NDLI: The difficult art of pruning in favour of creative thinking

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Massarelli, Riccardo
Abstract	The poster deals with the issue of creativity as one of the skills the students need to develop and master. The poster is based on two assumptions: 1) the traditional teaching method, generally speaking, tends to favour convergent thinking over divergent thinking; 2) the use of web based systems for teaching and learning may weaken the students' comprehension process. The poster describes the experience carried out as a tutor to support students attending Computer Science courses at the Facoltá di Economia (University of Bologna Sede di Rimini), where basic topics are taught with a project learning approach. The students, divided into groups (of 2 to 5 each), are asked to develop projects with Microsoft ACCESS and the tutor often meets them to discuss both design problems and code problems. Whenever students report their difficulties or doubts they offer the tutor a good opportunity. As lopper does with trees, the tutor can prune the dry branches of their wrong and too conventional solutions to make the tree of their creative thinking grow better. From this point of view the ability of the tutor becomes really crucial.
Starting Page	368
Ending Page	368
Page Count	1
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00978418
DOI	10.1145/1151954.1067568
Journal	ACM SIGCSE Bulletin (SGCS)
Volume Number	37
Issue Number	3
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1978-02-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Creativity
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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