Abstract
The study presents the Brazilian experience of the Talento Metropole program, linked to the Digital Metropolis Institute of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, located in Brazil’s Northeast. The Talento Metropole program aims to develop the interest of young people with high abilities/intellectual giftedness in scientific research, expand skills and abilities, and get creative in the fields of information technology and its interfaces, always seeking innovation and entrepreneurship. It also aims to create opportunities for the dissemination of new knowledge and to explore career opportunities related to this area, with the purpose of creatively inserting young people into the labor market and into solidary social participation. The participants are students from public and private schools, colleges and universities, aged between 13 and 21 years. The steps that comprise the structure of the program are described and characterized. In addition, the selection process for admission to the program is described, with emphasis on the stage which illustrates the development and characterization of the instrument which investigate the sources of skills and expertise subjacent to the field of information technology.
Highlights
The present article discusses the development of the Talento Metrópole program, under implementation at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Young people with high ability/giftedness with creative-productive profiles, in general, have their learning processes characterized by the development of materials and unique products; here, the emphasis is on the use and application of information, which characterizes the process as inductive, usually oriented to real life problems (Renzulli & Reis, 1997)
2) Evaluation of abilities and competencies in information technology To execute the Project Talento Metrópole there was a need for developing specific procedures of selection and evaluation that would make possible to build an instrument of selection with items that were clearly connected to the constructs ability for Informatics/ability for Information Technologies (IT)
Summary
The present article discusses the development of the Talento Metrópole program, under implementation at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Young people with high ability/giftedness with creative-productive profiles, in general, have their learning processes characterized by the development of materials and unique products; here, the emphasis is on the use and application of information, which characterizes the process as inductive, usually oriented to real life problems (Renzulli & Reis, 1997). The peculiarity inherent to the learning processes of young people with high abilities/giftedness promotes the need to develop and implement programs that address the diversity and idiosyncrasies inherent to this population It appears that traditional teaching, in most cases, fails and becomes uninteresting, as it tends to ignore the active role of the student in the learning process, homogenizing interests and paths, establishing the validity of certain content and ignoring others, and restricting creativity and alternative routes for the construction of knowledge. Talento Metrópole program proposes, an innovative educational program focusing on talented/gifted youths, and offering learning contexts in order to promote critical, innovative thinking
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