Adobe for Education empowers institutions to get the most out of students by offering world-class digital software.
In this constantly evolving digital world equipping students with the digital skills to thrive within the competitive working world has become increasingly essential. Investing in leading digital software bridges the digital literacy gap making the transition from classroom to career a lot less daunting.
When you foster creativity and teach digital skills to all your students in every major, they learn how to think critically, solve problems creatively, and express ideas in compelling ways. These skills empower students to succeed both in school and in their careers.
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Here are five things you need to know about digital literacy and the benefits it brings to both your students and your school:
Adobe 5 benefits of Digital Literacy
Digital literacy boosts student engagement.
When students use powerful creative tools like Adobe Creative Cloud for their assignments and projects, they engage more deeply with the content, which helps them better understand information and communicate their knowledge in visually and digitally compelling ways. At the same time, faculty with digital skills can also make their course materials more visually compelling to drive student engagement.
Digital literacy improves academic performance.
According to Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy, the act of creating requires a higher order of thinking than other activities like remembering, understanding, and applying. When students use Creative Cloud tools to create presentations, infographics, podcasts, videos, or ePortfolios for their assignments, they understand it more deeply and retain it longer. This enables them to communicate their ideas, discoveries, and arguments in more innovative ways—often exceeding expectations in classes across all disciplines.
Developing digital literacy builds essential soft skills.
In doing the work of becoming digitally literate, students have to think critically, solve problems creatively, and collaborate effectively. In other words, they gain the essential skills they’ll need to succeed in the jobs of the future—jobs that are less likely to be impacted by automation technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Digital literacy helps students stand out from their competition in the job market.
Students who are proficient with digital tools like Creative Cloud can more easily differentiate themselves during the job application process. They can create media-rich resumes and showcase their personal brands with e-Porfolios of their student work. They can walk into interviews prepared to show examples of the digital communication skills companies expect, and they can demonstrate their ability to learn and apply new technology skills. Perhaps most importantly, they can prove that they’ve developed the creative mindset employers crave.
Digital literacy makes your school more competitive.
Today’s digital natives are content creators, not just content consumers. By providing Creative Cloud to students across majors and disciplines—not just art and design majors— you can differentiate your institution, ensure that students are digitally literate, and recruit new students more successfully. For example, innovative schools like Winston-Salem State University, University of Arizona, Austin Community College, and many others are making digital literacy and student access and equity a priority.
Learning Curve makes it easy for faculty in any discipline to incorporate Creative Cloud into their curricula. Our dedicated education team are equipped to share step by steps on how to use Adobe Creative Cloud to help students create graphics, videos, interactive web and mobile experiences, and more. With affordable options like student packs and institution-wide licenses, you can put Creative Cloud tools at your students’ fingertips and build their digital literacy skills— whether they’re in class, at home, or on the go.
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