{"id":7922,"date":"2019-10-04T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clifmims.com\/?p=7922"},"modified":"2019-09-30T10:22:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T15:22:59","slug":"teach-practical-life-skills-using-googles-applied-digital-skills-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clifmims.com\/teach-practical-life-skills-using-googles-applied-digital-skills-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Teach Practical Life Skills using Google&#8217;s Applied Digital Skills Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/BmsWjxtMsLBcu9wkqZzFaf3O9Ih2RRaLdjEVrCg7tKQyuNijBdsLbfmsIRXuRO-9q76gQVgebsiAa7OzKiVoPppn9h4uCQgzgsLOW_5DNvBHqeH8gFFp2qIJwqKFALWZ3yWDH0dv\" alt=\"Image result for google's applied digital skills\"\/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.controlaltachieve.com\/2018\/04\/applied-digital-skills.html\">Image source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/applieddigitalskills.withgoogle.com\/s\/en\/home\">Google\u2019s Applied Digital Skills<\/a> program is an online platform with project-based engaging lessons to teach middle school and high students, as well as adult learners, practical skills for work and life (<a href=\"https:\/\/applieddigitalskills.withgoogle.com\/s\/en\/home\">source<\/a>). These lessons include practical life skills of writing a business plan, creating and balancing a budget, managing a project, as well as digital training for everyday tasks using Google\u2019s GSuite for Education products, among many others.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Implementing Google\u2019s Applied Digital Skills program into your classroom is an easy and effective way to teach students practical life skills that are often overlooked in today\u2019s tech-savvy world. The engaging project-based lessons for the digital training suite include instruction on data analysis, research and communication, as well as coding and literacy (<a href=\"https:\/\/applieddigitalskills.withgoogle.com\/en\/digital-training\">source<\/a>).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How to:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using Google\u2019s Applied Digital Skills is easy. Simply create an account using your Google account and create a class. Once your class is created, you can assign content and monitor student progress. You do not have to create any lesson plan or content because Google has already done that. Simply \u201csignup, teach and encourage, evaluate students, and foster collaboration\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/applieddigitalskills.withgoogle.com\/en\/teaching-resources\">source<\/a>).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Next Steps<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interested in learning more? Check out the websites below for great information.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/edtechteacher.org\/get-started-with-googles-applied-digital-skills-curriculum\/\">Using Google&#8217;s Applied Digital Skills&nbsp;<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/applieddigitalskills\/answer\/9366526?hl=en\">Support for Google&#8217;s Applied Digital Skills<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.controlaltachieve.com\/2018\/09\/apski-updates-2018.html\">Updates for Google\u2019s Applied Digital Skills&nbsp;<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All sourced information is hyperlinked as applicable above.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TLDR (too long didn\u2019t read):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/applieddigitalskills.withgoogle.com\/s\/en\/home\">Google\u2019s Applied Digital Skills<\/a> program is an online platform with project-based engaging lessons to teach middle school and high students, as well as adult learners, practical skills for work and life (<a href=\"https:\/\/applieddigitalskills.withgoogle.com\/s\/en\/home\">source<\/a>). These lessons include practical life skills of writing a business plan, creating and balancing a budget, managing a project, as well as digital training for everyday tasks using Google\u2019s GSuite for Education, among many others.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>@hollandkaylah<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What: Google\u2019s Applied Digital Skills program is an online platform with project-based engaging lessons to teach middle school and high students, as well as adult learners, practical skills for work and life (source). These lessons include practical life skills of writing a business plan, creating and balancing a budget, managing a project, as well as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/clifmims.com\/teach-practical-life-skills-using-googles-applied-digital-skills-program\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Teach Practical Life Skills using Google&#8217;s Applied Digital Skills Program<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3337,3046],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd4P5-23M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clifmims.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clifmims.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clifmims.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clifmims.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clifmims.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clifmims.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7923,"href":"https:\/\/clifmims.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7922\/revisions\/7923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clifmims.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clifmims.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clifmims.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}