Creative Problem Solving Skills Are Key to Tomorrow’s Jobs, but Today’s Curricula Are Leaving Students Behind
January 24 2018 - 3:00AM
Business Wire
Expanded Adobe Creative Cloud education offering helps bridge
today’s critical skills gap for students
Today at Bett, Europe’s largest exhibition for technology in
education, Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) released a global research study on
the importance of teaching creative problem solving skills to
students to ensure their success in tomorrow’s workplace. In
researching Creative Problem Solving in Schools: Essential Skills
Today’s Students Need for Jobs in Tomorrow’s Age of Automation,
Adobe surveyed 2,000 educators and policymakers from the U.K.,
Japan, Germany and the U.S., and learned how the people shaping
education and students’ experiences view creative problem solving
as a critical skillset.
Overwhelmingly, three quarters of respondents predicted that
professions which require creative problem solving skills are less
likely to be adversely impacted by automation, underscoring the
urgent need for these skills to be taught in the classroom to
prepare students for jobs of the future. Yet, the study also
identified that the current lack of access to relevant tools and
technologies is one of the biggest barriers to teaching these
skills in schools today.
To give educators and students the tools and support they most
need to address this gap, Adobe also announced changes to improve
accessibility and foster creative problem solving curricula for
students and education institutions. First, Adobe Spark, a fun and
frictionless creative storytelling application, will be made free
to every student globally. And for the first time, all
students—including those under 13—can access Creative Cloud both on
their school and home devices with the same easy-to-use log-in
credentials. Educators can also now choose from more than 20 free
collaborative courses taught by their peers, explore other
professional resources and discover a community of 450,000 creative
educators who are ready to share best practices and help boost
creative problem solving and digital literacy.
“There is a clear gap between what educators and policymakers
know tomorrow’s workforce needs, and what today’s students are
learning in school,” said Tacy Trowbridge, global lead, Education
Programs, Adobe. “Educators, policymakers and industry—technology
in particular—need to come together to improve opportunities for
students. Creative technologies can help educators teach and
nurture critically important ‘soft’ skills, and policies and
curricula need to evolve to complete the equation.”
Adobe’s New Education Offerings to Help Nurture Creative
Problem Solving Skills
To help foster the teaching of creative problem solving and
improve accessibility for education institutions to its creative
tools and services, Adobe announced three new Creative Cloud and
Spark offerings, starting in April 2018:
- Spark Premium, regularly valued at
$120/year, will be available to all schools and universities at no
cost in April. Spark is a storytelling service for use across web
and mobile, and is regularly used by teachers to help students
build their storytelling skills and improve their confidence in
their own creative abilities.
- For the first time, students under the
age of 13 can be granted access to Creative Cloud services,
consistent with U.S. children’s privacy regulations. Please visit
here for more details about COPPA.
- New School I.D. integration offers
single sign-on, enabling students to use their school
identification to log into Creative Cloud apps at school or at
home. This gives students the freedom they need to create, discover
and learn outside of the classroom.
Additional Study Findings
Teachers and educators interviewed revealed that they believe
students learn better via creating and when they can address
different scenarios with a hands-on, immersive approach. Yet
despite this clear consensus, there is a disconnect between
educators and policymakers and what is happening in the classroom
today. Almost all educators surveyed—90 percent—believe we need to
find better ways to integrate creative problem solving into the
curricula, and more than half of educators explain that they do not
have the tools, training or knowledge to nurture creative problem
solving in their students.
Other key findings include:
- In the global markets surveyed, the
most important creative problem solving skills for students to
learn are:
- Independent learning
- Learning through success and
failure
- Working within diverse teams
- Self-expression and dialogue
- Persistence, grit and entrepreneurial
spirit
- Accepting challenges and taking
risks
- Conflict management and
argumentation
- Innovative thinking
- Seventy-nine percent of educators feel
that there is a lack of time to create, which is the biggest
barrier to nurturing creative problem solving. Among educators who
do not have access to the tools and training they need, over half
say school budget restraints are a barrier.
- Eighty percent of educators who use
Creative Cloud in their classrooms believe their students are more
prepared to employ these skills in future jobs than educators who
don’t use Creative Cloud (60 percent).
To read the full study findings, please visit
http://cps.adobeeducate.com/.
About Adobe
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