
an opportunity, not a
barrier.
Josh Gorin

92. They are willing to go
outside their comfort zone
in the interest of
expanding their horizons
and gaining new
perspectives.”
Josh Gorin

93. “Constantly ask questions,
learn how things work,
try new and exciting things,
and you’ll build up a strong
base of experiences and
an ongoing curiosity that
will serve you well at WDI
and in life.” Josh Gorin

94. Around here we don’t look
backwards for very long…
We keep moving forward,
opening up new doors and
doing new things because we’re
curious, and curiosity keeps
leading us down new paths.

96. Encourage exploration,
challenge, and revision.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/NASA_child_bubble_exploration.jpg

97. SAGE ON THE STAGE
GUIDE ON THE SIDE

98. Meddler in
the Middle

99. http://www.ew.com/sites/default/files/i/2012/02/06/STAR-WARS-YODA_510.jpg

100. https://cdn1.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/33uJiAFMQ9Qa5WiiwUKc07NYMTc=/0x214:1023x896/1280x854/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/49280857/lukeyoda.0.0.jpg

101. diy.org

102. googlesciencefair.com/springboard

103. Build in
Progress
buildinprogress.media.mit.edu

105. YOU

106. I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask
a fairy godmother to endow it with the most
useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

107. #BestYearEver

108. JOYOUS

109. CURIOSITY

110. IMAGINATION

111. PASSION

112. CREATIVITY

113. STOP

114. GO

116. http://www.disneypictures.net/data/media/202/Buzz_Lightyear_wallpaper.jpg

117. TO INFINITY
AND BEYOND

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