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Fostering In CCR, teachers should encourage learners to develop The Media Lab at MIT engages learners
multiple modes their talents and creative potential to the fullest extent in all in cross-disciplinary projects in a wide
of thinking possible areas (notion of polymathy) (Kaufman, Beghetto, range of domains (e.g. nanotechnology and
Baer, & Ivcevic, 2010). ICT applications (e.g. audio editing) music).
offer unprecedented opportunities for exploratory learning Source: http://www.media.mit.edu/about/
and creativity. mission-history
Building on CCR teachers should build on learners’ strengths, The Enrichment Programme implemented
individual potentials and preferences (i.e. understanding their in a Slovenian school aims to increase
strengths and backgrounds, interests, skills) as crucial resources and learners’ inner motivation for learning by
preferences drivers for motivation to learning. ICT offer multiple ways to respecting their “interests and ideas”.
express learners’ interests (e.g. through social networks)
and can facilitate the development of their creative Source: http://www.oecd.org/edu/
potential. ceri/49768501.pdf
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Fostering soft In CCR, a great variety of activities should address Projects being developed in Fab labs
skills transversal soft skills such as problem solving, collaboration at MIT’s Center for Bits & Atoms
and cultural awareness, in order to facilitate the learning provide authentic learning and soft skills
of the hard, subject-specific skills. ICT provide means for development.
fostering soft skills, as the ability to communicate and work
in team. Source: http://fab.cba.mit.edu/about/faq/
Facilitating CCR should provide learners with more opportunities In Cyprus, the ‘simulation sample
(social) to initiate, design and implement real-life projects with enterprises’ programme foster students to
entrepreneurship emphasis on innovative products/services for the school work on a specific area of entrepreneurship.
community in order to create a culture that values sensible Source: Eurydice p. 26:
risk taking, entrepreneurship, and innovation (Eurydice, http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/education/
2012). ICT offer opportunities for both real and/or virtual eurydice/documents/thematic_
entrepreneurship. reports/135EN.pdf
Applying in In CCR, all learners (gifted students, migrants, drop-outs, The CONNECT Project included
practice social etc.) should be provided with equal opportunities and interventions in Irish North & South
inclusion and appropriate means for quality learning, in order to mitigate schools that target the causes of anti-social
equity social disadvantage and reduce schools failures. Evidence behaviour and community disengagement
shows that ICT-enabled approaches offer tailored learning by means of an innovative ICT-enabled
opportunities (and contents) inside and outside of E&T approach. Source: http://scotens.org/
institutions (OECD, 2012a, 2012b). docs/2010-mvet.pdf
Recognizing Informal and non-formal and learning that takes place Flipped classrooms follow a reversed
informal and outside formal settings should be recognized. Recognition teaching and learning model: learners
non-formal of (both students and teachers) achievements constitutes watch lectures and at home and use the
learning a core factor inside CCR. The potential of ICT is exploited classroom time to interact with peers
to facilitate ubiquitous learning through open educational and teachers. Source: http://www.
resources (e.g. online videos, podcasting). techsmith.com/flipped-classroom.html
Monitoring CCR should develop and communicate a clear framework In the Qualities of Quality project, achieving
quality for quality, transparent to all members of the wider school quality in K-12 arts programs is an ongoing
community, in order to monitor and enhance quality in examination of programmatic, personal
teaching, learning and assessment. ICT offers a broad purposes, values, and “in the room”
variety of versatile tools to support incremental approaches action. Source: http://www.pz.harvard.edu/
and systematic review of implementation strategies. research/Quality.htm
Innovating Innovative, flexible (Csikszentmihalyi, 1996), and tailored- A primary school in Seville, Spain has
timetables made timetables should be used for providing teachers adopted an innovative timetable, dividing
and learners with more opportunities to engage in creative lessons in 15-20 minutes with subgroups
learning in CCR. ICT offer new tools (e.g. online shared coordinated by various actors.
calendars) for sharing timetables and facilitate time Source OECD: http://www.oecd.org/
management. dataoecd/0/61/49930737.pdf
Levelling-up and ICT infrastructure should reach adequate performance and Numerous large-scale 1-to-1 computing
functioning ICT interoperability in order to provide learners and staff with initiatives currently undertaken in Europe
infrastructure access to multimedia-rich contents and online services for represent a qualitative move toward
innovative pedagogies in CCR. Research (e.g. Redecker & ubiquitous access to online resources
Punie, 2010) shows that ICT-based infrastructures such as through a personal device (netbooks) for all
broadband networks, cloud computing, web applications, the learners.
