Gifted Learners

1) What is something that surprised you or that you learned from the videos? What myth or prior belief did you find out was false and what is the reality?

I never thought about giftedness with a disability and what that might look like in the classroom. A lot of times throughout my education we've discussed students who are gifted or students with learning disabilities, but never connected the two or thought about a gifted person having a learning disability. 

I don't think there was a myth that I believed that I found was false that was addressed in the videos. 

2) How can you use what you learned in your present and future classrooms? How can technology play a part? Be specific.

Since gifted students tend to want to work individually rather than in a group so their grade rests on them I think making group work optional when possible a good thing or planning the project in a way where they're graded on their portion of the group work rather than the group getting the grade. 

Also, I can find ways to incorporate accommodations for gifted students that have learning disabilities in my lessons. And some of those accommodations may be good for other students as well. Sometimes students with dyslexia have an easier time reading digitally because they can make the text size bigger which helps with the dyslexia and something like that can be beneficial for other students as well. Also, finding ways to allow students to create projects or show understanding in other ways than writing could be good for every student.