Blog 8 - Emerging Technology that Supports Creativity and Production

One thing that stood out to me while reading Egbert was the creative thinking process. Egbert (2009) describes the process through three stages. The first stage is “Warm-up” (p. 133) focuses on getting students excited about an activity using prior knowledge and ideas. The second stage “Deepen expectations," is where the “teacher leads students to become more aware of the challenge that they are facing” (Egbert, 2009, p.133) meaning the teacher is in a guiding role in showing students how to face their challenges. The final stage asks teachers to “extend the learning” (Egbert, 2009, p. 133) by showing student how they can connect the information to themselves so that they can try different ideas. I felt that this shows how easy yet involved the creative thinking process can be viewed. It opens up creativity to the student using their own knowledge and helps them see that they are capable of creative thinking.

Egbert, J. (2009). Supporting learning with technology: essentials of classroom practice. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.