Are ICT good partners for the development of creativity in the educational field? a systematic review of literature

Abstract

Creativity is considered one of the key skills of the 21st century. Likewise, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are identified as a permanently present mediation in current education, which faces the challenge of developing creative thinking in children and young people who will live and perform in a highly globalized, interconnected, changing and uncertain social and cultural context. To deepen into the relationship between the educational use of ICT and the development of creativity, a systematic literature review was carried out on 100 published studies with this subject. Within the results thrown by the review stands out on the one hand, the coexistence of three different conceptualizations on creativity and on the other hand, the identification of both contributions and barriers of ICT to the development of creative thinking that have more to do with cultural, attitudinal and organizational issues about their educational use than with the very nature of ICT.