Creativity, Technology & Education: Exploring their Convergence

Serves as a principal text for those examining the intersection of creativity, technology and education within a course Offers a definition of creativity, ways of understanding the creative process, strategies to appraise creative output, as well as a technique for evaluating classrooms that support creativity Explores ideas of creativity, technology and learning within the contexts of different disciplines, historical cases, and examples Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Punya Mishra is Associate Dean of Scholarship & Innovation and Professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. He also has an affiliate faculty position in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. He is nationally and internationally recognized for his work on the theoretical, cognitive and social aspects related to the design and use of educational technologies. His more recent work has focused on educational innovation, creativity and aesthetics. Punya is a gifted, creative and engaging public speaker, as well as an accomplished visual artist and poet.

Danah Henriksen is an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Innovation at Arizona State University. Her current work and research highlight aspects of creativity, thinking skills, and design thinking for education. Her work has been published in both peer-reviewed journals as well as practitioner venues. She has co-edited special issues on creativity and technology for both the Journal of Technology and Teacher Education and TechTrends. She teaches courses on educational psychology, systems change and leadership, design thinking and creativity in educational settings.

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Chapter 1. Intro by Punya Mishra & Danah Henriksen.- Part I. Setting the frame.- Chapter 2.Crayons are the Future.- Chapter 3. A New Definition of Creativity.- Chapter 4.A Systems View of Creativity in a YouTube World.- Part II. Combinatorial creativity and (in)disciplined learning.- Chapter 5.On Being (In)Disciplined.- Chapter 6.Twisting Knobs and Connecting Things.- Chapter 7.Revisited & Remixed.- Part III. Putting in context.- Chapter 8. Square-peg, Round-hole, Good Engineering.- Chapter 9.Of Art and Algorithms.- Chapter 10.Creativity in Mathematics and Beyond.- Part IV.The architectures of creativity.- Chapter 11.A Room of Their Own.- Chapter 12.The Architecture of Creative Learning Environments.- Chapter 13.Deep Convergence.