Authors:
Maria Daskolia
;
Angeliki Kolovou
and
Chronis Kynigos
Affiliation:
Computer Technology Institute (CTI) and Press "Diophantus" and University of Athens, Greece
Keyword(s):
Social Creativity, Socio-technical Environments, Communities of Interest, Creative Mathematical Thinking, Climate Change, Design of Digital Educational Resources, Mathematics Education, Environmental Education, MC2 Project.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Computer-Supported Education
;
e-Learning
;
Information Technologies Supporting Learning
;
Instructional Design
;
Learning/Teaching Methodologies and Assessment
Abstract:
This study focuses on how social creativity is manifested in the collective design of digital educational resources (called “c-books”, c for creativity) aiming to foster students’ creative mathematical thinking. We investigate social creativity as a process by focusing on the boundary-crossing encounters taking place within a socio-technical environment constituted of teachers of diverse expertise interacting with each other and with the C-Book technology, while designing a c-book on “Climate Change”. The analysis of two critical episodes shows that during the design process the socio-technical environment allowed the communication and coordination of diverse perspectives enhancing the designers/ teachers creativity and leading to the transformation of initial ideas into ‘tangible’ objects.