Understanding Creativity Enabled Through Information Technology
Here’s the question I’ve been asking myself: When technology enables a person to make something that looks professional without having to master any degree of craft, does that increase or decrease the likelihood of creativity? And can educators be lulled into a false impression that they have been developing creativity in students when using technologies that produce brilliantlooking results? Does my Wordle cloud give only the illusion of creativity?
A number of software applications are aligned to the “creating” level of Bloom’s taxonomy—for example, animation programs like Flipbook, video-editing programs like iMovie, and storytelling programs like Toontasic. However, no technology can guarantee creative output. How is giving a child access to the drawing program Kidpix different from giving a child a coloring book and praising him or her for staying in the lines?
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Folksonomies: education creativity
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Computer program (0.808774): dbpedia | freebase
Computer software (0.803413): dbpedia
Application software (0.727662): dbpedia | freebase | opencyc | yago
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Technology (0.642648): dbpedia | freebase
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Technology and the Illusion of CreativitySchemas
Education: Creativity
