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This study identified the potential impacts and challenges of initiating an educational program aimed at cultivating students’ creativity through Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning and Integrated Practical Activity in primary schools in rural areas of China. Based on the data, the authors found that the teacher highly valued student-centered classes with supportive teacher roles, and the program had a positive impact on students’ creativity. In particular, the intervention for group work led to significant improvement for two students who were previously underperforming. However, there were also social factors that acted as barriers to the teacher’s professional development in fostering children’s creativity through Integrated Practical Activities.
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Zhang, X., Shi, Y., Li, X., Iwasaki, C., Amano, K., Kubota, K. (2024). Enhancing Youth Creativity Through Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning: A Preliminary Investigation in Rural Chinese Elementary School. In: Ma, W.W.K., Li, C., Fan, C.W., U, L.H., Lu, A. (eds) Blended Learning. Intelligent Computing in Education. ICBL 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14797. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-4442-8_23
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