Fostering cartoon-style creativity with sensitive agent support in tomorrow’s classroom

Cooper, B. and Brna, P. (2001) Fostering cartoon-style creativity with sensitive agent support in tomorrow’s classroom. Educational Technology and Society, 4(2), pp. 32-40.

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Abstract

The Networked Interactive Media in Schools (NIMIS) project is an EU funded project based in three countries, which has designed and evaluated a classroom of the future for infants. The Computer Based Learning Unit at Leeds University, in conjunction with teachers and children has developed an application, ‘T'rrific Tales’, which allows children of age 5-6 years to co-construct a multi-frame cartoon to help story-writing with the help of an empathic agent. In this paper we discuss the factors that promote creativity and how the design of T'rrific Tales, used in the NIMIS classroom, is intended to help children be creative and includes the positive early results of our analysis of the stories told by the children.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Brna, Prof Paul
Authors: Cooper, B., and Brna, P.
College/School:College of Social Sciences > School of Education
Journal Name:Educational Technology and Society
ISSN:1436-4522

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