Technology, Creative Learning and Social Change

Eduard Muntaner-Perich www.eduard.cat

@eduardm

SHORMILA

SARAY

Website: www.inventors4change.org

https://vimeo.com/129111438

Creative Learning Active Learning, Constructionism, PBL, Computational Thinking, Design Thinking…

Connected Learning Virtual Exchange, Peer Culture, Collaborative Learning, Shared Purpose…

Critical Thinking Education for Global Citizenship, Development Education,

Global Education, Human Rights Education…

Participating Schools (first 2 years)

Methodology Step 1: Introductions

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/14064599/

Methodology Step 2: Choosing a global issue & Debates

Children Rights Gender Equality Year 1 Year 2

Methodology Step 3: Creating Characters

Asynchronous work, debate, and iterations…

Methodology Step 4: Creating Backgrounds

Asynchronous work, debate, and iterations…

Methodology Step 5: Creating Animations, Stories, Games…

Asynchronous work, debate, and iterations…

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/52469392/

Methodology Discussions

Why Scratch?

Teacher training & Workshops for children

Research: On the Relationship between Computational Thinking and Creativity:

a Study among Primary School Children (Carme Auguet School)

Creative Thinking Originality, Elaboration, Openness-Resistance to Premature Closure, Unusual Visualization, Movement, Colorfulness of Imagery, Emotions, Humor, Fluency, Flexibility, Story telling…

Computational Thinking Sequences, Loops, Events, Parallelism, Conditionals, Incremental Design, Reusing/Remixing, Abstracting and modularizing, Completeness of the solution…

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Future Work

• Open the project: same 6 schools + several new learning centres (Canary Islands, UK, India…)

• Revise calendars and methodologies • Design teaching materials, curriculum guides • Platform for co-creation (idea generation, discussion, voting…)

Technology, Creative Learning and Social Change

Eduard Muntaner-Perich www.eduard.cat

@eduardm