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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Hong, Jon-Chao; Chen, Mei-Yung; Hwang, Ming-Yueh – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2013
A case study was undertaken in a junior high school that had won the highest award of the National PowerTech Contest in Taiwan. In the contest, students were required to create their own wooden robot (mechatronics project) in the morning and compete in the afternoon, in order to better avoid the intervention of parents and teachers in the process.…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, After School Programs, Foreign Countries, Clubs
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Barak, Moshe; Mesika, Pnina – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2007
Fostering pupils' competencies in inventive thinking and problem-solving has remained a rather unresolved issue in traditional schooling, mainly because many people regard creative thinking as a God-given ability, something an individual either possesses or does not possess, but can only be slightly learned or improved. The current study is aimed…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Junior High School Students, Creative Thinking, Heuristics