Enable, Enhance, and Transform: How Technology Use Can Improve Gifted Education

Technological use is increasingly prevalent in education. This article proposes a systematic way to conceptualize, incorporate and utilize the current technology in gifted education, namely, using “enable, enhance, and transform” as a working framework. It consists of three main functions of technological support: (a) technology enables gifted education to expand its capacity of service; (b) technology enhances the quality of gifted education; and (c) technology transforms gifted education by creating new directions and possibilities. The extant literature is reviewed in the hopes of understanding the current situation of technology use in light of this framework. The review shows that well-designed research is sorely needed that goes beyond mere advocacy to articulate the role of technological support and test its effectiveness in achieving specific goals of gifted education provisions.