All I really need to know (about creative thinking) I learned (by studying how children learn) in kindergarten

By Mitchel Resnick. Creativity & Cognition, 2007

345 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Bringing computational thinking to K-12: what is Involved and what is the role of the computer science education community? (2011, background): “As they note, these kinds of activities also involve an iterative design, refi nement, and refl ection process that Resnick [9] argues is central to creative as well as computational thinking.”
Computational thinking for youth in practice (2011, background): “Computational thinking projects like these support an iterative cycle of refi nement that enables increasing a sense of agency, where learners are empowered to imagine, create, play, share, and refl ect on what they are learning [9].”
Playing around in school: Implications for learning and educational policy. (2010, background): “In short, the 21st century children must be creative, flexible thinkers and lifelong learners who can achieve significant change in the world (Bell-Rose & Desai, 2005; Fromberg, 2002; Hirsh-Pasek, Golinkoff, Berk, & Singer, 2009; Resnick, 2007).”