What:
Apple offers numerous products for educators to implement in the classroom including curriculum called Everyone Can Create and Apple Classroom. Everyone Can Create is a comprehensive curriculum to help “find the creative genius in every student” (source). The curriculum is housed in five different iBooks including a teachers guide and separate iBooks for photos, drawing, music, and video. Each iBook includes project guides that help educators bring meaningful projects to life using multiple apps across the Apple platform.
Why:
The Everyone Can Create curriculum allows students to be creative while learning tips and tricks for Apple’s most popular apps. For example, Drawing offers students a chance to publish a storybook using the apps Keynote, Pages, and Tayasui Drawing School. Photos offers student projects to learn about perspectives in images using the apps Camera, Photos, and Keynote. Videos offer students the chance to create their own movie trailer using the iMovie app but also introduces the Clips app to create shorter movies including silent films. Finally, Music allows students to master Garageband including making tunes from scratch and editing current popular music.
I completed Apple’s Everyone Can Create curriculum with sixth-grade students. I not only loved how easy it was for me to implement quickly in my classroom; but, I also loved students reactions. Numerous students began with phrases like “I’m not creative” or “I can’t draw”. Yet, after completing the Everyone Can Create projects felt empowered and readily showcased their work to other students, teachers, and their parents.
How / Next Steps:
Check out the Everyone Can Create educators guide for upper grades and for littles.
References:
References are hyperlinked above as applicable.
TLDR (too long didn’t read):
Everyone Can Create is a comprehensive curriculum to help “find the creative genius in every student” (source). The curriculum is housed in five different iBooks including a teachers guide and separate iBooks for photos, drawing, music, and video. Each iBook includes project guides that help educators bring meaningful projects life using multiple apps across the Apple platform.
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