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Integrating Computational Creativity Exercises Into Classes, Leen-Kiat Soh, Duane F. Shell

DBER Speaker Series

Introduction | Creative Thinking, Computational Thinking

Exercises | Overall Design & Examples

Results | Brief Overview

Logistics | Tips, Support & Feedback

Aim to improve the learning of computational thinking by blending it with creative thinking Creative thinking? • Patterned in a way that tends to lead to creative results • Not limited to the arts • An integral component of human intelligence that can be practiced, encouraged and developed within any context

CREATIVITY THINKING Epstein’s Generativity Theory breaks creative thinking down to four core competencies • Capturing novelty • Challenging established thinking and behavior patterns • Broadening one’s knowledge …