Developing creativity in computer lessons

When we examine the recent official curriculum documents published by the Curriculum Development Council in Hong Kong, we can observe that generic skills such as Collaboration Skills, Communication Skills, Creativity, Critical Thinking Skills, Problem-solving Skills etc. are identified as fundamental in helping students to learn. As most people agree that creativity is an essential element in the computer world, we are going to discuss the ways to develop students' creative ability in computer lessons in this paper. Copyright © 2009 ACM New York, NY, USA.