and tablets offer great opportunities for innovating learning Source: http://resources.eun.org/insight/
and teaching practices. Netbooks_on_the_rise.pdf
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Innovating and CCR should make use of technological means in order The project “World of stars” offers tools
renovating to modernize existing services and/or offer totally new (e.g. chat, videoconference) to children who
services services both for formal and informal learning. ICT offer have a long stay in hospital to communicate
powerful tools for updating existing services (e.g. school with school, peers and family.
library offering e-books) or introducing innovative services Source: http://www.mundodeestrellas.es/
(e.g. online courses for ill students) for learning 24/7. opencms/index.html
Rearranging The CCR physical space should take advantage of colours, Vittra schools have adopted a new
physical space sounds, materials etc. in order to provide a flexible, pedagogical approach, without any
aesthetically-appealing and inspiring environment for traditional classrooms. The challenging
learning (Burke, 2007). Moreover, the physical CCR space design and pedagogical zones offer a space
should cover as far as possible learners’ special needs. ICT for innovative pedagogical practices.
tools (e.g. video projectors) can be used for creating an Source: http://vittra.se/english/VittraEnglish.
easily adaptable physical space. aspx
Learning across In CCR, a variety of learning materials should be organized The International Primary Curriculum
disciplines / thematically to foster “horizontal connectedness” (OECD, (IPC) is a privately developed curriculum
subjects 2012a) and enable learners to analyse and understand (adopted by over 1000 schools in 65
things by multiple perspectives (Cachia, et al., 2010). ICT countries) providing a cross-curricular,
offer innovative ways to retrieve information from different thematic structure. Source: http://www.
domains and to create rich multimodal content. internationalprimarycurriculum.com
Learning-by- CCR should enable learners to explore complex concepts Online laboratories allow learners and
exploring and manipulate ideas in order to enhance their critical teachers to carry out experiments with
thinking and ability to make connections about seemingly advanced equipment.
unrelated concepts. ICT offer new means such as online Source: https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/
access to remote laboratories for exploratory learning. display/ILAB2/iLabs
Learning-by- CCR should actively engage learners in producing and Stop-motion animation techniques are used
creating generating their own contents (artefacts) in order to nurture in many schools worldwide for learning-by-
creative imagination, innovation attitude and authentic creating. For instance, Daylesford Primary
learning. ICT offer the means for designing, (re-) creating, School students’ create their own clay
and communicating learner-generated content worldwide, animations working in small groups.
in new and cost-effective ways, from blogs, to wikis, to Source: https://fuse.education.vic.gov.au/
video making and sharing. pages/View.aspx?pin=7C8E6E
Learning-by- CCR should extensively embed (both physical and mental) Lego Mindstorms engages students
playing playfulness in order to fully engage students in the learning in learning-by-playing e.g. Winterfest
process. ICT offer great opportunities for playful learning Source: http://is.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pages/
through a great variety of digital games and simulations. EAP/eInclusion/games/documents/
Buchem_CASE_Wintertest_short.pdf
Addressing CCR should give value and provide the means (i.e. plurality Within the framework of the Comenius
multiple of tasks, contents, etc.) for addressing multiple learning project EduComics the creation of online
intelligences and styles (e.g. Dunn & Dunn, 2008) and intelligences of comics is used to facilitate multiple learning
learning styles learners (Gardner, 1999). Evidence shows that ICT have styles, engage and motivate students, and
great potential to foster multiple intelligences (e.g. blogs/ utilize technology in a practical and effective
intrapersonal intelligence; motion-controlled videogames/ way.
body-kinesthetic intelligence). Source: http://www.educomics.org
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Empowering CCR should empower learners with self-regulation skills in Crescent Girls School in Singapore
self-regulated order to help them take control of their learning process, distinguishes itself in its exemplary
learning promoting self-directed learning skills and supporting educational practices that empower
reflection and meta-cognition (Zimmerman & Schunk, students to be self-directed learners
2011). ICT provide attractive, encouraging and engaging equipped with important skills required for
environments that foster self-directed learning, helping the 21st century.
learners to cope with lifelong learning. Source: http://www.crescent.edu.sg/
Personalised In CCR, learners should be at the centre of any At E-Classrooms at Škofja Loka-Mesto
learning learning process. Accordingly, curricula and methods Elementary School, a virtual learning
are continuously sensitively adjusted to respond to environment is used in order to personalize
individual learners’ needs, fostering their motivation and student learning, foster creativity and
self-expression (Redecker, et al., 2011). ICT increases innovation, and improve students’ digital
opportunities for personalized learning, e.g. maintaining literacy. Source: http://www.oecd.org/
detailed data on learners’ academic progress and using dataoecd/1/38/49930715.pdf
OER for tailor-made learning activities.
