{"id":9724,"date":"2016-07-14T06:41:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T10:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edtechteacher.org\/?p=9724"},"modified":"2025-10-13T14:30:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T18:30:42","slug":"inspire-student-creativity-with-chromebooks-from-greg-kulowiec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edtechteacher.org\/inspire-student-creativity-with-chromebooks-from-greg-kulowiec\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspire Student Creativity with Chromebooks – from Greg Kulowiec"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post first appeared on Daily Genius<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Greg-Google\"While access to information does not make a student instantly knowledgeable, it does change the role of the teacher. This transformation leads to the question of, why creativity? <\/i>One needs only to examine the current landscape and intersection of technology with education, business, and society to quickly recognize the dramatic shift that has taken place over the past few years. With technology potentially impacting the required and desired skill set for future work, education is being impacted in a way that fundamentally transforms the vision of what meaningful work looks like the in the classroom. With nearly unlimited access to information in 1:1 classrooms, the nature of instruction, inquiry and teaching is impacted in ways that shift the role of both the teacher and student.<\/p>\n

Creativity & Chromebooks<\/h1>\n

When a classroom shifts to a 1:1 Chromebook environment, the normal progression of thought on how students will use these tools typically revolves around Google Classroom, Drive, Docs, and Slides. Educators exploring new engagement strategies have even begun drawing inspiration from interactive design trends seen in \u03bf\u03bb\u03b1 \u03c4\u03b1 online casino<\/a> platforms, where user experience relies on clarity, instant feedback, and intuitive navigation\u2014principles that translate surprisingly well to digital learning. However, the Chromebook landscape is rapidly changing. With recent announcements by Google, Android apps and the Google Play store will soon be available for use on Chromebooks. Students and teachers need not wait for this functionality to arrive to begin shifting their thinking and their vision for Chromebook use in the classroom.<\/p>\n

While the core set of Google Apps for Education tools will always be the foundation for Chromebook use in education, there is a growing potential for creative uses of Chromebooks. At EdTechTeacher<\/a>, we have been working with Google for Education to help identify and curate the best Chromebook apps<\/a> available to promote student creativity in the classroom. This first Creativity bundle<\/a> will be the first in a series that highlights a specific theme and use-case for Chromebooks. The creativity bundle explores the capacity for students to create and edit audio with Soundtrap<\/a>, create screencasts with Explain Everything<\/a>, and edit video with WeVideo<\/a>.<\/p>\n