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      Designing educational software inline with the creative learning process: Just how important is the preparation phase?

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      Proceedings of HCI 2007 The 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference University of Lancaster, UK (HCI)
      British HCI Group Annual Conference
      3 - 7 September 2007
      Constructivist learning theory, constructionism, creativity, collaboration, music learning
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            Abstract

            A question gaining widespread interest in education today is ‘how can learning tasks be structured to encourage creative thinking in the classroom?’ This has a number of implications for the design of educational software. Numerous scholars have suggested that the processes of ‘learning’ and ‘creativity’ share many similarities. Extending upon this a generative framework of creative learning is presented here. This framework exists as a design support tool to aid the design of educational software. In order to demonstrate how this framework can be applied in practice, a music composition program called ‘SoundScape’ has been developed in accordance with the framework. This paper reports upon study conducted with SoundScape within a school with 96 children aged 11. The study focused upon two objectives, firstly, identifying differences in explicitly supporting the “preparation” phase of the creative process as opposed to not explicitly supporting the “preparation” phase. Secondly, the study compared differences in using real-world metaphors at the interface compared to using visual abstract representations at the interface.

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            Conference
            September 2007
            September 2007
            : 1-4
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            [0001]Knowledge Media Institute

            The Open University

            Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA

            +44 (0)1908 645771
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            10.14236/ewic/HCI2007.75
            7fd62fd8-be92-4544-89e8-53778b01608a
            © Sylvia M. Truman et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of HCI 2007 The 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference University of Lancaster, UK

            This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

            Proceedings of HCI 2007 The 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference University of Lancaster, UK
            HCI
            21
            Lancaster, UK
            3 - 7 September 2007
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            British HCI Group Annual Conference
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Constructivist learning theory,collaboration,constructionism,music learning,creativity

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