Creativity and ICT

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A teacher education resource on building communities and exploring creativity

About. Explores the nature of creativity and how to encourage creativity particularly using collaborative ICT activities.

Pedagogical content. This unit engages with the debates surrounding the term ‘creativity^(tool)' and explores ways in which ICT⁽ⁱ⁾ creates new opportunities for creativity and collaboration^(ta)

Resource details
Title	Creativity and ICT
Topic	[[Topics/ICT|ICT]]
Teaching approach	[[Teaching Approaches/Collaboration|Collaboration]]
Learning Objectives	Engage in debates on different views of creativity and form a view on what creativity means Recognise the ways in which individuals can be creators and generators of new knowledge Explore ways in which ICT creates new opportunities for creative, collaborative activity
Format / structure	Web tutorial unit with four PDF documents and six images
Table of contents	Exploring creativity Creating creativity Influences on creativity How can ICT support creativity? What is creativity? Creative communities and ICT A knowledge-building community - case study: Caswell's cockroaches Collaborative creativity - case study: A digital arts collaboration A community of writers - case study: Menon poetry One hundred possibilities. Next steps. References and acknowledgements
Useful information	Part of the Open University's Teach and Learn series
Files and resources to view and download	This resource is available here: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3623