{"id":5789,"date":"2018-04-10T08:24:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T12:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/?p=5789"},"modified":"2019-06-03T15:56:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T19:56:18","slug":"adobe-spark-creative-problem-solving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/adobe-spark-creative-problem-solving\/","title":{"rendered":"To Foster Creative Problem Solving, Adobe Spark Has Been Made Available to Schools for Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Tania, a student at Cave Springs Middle School in Roanoke County, VA, shows off her latest Spark creation. Photo by Chuck Lionberger, Roanoke County Public Schools.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Adobe announced that they would be making their multifaceted presentation software, Spark, available for free to any and every school that wishes to use it. The announcement is the company\u2019s latest commitment to fostering creative problem solving, a skill they have identified as crucial in the face of automation. Earlier this year, they <a href=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/adobe-creative-problem-solving\/\">released a study<\/a> conducted in classrooms in the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Japan on creative problem solving, why it\u2019s important, and how it\u2019s often neglected. Sharif Karmally, a senior product marketing manager at Adobe and lecturer at Berkeley\u2019s Haas School of Business, sat down to discuss the role Adobe Spark can play in the classroom.<\/p>\n<h1>The Role Adobe Spark Can Play in the Classroom<\/h1>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve seen second grade teachers use Spark video to teach language before students are fully literate,\u201d Karmally said. \u201cThey\u2019ll upload images into a Spark video and have the students go through [and] press on a little microphone video and record the word that corresponds to the image they see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeachers are seeing opportunities in their curricula where Spark can be more fun and engaging [than traditional teach tools]. At the same time, it\u2019s something achievable in a 45-minute class where students will not only meet their learning outcomes but learn even more deeply about the subject because they were so engaged with the material.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gmFWOo02YU4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Adobe recently tested Spark out with a class at the Roanoke County Public School system in Virginia. Seeking to get 6<sup>th<\/sup> grade students interested in foreign countries, teachers asked them to conduct research and create a mock TV commercial using the software.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s an assignment that, in the past, they might have used a word processor for or something even more basic,\u201d Karmally said. \u201cNow they\u2019re making this interesting, rich video commercial and learning even more deeply about these countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Karmally, and the teachers whom he\u2019s observed, Spark has uses in just about every grade level. He\u2019s also witnessed 10<sup>th<\/sup> grade classes use the software to make a promotional clip for their high school football team.<\/p>\n<h1>Designed for Intuitive Use<\/h1>\n<p>Adobe\u2019s goal behind making Spark freely available is foster creative problem solving. A big takeaway from their recent study is that, while teachers want to engender those skills in their students, they don\u2019t have the time or resources to learn new software and brainstorm ways to use it in their class. With Spark, you don\u2019t need a manual or even much orientation at all.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5798\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5798\" style=\"width: 441px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5798\" src=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/roanoke-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Adobe Spark\" width=\"441\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/roanoke-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/roanoke-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/roanoke-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/roanoke-1-223x148.jpg 223w, https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/roanoke-1-360x241.jpg 360w, https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/roanoke-1.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5798\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers and students from Cave Springs Middle School in Roanoke County test out Adobe Spark. Photo by Chuck Lionberger, Roanoke County Public Schools.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSpark was designed for quick and easy creation,\u201d Karmally said. \u201cWhen you look at what it takes to get going in Spark, you just need to be able to click a \u2018+\u2019 button. When we talk about Spark, we say that if you can click a plus button, you can use Adobe Spark. It intuitively helps you add content and guides you through the process so that you can have something that you\u2019re proud to share. We\u2019ve had countless teachers, countless students where, in the same class in which they were introduced to Spark, 45 minutes later, they\u2019ve made something. There\u2019s no additional training. There\u2019s no going to some class to learn more about it. It literally is that quick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This confidence in creating something you\u2019re proud to share gets to the core of creative problem solving. And as Karmally puts it, a lot of students lose that skill as they grow older. \u201cWhat I see when I visit classrooms\u2014and I visit a lot of classrooms in my role at Adobe\u2014is students in lower grades jumping out of their seat and running to the iPad cart or running to the Chromebook. They are so eager to do whatever the teacher has assigned with a product like Adobe Spark. Whereas when I visit 12<sup>th<\/sup> grade or 11<sup>th<\/sup> grade or even 10<sup>th<\/sup> grade classes, students will often feel like \u2018Well, I\u2019m not going to be very good at it because I\u2019m not a creative person.\u2019 That never really comes up in the younger grades. It seems to me that, at some point, people feel that being creative is no longer something they can do. It\u2019s something they either have or don\u2019t have. Spark is, I believe, something that gives people a great deal of creative confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you feel that proud of something you\u2019ve created at a young age, that must have an impact on whether or not you step up later in life and say, \u2018I can create this, I can design a solution to this problem, I can start my own business, I can figure this out on my own, I can learn whatever I need to along the way.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a driving motive behind making Adobe Spark free for schools. \u201cWe\u2019re giving a really powerful and simple tool to educators and students that we\u2019re already seeing is transforming the classroom and building these creative problem solving skills that we know will be absolutely critical in the future in the world of automation when jobs look nothing like they do today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When we talk about Spark, we say that if you can click a plus button, you can use Adobe Spark. 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