Students’ Questioning and Creativity

Abstract

University students must develop several higher-order skills along their higher education route. One of these fundamental skills is creativity. The practice of questioning is one of the modes to enhance creativity. In this paper, the authors illustrate how students’ approaches to creativity can be linked to the types of questions they ask in Higher Education. Several teaching and learning strategies were implemented in a geology course and a chemistry course, at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, as a way of promoting students’ questioning competence. The relationship between the kinds of questions asked and the students’ approaches to creativity is analysed and discussed.

Framing Technology Enhanced Learning Environments

“…Learning environments can be established with the goal of detecting and promoting abilities such as question asking, hunting for clues, making hypotheses, recognizing appropriateness and reliability signals, using search tools and strategies in an informed and flexible way. The practice of questioning, in particular using ICT-based tools, is an important means to enhance creativity, which is traditionally considered one of the core abilities of the 21st century education (Almeida et al, 2011).…”

Paper Wrapping, Using Connectivity Among Paper Faces

“…Thus, it is not always easy for beginners to wrap various shapes of target-objects by appropriate paper sheets compactly or adaptively. Of course, the paper wrapping is one of many intelligent and creative activities (Almeida, Teixeira-Dias, & Medina, 2011;Bottino, Ott, & Tavella, 2011): the factors such as object shape, object quality, paper size, paper feature, wrapping purpose, wrapping usage and so on are critical elements for intelligent work. In this paper, we address a paper wrapping method to support cooperative operations for beginners, based on knowledge about adjacent relationships among wrappingside faces.…”