Digital Literacy Instructional Guide

Digital Tools to Support

Digital Tool

Overview

Adobe Express

A creative design and multimedia platform that allows students to produce graphics, web pages, videos, animations, and social media content. Adobe Express provides an accessible environment for creating professional-quality digital media while reinforcing design principles and visual communication. An AI-powered audio recording and editing platform that helps students create high-quality podcasts, interviews, narrations, and other audio projects with features such as speech enhancement, background noise removal, and transcription. Adobe Podcast can be used to develop communication, storytelling, and digital media production skills while creating professional-quality audio content for presentations and multimedia projects. Canvas is a learning management system (LMS) that provides a centralized platform for accessing course materials, submitting assignments, participating in discussions, receiving feedback, and communicating with teachers. Throughout the Digital Literacy course, students use Canvas to develop digital organization, communication, collaboration, and online learning skills while managing coursework in a modern digital learning environment. An online graphic design platform that enables students to create visually engaging presentations, infographics, posters, videos, and other digital media. Canva supports creative communication and is ideal for performance tasks and multimedia projects. Climate Action Kits are hands-on STEM learning kits that combine coding, sensors, and physical computing to help students investigate real-world environmental challenges through project-based learning. In the Digital Literacy course, students can use Climate Action Kits to develop computational thinking, problem-solving, data collection, and collaboration skills while exploring how digital technologies can be used to design innovative solutions to environmental issues.

Adobe Podcast

Canvas LMS

Canva

Climate Action Kits

Google Suite

A cloud-based productivity suite that supports collaboration,