Creating with ICT

Creating with ICT

1. Creativity

   • 1.use Imagination, 2.fashioning Process, 3.pursuing Purpose, 4.being Original, 5.judging Value [IPPOV] (NACCE cited by loveless)
     • Students need ICT resources that are open ended and promote communication, interaction, discovery and problem solving
     • golden for exam!!!
     • affective and cognitive support needs trusting relationship with teacher

2. PRODUCT and PROCESS

   • Explore and Communicate Design Ideas

3. Six thinking Hats - deBono

   • White - data/info Black - difficulties/problems Red - feelings/intuition Green - Creativity Yellow - Values/benefits Blue - manage the thinking process

4. Loveless (2003)

   • NACCE - 'creativity is a 'imaginative activity' to produce outcomes both original and of value
   • Possibilities of thinking fostered from 3 perspectives - Agents, Processes and Domains
     • Agency : activity involving person in relationship with something
     • Process: rational, conscious and unconscious intuitive, affective resources we draw on in our creativity
     • Domains : full range of subjects we engage 'possibilitiy thinking in
   • Creating with technologies can develop
     • creating and meaning making
     • collaboration
     • communication

5. Downes, Beecher and Arthur (1999) 4 types Digital Resources

   • 3.Communicate and Share: Talk and send messages, display products eg blogs, wikis established thru the Learning Place
   • 2. Work and Play: Work, explore, investigate eg webquests; Look things up eg google; Solve problems, do puzzles eg quizzes, 2nd life
   • 1. Design and Make: Design, draw, paint eg tux paint, powerpt Construct artifacts eg iMovie, photostory
   • 4. Online resources: work collaboratively with students in other locations eg wiki

6. Constructivist teaching and learning

   • Constructing knowledge and understandings in a supportive learning environment can foster the development of enabling dispositions for learning
     • Curiosity, creativity, concentration, persistence, enthusiasm
   • great for ECE

7. Ed Qld

   • Invention and Innovation, Develop and Design, Ecology and Ethics, Action & Advocacy, Self and Society
   • IDEAS
   • For teachers
     • pedagogy: ICT enables diff learning styles to access, interact with and create learning content although 'lack of kinesthetic and physical involvement' (loveless 2003)
     • e-folios
     • evaluate software for ability to alllow individ expression?

8. Higher Order Thinking

   • Synthesis, Analysis, Evaluate