Sir, – John Devlin (April 3rd) highlights the main problem with technology in education – it is not the technology that matters, it is what you do with it.
Of course technology will “destroy creativity” if it is used within an education system that does not value creativity. Just as much as a book, or a piece of chalk and a blackboard can be used to “destroy creativity” if used by the wrong hands or in the wrong system.
But laptops, desktops, and tablets can also be used to bring a history class to life with a news clip from the second World War, to make maths seem suddenly real through a line of code for an app, or to tap into an undiscovered creative streak in editing a photograph to look the way it “felt” when it was taken. – Yours, etc,
STEVEN DALY,
TechSpace,
Sandymount Avenue,
Dublin 4.