Digital Differentiation in Gifted Education

Abstract

Gifted students are a group who has unique needs. These unique needs require differentiation in their education. With the technological developments, it becomes necessary to use digital tools within or outside the classroom which can enhance the differentiation process. Digital differentiation emerges because of all these reasons that answer students' needs with the usage of technology. The purpose of this chapter is to introduce digital differentiation as a strategy used in gifted education. Digital differentiation can be carried out in traditional classrooms by preparing digital differentiation packages which includes three types of different content or in online environments by using learning management systems besides digital differentiation packages. In this chapter, strategies used in gifted education will be explained and then digital differentiation will be presented and the tools that can be used exemplified. Then how the digital differentiation can be carried out in both traditional classrooms and online environments will be clarified.