Project-based Learning: Changing Students' Scientific Thinking to Be Creative from Waste Natural Materials

ICT to Train Students towards Creative Thinking

This study examines the role played by Information Communication Technologies as cognitive tools in the classroom. We refer to the theoretical context considering creativity not only as the skill of fantasy and imagination but also as an educational process. In particular, in the exp eriences described, we highlight how creative thinking can be stimulated through the use of ICT integrated into ...

Thinking with a New Purpose: Lessons Learned from Teaching Design Thinking Skills to Creative Technology Students

This paper reports on the insights gained from introducing Design Thinking into the final year of a UK university course where students created positive behavior change interventions. The rationale for course design and teaching process is outlined, with a discussion of design as an engineering process versus an innovation process. The students followed Stanford University’s d.school 5-step app...

Learning to be creative. The effects of observational learning on students' design products and processes

Previous research indicated that observing is an effective learning activity in various domains. Can observational learning also be beneficial in enhancing creativity in art and design education? We hypothesized that observation has a positive effect on creativity measured in the designing process and the final products. 61 Students (ninth grade) participated in an experiment with a pre-post-te...

Learning to Be Creative and the Creative Memory

In this paper we discuss the interplay between learning and creativity, motivated by a control-based model. In particular we adopt control theoretic methodologies as well as complex systems and multi-agent systems abstractions, to consider a set of issues that allude to the formulation of distributed design systems able to support and/or simulate creative and learning behaviour.

Intelligence and Scientific-Creative thinking: their convergence in the explanation of students’ academic performance