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Developing creativity in computer lessons

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Yiu-chi Lai,

Tak-wah WongAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 41, Issue 2

Pages 132 - 135

https://doi.org/10.1145/1595453.1595491

Published: 25 June 2009 Publication History

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When we examine the recent official curriculum documents published by the Curriculum Development Council in Hong Kong, we can observe that generic skills such as Collaboration Skills, Communication Skills, Creativity, Critical Thinking Skills, Problem-solving Skills etc. are identified as fundamental in helping students to learn. As most people agree that creativity is an essential element in the computer world, we are going to discuss the ways to develop students' creative ability in computer lessons in this paper.

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Developing creativity in computer lessons
1. Social and professional topics
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    1. Computing education
      1. Model curricula

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 41, Issue 2

June 2009

166 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/1595453

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