Creative Technologies education – lessons learnt and future directions

This chapter summarises the current state of the art in creative Technologies education where students are positioned as digital designers, and reflects upon how we can best advance creative Technologies education in the future. It distils key insights from previous chapters about how teachers can best develop students’ digital design capabilities using a wide range of technologies, considering critical issues such as inclusion, assessment, and learning pathways. The chapter also outlines the forefront of future-focused design, where students engage with speculative design thinking. The heightened importance of digital design capabilities in an increasingly Artificial Intelligence (AI) world is unpacked, as is the critical role of developing students’ values and virtues alongside their digital and general capabilities. The importance of professional learning communities, research, a supportive policy environment, and, above all else, the primacy of the teacher is emphasised to most effectively advance creative Technologies education.