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Time: 20 hours
Level: Introductory
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 Introduction Resource- The activities in this unit are designed to support an individual or group of teachers in preparing a school-based training session for colleagues on creativity and information and communications technology...
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- 1.1 Creating creativity Resource
- Read the poem below, ‘The Hundred Languages of Children’ by Loris Malaguzzi (translated from the Italian by Lella Gandini). Consider how the school curriculum and environment may or may not encourage creativity...
- 1.2 Influences on creativity Resource
- In the late 1630s, the poet John Milton travelled from England to Italy. While there he visited the astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei and observed the skies above Florence through the telescope...
- 1.3 How can ICT support creativity? Resource
- Through this unit I hope to encourage discussion about how three apparently rather different ideas – creativity, community and new technology – are inextricably linked. How can new technologies enable...
- 1.4 What is creativity? Resource
- All people are capable of creative achievements in some areas of activity, provided the conditions are right, and they have acquired the relevant knowledge and skills … creative possibilities are pervasive...
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| | 2 Creative communities and ICT | |
| | 3 A knowledge-building community
- 3.1 Introduction Resource
- We have the obligation to think about the future, precisely because of the type of work we do … Venturing the future is not a risk – it's a necessity of the dignity of humankind.
- 3.2 Case Study 1: Caswell's cockroaches Resource
- The setting is a class of nine- and ten-year-olds in Toronto, Canada. The curriculum focus is biology. The classroom has been carefully organised to mirror the way in which a real adult scientific research...
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| | 4 Collaborative creativity
- 4.1 Introduction Resource
- Collective oeuvres* produce and sustain group solidarity. They help make a community. Works and works-in-progress create shared and negotiable ways of thinking in a group … externalising, in a word, rescues...
- 4.2 Case Study 2: A digital arts collaboration Resource
- The Virtual Identities Digital Arts Project (Learning Schools Programme, 1999a) involved post-16 art and design students from two Liverpool schools and two Kent schools in the United Kingdom. The project...
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- 5.1 Introduction Resource
- Creativity should not be considered a separate mental faculty but a characteristic of our way of thinking, knowing and making choices. Creativity seems to emerge from multiple experiences, coupled with...
- 5.2 Case study 3: Menon poetry Resource
- The class teacher (Menon, 1999) was keen to develop the sense of a ‘writing community’ early on in the term. In the first few weeks she invited her students to form groups of their own choice, research...
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| | 6 One hundred possibilities
- 6 One hundred possibilities Resource
- The more teachers are convinced that intellectual and expressive activities have both multiplying and unifying possibilities, the more creativity favours friendly exchanges with imagination and fantasy....
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