TIC TAC is a Development Cooperation project of the University of Girona (Spain) focused on helping two elementary schools in Catalonia. These two schools, in the cities of Girona and Salt have very high immigration rates (greater than 85%), and are in danger of becoming “ghetto schools”. Currently, these two schools regularly visit our spaces in the Science and Technology Park of University of Girona, where they actively participate in several workshops and activities designed by our team. In a very significant part of these activities children use Scratch to learn to express themselves creatively through technology, and then as they progress, they participate in workshops on LEGO robots, underwater robots, rescue robots, astronomy and technological gymkhanas in the city. For us, this initiative has evolved from an outreach project to a research project, where we study and measure how these technologies help develop creative thinking and critical thinking. Right now we're starting to get our first results. In the session at the Scratch Conference next July, we would like to present these first results, with particular emphasis on the Scratch workshops we are carrying out in three groups of fifth graders of the two selected schools.

1. TIC TAC Project. Creativity as a
driver of Human Development
Eduard Muntaner-Perich, Jordi Freixenet
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2. Who we are
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3. Girona - South India -
Girona
2005-2006
Shanti Bhavan,
India
ICT-Volunteer
http://www.shantibhavanonline.org
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4. Girona - South India -
Girona
2009-2010
2005-2006 Shanti Bhavan:
Robotics + Scratch
Shanti Bhavan,
India
Development
Volunteer Cooperation UdG
“Creativity as a driver of Human
Development”
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5. Girona - South India -
Girona
2012-2013
Shanti Bhavan + another
school
2009-2010
2005-2006 Shanti Bhavan:
Robotics + Scratch
Shanti Bhavan, Telefónica Found.
India
TIC TAC Project Girona
and Salt (Spain)
Development
Volunteer Cooperation UdG
UdiGital.edu
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6. TIC TAC Project
• Same idea: Creativity as a driver of Human Development
• 2 Public schools in disadvantaged areas of Girona and Salt
- Dalmau Carles (Girona) and Veïnat (Salt): 3 groups (60 students)
• Concept: Magnet School
- To make attending them an attractive choice
- To increase the diversity of the student population within them
• First phase: each fifth-grade class visits us once every two weeks
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7. Organization of the
sessions
Hands-on workshop Creativity
capsule
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8. Program: session 0
Visiting the schools
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9. Program: session 1
Creativity capsule: the
Introduction to Scratch importance of observation
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10. Program: session 2
Creative thinking test
Creating games by
using their own faces
Creativity capsule:
story-board
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11. Program: session 3
Creativity capsule:
Introduction to LEGO how to see things
WeDo + Scratch from different
perspectives
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12. Program: session 4
Champions League
LEGO WeDo + Scratch
Creativity capsule:
how to record
videos and
interviews
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13. Program: session 5
Introduction to LEGO Mindstorms
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14. Program: session 6
LEGO Mindstorms: Creativity capsule: how
following paths to create contours and
scale
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15. Program: session 7
LEGO Mindstorms: drawing Creativity capsule:
lines importance of lines in art
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16. Program: session 8
Astronomy: calculating the Visiting the CIRS:
rotation period of the Sun Underwater Robotics
Research Center
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17. Program: session 9
Legends of Girona: Augmented Reality and Geopositioning
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18. Program: session 10
Scratch: Programming
simulations
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19. Program: session 11
Visiting the schools again
and 2nd
Creative Thinking Test
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20. Program: session 12
Forum Impulsa: Scratch workshop
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21. Evaluation: Creative Thinking
Test
- Adapted from Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (1962)
- Figural test (thinking with pictures)
- Verbal test (thinking with words)
- Extra question: mathematical reasoning
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22. Evaluation: Creative Thinking
Test
- Each test has 43 points to be evaluated (0, 0.5, 1)
- We are evaluating characteristics like originality, flexibility,
elaboration, emotional expressiveness, fantasy, etc.
- 43 points x 2 tests x 60 students x 4 evaluators = 20,640 points
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23. Preliminary results
Test results:
Scores (Test 1):
Mean (Average): 19.71143
Standard deviation: 6.23297
Scores (Test 2):
Mean (Average): 18.55714
Standard deviation: 4.7832
Reliability of the test
• Linear Correlation Coefficient between evaluators:
Min: 0.532, Max: 0.936, Average: 0.729
• Linear Correlation Coefficient between the 2 tests:
Average: 0.325
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24. Conclusions
- More than 30 workshops completed
- 2 Creative Thinking Tests given
- Very good level of satisfaction of participants (students and
accompanying teachers)
- The project has had a good impact: Carme Auguet School, Forum Impulsa…
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25. Conclusions
- The combination of hands-on workshops and creativity capsules seems to
work very well.
- We detected an interest of teachers for training. So next semester we will
include teacher training activities.
- We need at least an extra year of workshops and some other tests in order to
obtain conclusive results.
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26. TIC TAC Project
Eduard Muntaner-Perich
emuntane@eia.udg.edu
Jordi Freixenet: jordi.freixenet@udg.edu
Project website: http://udigital.udg.edu
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