Share Paper: Four Actions of Teacher Creativity to Support Professional Learning Using New Technology

1. Matthew Worwood, University of Connecticut, United States

Abstract: The global pandemic experiences are extreme, but in many ways, they highlight an already existing situation present as a consequence of the Digital Age. As teaching practitioners, we must routinely work independently to explore, experiment, and use new technology as part of our professional practice in the classroom. This situation provides an opportunity to facilitate teacher creativity in response to ill-defined problems introduced due to new technology. Scholarly research into creativity offers many ways to evaluate this construct; however, this workshop presents a pragmatic approach that builds upon existing creative problem-solving methods with a strong emphasis on design thinking. The ...