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Chapter 26
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8403-4.ch026
Creativity, Digitality, and
Teacher Professional
Development:
Unifying Theory, Research, and Practice
ABSTRACT
This article describes the development of a trans-disciplinary framework for creative teaching using
technology. In recent years, the authors of this paper (and collaborators) have sought to better under-
stand the role of creativity in educational technology. Our approach seeks to inform theory, research,
and practice. In this piece we step back to provide a big-picture view of the process of developing a
theoretical framework for creative, transformational teaching with digital technology. We describe the
development of our ideas over time, through research projects focused on highly creative teachers and
their practices. We describe how we have applied these ideas in teacher education courses devoted to
creativity and technology, and developed rubrics for evaluating creative products. At a meta-level we
aim to provide a rich example of the reciprocal nature of theory, research, and practice in educational
technology. Through this we hope to provide one example of how such a theory/research/practice de-
velopment process works, with the goal of informing future work of this type.
Punya Mishra
Michigan State University, USA
Danah Henriksen
Michigan State University, USA
Rohit Mehta
Michigan State University, USA