미래 사회를 이끌 창의인재 육성의 핵심은 뛰어난 영재의 발굴과 교육이다. 우리나라도 영재교육 의 중요성을 알고 많은 지원과 노력으로 양적 발전을 이루었으나 영재교육의 내용과 교육방법 면에 서는 아직 연구가 부족한 상태이다. 특히 현대지식정보화사회에서는 IT관련산업이 국가경제에서 차지 하는 비중이 매우 커지고 있다. 이러한 측면에서, 정보영재의 발굴과 더불어 육성이 국가적으로 매우 중요하다. 현재 정보영재교육에 관한 연구가 많이 필요하며 특히 정보영재의 특성과 정보영재교육 목 표에 적합한 교재의 개발이 필요하다. 이에 본 연구에서는 교육용 프로그래밍 언어 중 하나인 그린풋 (Greenfoot)을 활용한 초등 정보영재 교육 프로그램을 개발하였다. 영재교육의 목표와 방법, 영재 아 동의 특성을 고려하고 렌줄리(Renzulli)의 영재교육모형 8단계를 적용한 본 교육 프로그래밍 프로그램 은 영재교육 현장에서 프로그래밍에 대한 영재 아동들의 흥미와 호기심을 높여주고 실생활에서의 적 용력을 높여줄 수 있다.
The essence of future creative human resource development is identification and education of gifted children. Although, with recognition of importance for gifted education, our government has supported lots of efforts for gifted education, research works on educational contents and methods are not sufficient yet. In the current knowledge and information society, IT-related industries are very important for a nation’s economy. Currently more research works are necessary for gifted education in IT, especially for identification of characteristics for the gifted children in IT, and development of educational contents in accordance with objectives of the gifted education in IT. In this work, we develop a program for elementary gifted education in IT. In this work, considering objectives and methods of gifted education in IT, and characteristics of the gifted children in IT, and based on application of Renzulli’s 8-stage model, our gifted program is proposed and developed. Our gifted program is expected to increase curiosity, interest, applicability to real life for programming ability of gifted children in IT.
The essence of future creative human resource development is identification and education of gifted children. Although, with recognition of importance for gifted education, our government has supported lots of efforts for gifted education, research works on educational contents and methods are not sufficient yet. In the current knowledge and information society, IT-related industries are very important for a nation’s economy. Currently more research works are necessary for gifted education in IT, especially for identification of characteristics for the gifted children in IT, and development of educational contents in accordance with objectives of the gifted education in IT. In this work, we develop a program for elementary gifted education in IT. In this work, considering objectives and methods of gifted education in IT, and characteristics of the gifted children in IT, and based on application of Renzulli’s 8-stage model, our gifted program is proposed and developed. Our gifted program is expected to increase curiosity, interest, applicability to real life for programming ability of gifted children in IT.
