Episode 18: Tech skills teens need before they graduate
1. Computer basics
- Saving / Copying / Uploading files
- How to take a screenshot
- Typing skills
- Troubleshooting
2. Familiarity with different types of software
- Slideshow (Google Slides, Prezi)
- Documents (Google Docs, Word)
- Spreadsheets (Google Sheets / Excel)
- Video creation (iMovie, Windows Moviemaker, screencasting software)
- Graphic creation (Canva / Adobe Spark)
3. Online etiquette
- Emails
- Social media
4. Online research skills
- Identifying credible sources
- How to use Google Scholar
- How to create bibliographies
5. Basic coding
- STEM fields will require it
- Many others will use it for manipulating data etc.
How do you do this?
- Start young and incorporate tech into your daily homeschool life
- Keep listening to this podcast and play earlier episodes that help you do this
- If your kids are already in high school and have some catching up to do, our sponsor, FundaFunda Academy has some classes to help you. Take a look at Computer Applications which covers everything mentioned above except programming (their 5-week or full semester Python class will cover that)
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