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  • Sowing the Seeds for a More Creative Society
    Date: 12/01/2007
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    In today's rapidly changing world, people must continually come up with creative solutions to unexpected problems. Success is based not only on what one knows or how much one knows, but on one's ability to think and act creatively. In short, people are now living in the Creative Society. Unfortunately, few of today's classrooms focus on helping ... »
  • ScratchR: sharing user-generated programmable media
    Date: 06/06/2007
    Resource Category!: Conference Proceedings
    This paper describes a platform for sharing programmable media on the web called ScratchR. As the backbone of an on-line community of creative learners, ScratchR will give members access to an audience and inspirational ideas from each other. ScratchR seeks to support different states of participation: from passive consumption to active creation. ... »
  • Collaboration, Computation, and Creativity: Media Arts Practices in Urban Youth Culture
    Date: 01/01/2007
    Resource Category!: Conference Proceedings
    The focus of this paper is to turn our attention to the arts as an understudied area within the computer-supported collaborative learning community and examine how studying the learning of arts and programming can open new avenues of research. We document, describe, and analyze urban youths’ media arts practices within the context of the design ... »
  • All I Really Need to Know (About Creative Thinking) I Learned (By Studying How Children Learn) in Kindergarten
    Date: 01/01/2007
    Resource Category!: Conference Proceedings
    This paper argues that the "kindergarten approach to learning" – characterized by a spiraling cycle of Imagine, Create, Play, Share, Reflect, and back to Imagine – is ideally suited to the needs of the 21st century, helping learners develop the creative-thinking skills that are critical to success and satisfaction in today’s society. The paper ... »
  • Some Reflections on Designing Construction Kits for Kids
    Date: 01/01/2005
    Resource Category!: Conference Proceedings
    This paper presents ten guiding principles for designing construction kits for kids: design for designers; low floors and wide walls; make powerful ideas salient - not forced; support many paths, many styles; make it as simple as possible - and maybe even simpler; choose black boxes carefully; a little bit of programming goes a long way; give ... »