The poster deals with the issue of creativity as one of the skills the students need to develop and master. The poster is based on two assumptions: 1) the traditional teaching method, generally speaking, tends to favour convergent thinking over divergent thinking; 2) the use of web based systems for teaching and learning may weaken the students' comprehension process. The poster describes the experience carried out as a tutor to support students attending Computer Science courses at the Facolta di Economia (University of Bologna Sede di Rimini), where basic topics are taught with a project learning approach. The students, divided into groups (of 2 to 5 each), are asked to develop projects with Microsoft ACCESS and the tutor often meets them to discuss both design problems and code problems. Whenever students report their difficulties or doubts they offer the tutor a good opportunity. As lopper does with trees, the tutor can prune the dry branches of their wrong and too conventional solutions to make the tree of their creative thinking grow better. From this point of view the ability of the tutor becomes really crucial.
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