Meaningful CCR activities should be carried out in an authentic context, Fiskars elementary school provides
activities encouraging learners to apply their prior knowledge, inquiry students with active learning in authentic
and independent thinking to enhance both soft and hard “real life” contexts through an innovative
skills. ICT offer unprecedented opportunities for engaging partnership with local artists.
learners in meaningful activities (e.g. museums virtual Source: http://www.oecd.org/
tours, geotagging, etc.). dataoecd/32/28/49750430.pdf
Facilitating As learning is a social process, CCR should constantly eTwinning projects offer teachers from
peer-to-peer encourage peer collaboration. This fosters learners’ ability around Europe the opportunity to
collaboration to think both independently and with others, enabling collaborate with their counterparts in
them to consider a plurality of perspectives. Synchronous/ designing and implementing innovative
asynchronous online peer collaboration in networks and pedagogies.
communities of practice transcend space /time limitations
and are likely to increase creative learning. Source: http://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/
news/press_corner/statistics.cfm
Using/ CCR should make consistent use/reuse and remix of Several initiatives across Europe support
reusing and existing OER to broaden and update the curriculum and teachers in using platforms to exchange and
creating Open achieve the desired/expected learning outcomes. ICT reuse learning resources.
Educational increase opportunities for sharing/reusing/exchanging of
Resources (OER) resources, fostering learning communities around OER Source: http://lemill.net
which contribute to raising stakeholders’ motivation to use
OER.
Engaging In CCR, assessment should incorporate creative tasks in The Danish Pedagogical Platform utilizes
assessment order to engage and motivate learners while assessing three different portfolios (working,
formats complex skills (e.g. collaboration) developed inside and selection, and presentational) portfolios
outside school, which cannot be measured by conventional to foster learners’ competences of
assessment. ICT have the potential to keep track of, ‘knowledge’, ‘self-assessment’, ‘conduct’,
process and communicate the learning progress of each and ‘being’. Source: http://www.oecd.org/
student in totally new ways (e.g. e-portfolios). dataoecd/32/55/49749695.pdf
Embedding CCR should embed a plurality of methods and tools The University of Manchester (UK) is
formative for formative self- and peer-assessment, by assessing investigating peer-assessment in two
assessment learners’ competences (rather than factual knowledge) for contrasting scenarios.
monitoring and feedback purposes. ICT tools (e.g. online
forms, flash cards, study games creators) can provide Source: http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/ltia/
immediate feedback to students. issue4/langanwheater.shtml
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Learning events The CCR community should actively and systematically The eTwinning Group Creative Classroom
participate in learning events and also organise them uses ICT for delivering online open learning
(f2f, online and blended). ICT have the potential to deliver events on topics related to creativity in
educational courses worldwide and offer innovative ways formal education context.
for online lifelong learning e.g. Massive Open Online Source: http://groups.etwinning.net/web/
Courses (Conole, 2010). creative-classroom/welcome)
Engaging In CCR, social networks should be used to increase Absolutely Intercultural uses podcast to
through social interaction in the school community, opening up and facilitate intercultural dialogue in formal
networks modernising internal processes (Ala-Mutka, 2010). Evidence and informal learning settings, engaging
shows that social computing (blogs, Twitter, etc.) enable students and teachers on intercultural
learners and teachers to collaborate across cultures, simulations.
language barriers, and institutional walls. Source: http://www.absolutely-intercultural.
com
Implementing CCR should implement a systemic approach to learning, The Ontario case shows how effective
innovation defining and adopting a strategic and feasible development leadership should be fostered throughout
management plan. Fostering a collective culture and engagement favours the learning system, by putting in place a
sustainable innovation and makes effective use of human set of fundamental whole-system-reform
resources. Social computing helps learning organisations strategies.
become more dynamic, flexible and open, and also Source: http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/bb4e/
intensifies their collaboration with other organisations. Ontario_CaseStudy2010.pdf
Networking CCR effectively interact and cooperate with a plurality of In the Finnish Model Vihti, schools interact
with real-word actors (e.g. industries, agencies, museums, etc.), on a and cooperate with local municipalities,
context and regular basis in order to engage and experiment with social parents, NGOs, local farms and experts to
actors values and multiple cultures, and to support and foster learn by doing and to create sustainable
learners’ motivation. ICT offer innovative, powerful and learning environments outdoors.
cost-effective ways of online networking, interaction, and Source: http://www.oecd.org/
collaboration across the boundaries of time and space. dataoecd/32/21/49750537.pdf
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