Adobe Ideas

Year: 3/4

Strand: Design and Technologies knowledge and understanding

Sub-strand: Technologies and society

4.1 Recognise the role of people in design and technologies occupations and explore factors, including sustainability that impact on the design of products, services and environments to meet community needs

Link to resource: http://www.ipadsforeducation.vic.edu.au/education-apps/apps/2-adobe-ideas

Cross curricular priorities and general capabilities:

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures
  • Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia
  • Sustainability.

General capabilities:

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
  • Information and communication technology (ICT) capability
  • Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability
  • Ethical understanding
  • Intercultural understanding.

Links to other learning areas: Maths, English, ICT

Use in classroom:
This app allows students to brainstorm with one another from their desks. The teacher gives the students a topic to discuss and they then write their idea on the iPad. Once they have submitted it, it will go up on the smart board along with the other students.