Teachers stress creativity in digital education
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Lee Seong-cheol
Park Nam-choon
By Yoon Sung-won
Lee Seong-cheol, a teacher at Donggung Elementary School in Busan, and Park Nam-choon, an industrial design professor at Seoul Women’s University, are among educators who believe that creativity is an essential element of digital education.
Lee said that mobile and cloud technologies can help students better develop creativity in digital education.
He also emphasized the necessity of digital education from the early stages in the “smart” era.
“My students use software programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Premier in class to produce multimedia content,” Lee said in a recent interview during the Adobe Education Leadership Forum 2015 in Bali, Indonesia.
Lee runs multimedia lessons for elementary school students as a part of their extracurricular activities. He has been honored several times for his demonstration of class models for digital education and for sharing his ideas with other teachers through online communities.
The teacher said students should learn how to express themselves using digital technologies.
“Providing students with easy approaches to complicated technologies, mobile devices and applications, for example, is more important than just teaching how to use such programs in order to help students develop creativity.”
Lee said teachers should prepare more thoroughly for digital education to look for easy-to-learn education methods and tools.
“We have several mobile apps available at application stores free of charge. Adobe’s mobile apps are one of the examples. I also use them in classes,” he said. “These apps should be easy to use and have intuitive designs.”
Lee said it expect to see more financial support from the government to arrange digital education materials and mobile devices for classes in the future.
Professor Park, who teaches industrial design and creativity at the professional level, said cloud technology will facilitate collaboration works and lead to more creative outputs.
“Creativity can be learned from collaborative works where students watch others’ works and share different opinions about them,” Park said. “In the past, students and designers had to gather at the same place to collaborate for one piece of art. But cloud technology allows them do the same work while in separate places. This means that they can more effectively concentrate on coming up with creative ideas.”