Creativity is a quality teachers should have with or without using ICTs. The reality we as language teachers face every day is that everything is done but nothing is done in language education. When we start exploring the wonderful world of ICTs, we can realize that many sources have been created for us. Everything is there: prezi, slideshare, pearltrees, multiple web sites, facebook, blogs, movie maker, youtube, skype, an uncountable sources we might not have explored. However, this is not the interesting part; the interesting side of all this is the challenge that all those sources present to us, as teachers. Everything is to be done with them.
Being a language teacher in the past required to have a lot of skills: using the board, drawing pictures, imitate, show colorful material to students, find different ways to have them interact with each other, were some of the activities teachers had to do to make their students learn. This does not mean, however, that we do not have to do this nowadays; but the real fact is that we have mutiple ways to explore our creativity by using ICTs now. All the available sources could become useless if we do not use them properly. What does "use them properly" mean? Use them with a clear purpose, no matter what this purpose is.
A clear purpose is paramount. Even if we do not have access to technological resources, we need to have a clear purpose anyway. But if we have access to this "magic" world of ICTs, let's not miss the opportunity to learn from them and improve our creativity differently. This means that we are open minded and willing to learn anything that benefits our students and ourselves.
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