Using technology to teach creative skills

On my Prac last year, I saw students doing Creative Arts lessons using the computers. Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I thought this was not the best way for children to develop their creative skills.                 

That is until reading Computer as a Paintbrush: Technology, Play and the Creative Society. The author discusses how computers can be used to foster creative design and expression. The case studies throughout the reading give comprehensive examples of how children are successfully combining Creative Arts and computers. It also discusses the crucial role children’s motivation and interest has in developing their creative thinking and learning.

For future success of today’s young children, I now recognise that there is a place for paintbrushes and paints as well as computers.

Rebekah offers a good discussion on creativity in schools too.

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