Immersive Creative Classrooms within the Zones of Educational Priorities in Greek Primary Schools

摘要

Nowadays, ICT and Social Media utilization in primary schools becoming more challenging provided that the educators aiming at not only transferring knowledge but also at developing shared meaning and common skills within creative classrooms (CCR). In this way both the teachers and the students can work on and share experiences to support co-creativity and idea generation also having wide presence in related educational communities. CCR refer to innovative learning environments that fully embed the potential of ICT to innovate learning and teaching practices. Such environments are proposed to bring forward 'online presence' on an interface for shared knowledge to occur by enhancing trust and reliability. The teachers of Art and Theatre subjects at the 152 Primary School in Athens, Greece supported the Zones of Educational Priorities the school was chosen for. In the case study presented, presence and co-creativity are developed under CCR umbrella with the use of social media and Web 2.0 tools as well as best practices are shared within the wider Greek teachers' community network.