Skip to main content
Add as a preferred source on Google


Adobe Foundation To Launch Technology Programs for Students, Teachers

##AUTHORSPLIT##<--->

The Adobe Foundation is expanding its Adobe Youth Voices program into new areas in 2009. These include new initiatives to train teachers and students on the use of technologies, as well as a partnership with the Ad Council to collaborate on a dropout prevention campaign called "Boost."

Adobe Youth Voices is a program aimed at giving disadvantaged youths an opportunity to learn and use multimedia tools to get them involved in digital media arts: music, Web design, video, and other forms of expression.

The latest initiatives are part of a larger plan for Adobe Youth Voices to reach about 5,000 more educators and 150,000 more students by 2011, according to information provided to us by the Adobe Foundation.

They include, among other things, a partnership with the Ad Council that will call on high school students in 2009 to create original videos on the subject of dropout prevention, supporting the Ad Council's Boost campaign. Videos will be two to five minutes in length, and completed projects will be showcased on various sites, including social networking sites, the Boost campaign site, and the Adobe Youth Voices Youth Work Gallery.

Separately, Adobe Youth Voices is also partnering with Chicago Public Schools' Technology Academies and other schools in the CPS system in an effort to bring technology-based teaching and learning to under-served neighborhoods in Chicago. According to the Adobe Foundation, as part of the program, "60 teachers within the Chicago Public Schools will be trained and working with their students with digital media and inquiry based learning," and "1,600 students from across Chicago will be working with digital media."

Further information about the Adobe Youth Voices program can be found here.

About the Author

David Nagel is the former editorial director of 1105 Media's Education Group and editor-in-chief of THE Journal, STEAM Universe, and Spaces4Learning. A 30-year publishing veteran, Nagel has led or contributed to dozens of technology, art, marketing, media, and business publications.

He can be reached at [email protected]. You can also connect with him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidrnagel/ .


Featured

  • digital brain integrating legal regulation and security interface

    Survey: Agentic AI Moves from Pilot Phase to Production, Bringing Governance to the Forefront

    A new report from Caylent, an AI-focused Amazon Web Services Premier Tier Services Partner, found that enterprises are already moving agentic AI beyond pilots and into production environments. At the same time, organizations are putting strict conditions around autonomy, making governance and control the next major challenge for enterprise AI adoption.

  • Digital document and folder warning alert with error

    When Cyber Attacks Disrupt Learning, Recovery Matters More than Ever

    As schools become more dependent on digital platforms for instruction, grading, student services, and family communication, resilience depends not only on preventing attacks, but on how quickly leaders can restore trusted data, recover essential services, and keep disruptions from cascading across the school community.

  • Blurred silhouettes of business people in a modern office with a glowing blue network overlay

    Open Secure AI Alliance Moving Under Linux Foundation

    Governance of the Open Secure AI Alliance has moved to the Linux Foundation, giving the initiative what the organizations describe as a neutral home for developing open source tools, shared standards and defensive practices. The Alliance was launched by NVIDIA in July to develop open security technologies for AI systems and agents.

  • Abstract digital hacker man with a laptop

    Cyber Criminals Choosing Shared Prompts, Fraud Kits Over Custom Malicious AI Models

    Increasingly, cyber criminals are sharing AI prompts, jailbreak techniques, and access to existing models that can be incorporated into fraud and phishing operations, according the latest AI Threat Report from Flashpoint.