Tag: creativity

• Rules of Engagement: The Battle Against Ennui

  This is my last major assignment of my first semester in my journey toward a PhD. The project was designed to be an individual project to give students a reason to practice synthesizing information and written communication. We were to engage in self-reflection on the topic of “motivation and engagement in blended and online learning”…

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  December 11, 2022

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  creativity, edu811, engagement, multimodal, SOMA

• Creativity Online, For Better or Worse: An Annotation

  Literat, I. & Glăveanu, V. P. (2018). Distributed Creativity on the Internet: A Theoretical Foundation for Online Creative Participation. International Journal of Communication, 12, 893–908. The authors attempt to forge a link between the research on creativity and online participation by viewing creativity through the lens of distributed creativity. According to the authors, as a…

  Sobehrad

  October 2, 2022

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  annotation, creativity, EDU 800, technology, Week 5

• Don’t Straighten the Contours: An Annotation

  Spiro, R. J., & DeSchryver, M. (2009). Constructivism: When it’s the wrong idea and when it’s the only idea. In S. Tobias & T. Duffy (Eds.), Constructivist theory applied to instruction: Success or failure. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. This article makes clear the danger in relying on proscriptive direct instructional guidance in a world that…

  Sobehrad

  August 31, 2022

  EdTech

  annotation, constructivism, creativity, direct instruction, EDU 800, week 1