IT-Giftedness in Children and Adolescents

IT-giftedness represents abilities related with widely differing uses of information technologies (IT). Children and adolescents often exhibit surprising abilities in the use of computers. At the same time they face educational and psychological problems. We hypothesize that typical adolescent problems with IT will be lessened if a dynamic approach to giftedness is applied. We analyze the intelligence, social skills, and personality traits of professional software engineers. We then analyze how these might be more easily acquired by IT-gifted children and adolescents. Keywords Adolescent IT abilities, Child development, Information technologies, IT-giftedness

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: ETS
• Authors: Julia D. Babaeva, Alexander E. Voiskounsky
• Keywords: Adolescent, ETS 2002, Hardware, Information Technologies, Typical Adolescent Problems