Thu 18.09.2014 - 15:20-17:30 - Martin Krpan

The impact technology has on the areas and levels of development of gifted children  Workshop

Presenter: Tijl Koenderink

When trying to look at the development of gifted children in a holistic sense and dig deeper you find the Integral Model as developed by Ken Wilber and others. Based on, among others, the developmental levels of Kegan and the needs hierarchy of Maslow it integrates many different perspectives on personal development.
Because of the multi-facetted approach it gives a whole new meaning to a disharmonic profile. There might be a disharmony between cognitive intelligence and morals, or between interpersonal intelligence and worldview.
In this workshop we will unravel specific cases based on this model and come up with stage and levelappropriate interventions. Tijl Koenderink will draw on his extensive work with gifted children who either got stuck in school or turned into dropouts. In this process we will explicitly look at the ways technology is hindering the development of children and where it actually offers solutions.