This document discusses using technology and creative learning approaches to promote social change. It describes a project that connects students from different schools to collaborate on Scratch animations about global issues like children's rights and gender equality. The project follows a methodology where students introduce themselves, choose an issue, create characters and backgrounds, and build animations, stories or games through asynchronous work and debate. Research was conducted on the relationship between computational thinking and creativity among participating students. The project aims to expand to more schools internationally and improve teaching materials and methodologies over time.

1. Technology, Creative Learning and Social Change
Eduard Muntaner-Perich
www.eduard.cat
@eduardm

3. SHORMILA

4. SARAY

6. Website:
www.inventors4change.org

7. https://vimeo.com/129111438

9. Creative Learning
Active Learning, Constructionism, PBL, Computational Thinking, Design Thinking…

10. Connected Learning
Virtual Exchange, Peer Culture, Collaborative Learning, Shared Purpose…

11. Critical Thinking
Education for Global Citizenship, Development Education,
Global Education, Human Rights Education…

12. Participating Schools (first 2 years)

13. Methodology
Step 1: Introductions
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/14064599/

14. Methodology
Step 2: Choosing a global issue & Debates
Children Rights Gender Equality
Year 1 Year 2

15. Methodology
Step 3: Creating Characters
Asynchronous work, debate, and iterations…

16. Methodology
Step 4: Creating Backgrounds
Asynchronous work, debate, and iterations…

17. Methodology
Step 5: Creating Animations, Stories, Games…
Asynchronous work, debate, and iterations…
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/52469392/

18. Methodology
Discussions

19. Why Scratch?

20. Teacher training & Workshops for children

21. Research:
On the Relationship between Computational Thinking and Creativity:
a Study among Primary School Children (Carme Auguet School)
Creative Thinking
Originality, Elaboration, Openness-Resistance to
Premature Closure, Unusual Visualization,
Movement, Colorfulness of Imagery, Emotions,
Humor, Fluency, Flexibility, Story telling…
Computational Thinking
Sequences, Loops, Events, Parallelism,
Conditionals, Incremental Design,
Reusing/Remixing, Abstracting and modularizing,
Completeness of the solution…
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22. Future Work
• Open the project: same 6 schools + several new learning
centres (Canary Islands, UK, India…)
• Revise calendars and methodologies
• Design teaching materials, curriculum guides
• Platform for co-creation (idea generation, discussion, voting…)

23. Technology, Creative Learning and Social Change
Eduard Muntaner-Perich
www.eduard.cat
@eduardm