5 ways to boost your students' digital creativity

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21 April 2021

Creative digital skills are increasingly vital to both finding work and progressing, as well as active participation in society. The surge in our reliance on technology during the pandemic has further highlighted just how vital these skills are, and the crucial role they will play in the recovery programme and beyond.

Boosting digital creativity in students doesn’t have to mean additional work on a teacher's already demanding curriculum.

Here are five tried-and-tested strategies to tackle these challenges and build creative digital skills in young people.  

1. Utilise students’ existing tech knowledge

Boosting digital creativity in students doesn’t have to mean additional work on a teacher's already demanding curriculum. 

“Students are already using these tools in their free time, so why not bring that to the classroom?” says Cheryl Shirley, lead teacher of technology for learning at the LEO Academy Trust. “That's what they love and enjoy, so that's what's going to engage them.”


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