Storytelling as a creative activity in the classroom

Alejandro  Catala; Mariët Theune; Hannie Gijlers; Dirk Heylen

doi:10.1145/3059454.3078857

Storytelling as a creative activity in the classroom

Alejandro Catala, Mariët Theune, Hannie Gijlers, Dirk Heylen

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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Abstract

In our ongoing research, we argue that storytelling activities can be used as creative tasks to stimulate creativity in children, one of the so-called 21st century skills. In this paper, we lay the foundations for our project on digitally supported storytelling, by gathering the viewpoints on storytelling and creativity expressed by local primary school teachers and reviewing methods reported in the literature. We report the main characteristics and features to consider in creative storytelling activities, and present our current work on a distributed storytelling interface for supporting children's creative skills development that meets the practical requirements found in the literature and expressed by the teachers.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	C&C '17
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2017
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	237-242
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-4403-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3059454.3078857 https://doi.org/10.1145/3059454.3078857
Publication status	Published - 22 Jun 2017
Event	2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition, C&C 2017 - Singapore, Singapore Duration: 27 Jun 2017 → 30 Jun 2017

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Conference	2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition, C&C 2017
Abbreviated title	C&C
Country	Singapore
City	Singapore
Period	27/06/17 → 30/06/17

Keywords

21st century skills
Creativity
Storytelling
Teachers' views
Technology

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Catala, A, Theune, M , Gijlers, H & Heylen, D 2017, Storytelling as a creative activity in the classroom. in C&C '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2017. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 237-242, 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition, C&C 2017, Singapore, Singapore, 27/06/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3059454.3078857, https://doi.org/10.1145/3059454.3078857

Storytelling as a creative activity in the classroom. / Catala, Alejandro ; Theune, Mariët ; Gijlers, Hannie ; Heylen, Dirk.

C&C '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2017. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2017. p. 237-242.

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