THE CHALLENGE OF CREATIVITY FOR THE STUDENTS OF THE DIGITAL AGE
THE CHALLENGE OF CREATIVITY FOR THE STUDENTS OF THE DIGITAL AGE

Summary/Abstract: Is the young generation creative? Can we still talk about creativity for a generation that is described as being multi-tasking? If the answer is yes, what do the young generation create? Do they actually create or re-create? In the past, being creative meant especially writing poems, composing music or drawing amazing landscapes, in other words, mastering a talent. Thus, creativity was perceived as a gift for a certain group of people who were subjects of inspiration that might come no matter how long it would take. As the digital age has changed people’s lives, the outlook regarding creativity has also acquired new meanings due to the challenges of the contemporary world which demands creativity in order to find the best solutions in the shortest time to the new situations from all fields of activity. Everything is changing at a very fast pace, new technologies appear, the social environment becomes different, the labor market offers new opportunities and people need to think creatively in order to face them and to adapt to the. Educating the young generation also means today preparing them to meet the challenges of the contemporary world in which generating new ideas and adapting to them have become absolutely necessary The purpose of this paper is to investigate the opinions of teachers of language and literacy and of teachers of informatics regarding the idea of creativity at the contemporary students and to offer suggestions of encouraging creativity of the students in the digital age. The research method was the interview with both closed-ended and open-ended questions.

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