Beyond Drill and Practice: Using the Computer for Creative Decisionmaking.

Gerber, Beverly Levett

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Publication Date: 1994

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Beyond Drill and Practice: Using the Computer for Creative Decisionmaking.

Gerber, Beverly Levett

Preventing School Failure, v38 n2 p25-30 Win 1994

This article explores the use of a computer art program to teach creative decision-making skills to students with moderate mental retardation (ages 16 to 21). Learning characteristics of this population are described. Benjamin Bloom's taxonomy of cognitive skills is applied to help students progress from concrete to abstract thinking. (DB)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Art Education, Cognitive Development, Computer Uses in Education, Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Decision Making, High Schools, Moderate Mental Retardation, Student Characteristics, Thinking Skills, Young Adults

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Language: English

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