ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a dialogic technology-enhanced pedagogy to promote collaborative creativity. This pedagogy has been elaborated by both researchers and teachers and has been implemented and evaluated through a series of classroom-based projects. The chapter presents the theoretical vantage points underpinning the pedagogical framework. Educational research has revealed the importance of the dialogic technology-enhanced pedagogy for supporting classroom dialogue, thinking and learning. A dialogic approach to collaborative creativity is understood as engaging students in sustained stretches of talk which enable speakers and listeners to explore and build on their own and others’ creative ideas and new perspectives to emerge from the interplay of voices. The dialogic technology-enhanced pedagogy orchestrates the following three educational dimensions, namely: creation of a dialogic space for thinking creatively together; dialogic use of interactive technologies and enrichment and orchestration of creative processes and group flow. There is a need to research the enactment of dialogic pedagogy to promote collective creativity by using technology in real-life classrooms.
