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Content Creators

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Design, Refine and Share Like a Pro

Content Creators helps learners see themselves as real designers, not just students following steps. Working through 12 one-hour lessons, they first define a company and audience, then create mood boards, simple logos and social media-style graphics. Using Adobe Express and professional-grade drawing tablets, they learn to apply design thinking to create, revise and improve their work. Clear scaffolding and built-in extensions make it easy for instructors to lead, whether in a classroom, after-school club or summer camp. The result is a reusable STEAM experience that builds creativity, confidence with professional tools and a small portfolio of finished visual projects.

Grades: 6–12
Students: Up to 30
Contact Hours: 12+

Subject Targets:

Technology, Art/STEAM, English Language Arts Connections

Reusability and Expansion:

Refill Kit Available: This product offers affordable refill kits. See the materials tab for details.

Materials

Complete Program Includes:

Content Creators comes with all the supplies needed for 30 students to complete 12 one-hour lessons:

Instructor Guide: 1
Printed Student Notebooks: 31
Sets of Die Cut Shapes: 15
Drawing Tablets: 15
Mice: 30
Pencil Sharpeners: 6
Pencils: 36
Rolls of Masking Tape: 5
Vinyl Mats: 15
Access to the Digital Resource Portal

Curriculum Print & Digital Includes:

Instructor Guide: 1
Printed Student Notebooks: 31
Access to the Digital Resource Portal

Refill Kit Available:

Bringing Content Creators to your next class? This refill kit gets them ready to brainstorm, sketch and create!

Pencils: 36
Printed Student Notebooks: 31

Curriculum Topics

Each Activity Includes:

Schedule
Materials List
Step-By-Step Activity Instructions
Topic Background & Vocabulary
Optional Extension Activities

Curriculum Topics:

Seeing Like a Designer: Guiding Attention
Visual Flow: Using Lines and Negative Space to Guide the Eye
Hierarchy: What Comes First, Next and Last
Designing for a Company: Industry & Target Audience
Creating a Mood Board: Visualizing Brand Personality
Designing a Brand Logo: From Shapes to Symbols
Typography & Brand Voice: Choosing Fonts on Purpose
Color Theory: Mood, Contrast and Brand Color Exploration
Brand Color Palette
Layout: Designing the First Feed Post
Story Graphic: Expressing Brand Personality
Designer Critique & Final Refinement

Settings & Tech Requirements

Recommended Settings:

Summer Camps
Classrooms
Out-of-School Time Programs
Libraries & Makerspaces

Tech Requirements:

1 device per student (Internet-connected laptops or Chromebooks)

Standards & Alignment

Habits of Mind:

16 thinking habits developed by Art Costa and Bena Kallick to empower students to succeed in a 21st-century learning environment.

Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations
Creating, Imagining, and Innovating
Persisting
Responding with Wonder and Awe
Thinking Flexibly

21st Century Skills:

A set of widely applicable abilities essential for success in the information age.

Communication
Creativity

Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.1: Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.2: Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.3: Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.4: Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.5: Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.6: Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9-10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

International Society for Technology in Education:

1.1.d. understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies and are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies.
1.4.c. develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process.
1.4.d: exhibit a tolerance for ambiguity, perseverance and the capacity to work with open-ended problems.
1.6.c: use digital tools to visually communicate complex ideas to others.
1.6.d: publish or present content that customizes the message and medium for their intended audiences.
1.7.c: contribute constructively to project teams, assuming various roles and responsibilities to work effectively toward a common goal.

National Core Arts Standards:

MA:Cr Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
MA:Cr Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
MA:Cr Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.
MA:Cr Enduring Understanding 1: Media arts ideas, works, and processes are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, and by experiences, both within and outside of the arts.
MA:Cr Enduring Understanding 2: Media artists plan, organize, and develop creative ideas, plans, and models into process structures that can effectively realize the artistic idea.
MA:Cr Enduring Understanding 3: The forming, integration, and refinement of aesthetic components, principles, and processes creates purpose, meaning, and artistic quality in media artworks.
MA:Cr Enduring Understanding 4: Media artists integrate various forms and contents to develop complex, unified artworks.
MA:Cr1.1.6: Formulate variations of goals and solutions for media artworks by practicing chosen creative processes, such as sketching, improvising and brainstorming.
MA:Cr1.1.6: Formulate variations of goals and solutions for media artworks by practicing chosen creative processes, such as sketching, improvising and brainstorming.
MA:Cr2.1.7: Design, propose, and evaluate artistic ideas, plans, prototypes, and production processes for media arts productions, considering expressive intent and resources.
MA:Cr2.1.I: Apply aesthetic criteria in developing, proposing, and refining artistic ideas, plans, prototypes, and production processes for media arts productions, considering original inspirations, goals, and presentation context.
MA:Cr3.1.6: a.) Experiment with multiple approaches to produce content and components for determined purpose and meaning in media arts productions, utilizing a range of associated principles, such as point of view and perspective. b.) Appraise how elements and components can be altered for intentional effects and audience, and refine media artworks to reflect purpose and audience.
MA:Cr3.1.6b: Appraise how elements and components can be altered for intentional effects and audience, and refine media artworks to reflect purpose and audience.
MA:Pr Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
MA:Pr Enduring Understanding 6: Media artists purposefully present, share, and distribute media artworks for various contexts.
MA:Pr4.1. HS.I: Integrate various arts, media arts forms, and content into unified media arts productions, considering the reaction and interaction of the audience, such as experiential design.
MA:Pr4.1.I: Integrate various arts, media arts forms, and content into unified media arts productions, considering the reaction and interaction of the audience, such as experiential design.
MA:Pr6.1.I.b: Evaluate and implement improvements in presenting media artworks, considering personal and local impacts, such as the benefits for self and others.
MA:Re Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
MA:Re Enduring Understanding 9: Skillful evaluation and critique are critical components of experiencing, appreciating, and producing media artworks.
MA:Re9.1.HS.I.a: Evaluate media art works and production processes at decisive stages, using identified criteria, and considering context and artistic goals.

About the Author

Tyler Downey:

Tyler Downey joined PCS in the Spring of 2018, bringing a BA in Philosophy and an MA in Education to his position as a STEM Education Specialist. Devoting himself to education for the last 20 years, Tyler has worked with students as an elementary classroom teacher, full-time gifted education instructor, librarian and he has even taught computer and information technology classes, as well as coding and hands-on science courses, in summer, after school and club classroom settings.

Throughout his career, Tyler has passionately devoted himself to promoting critical thinking and a love for learning. He is a lifelong learner who continually seeks to expand his knowledge in both his professional and personal life.

Emi Ryan:

Emi is the Art Director at PCS Edventures. A native of Poland, Emi has over 25 years of graphic design experience. She has a Bachelor’s in Printing and Book Design from a Technical University in Warsaw, Poland. Emilia spent her early professional years as the Head of Production for a Polish/American joint venture that created and distributed the Yellow Pages across Poland. In addition to working as a graphic designer, Emi is an experienced artist and elementary art educator. In her spare time, she enjoys painting, botanical

drawing, learning digital illustration, yoga, swimming, hiking and traveling with her husband and two daughters.

Emi was an invaluable contributor to developing Content Creators. Her expertise in graphic design informed the core content of each day’s lessons, and her artistic creativity and professional skills can be seen everywhere, from the daily slides to the student sketchbooks. Content Creators simply couldn’t have been done without her.

Special Thanks:

Many thanks go out to Sage International School of Middleton educator Georgia Thies and their class of 9th through 11th-grade students who participated in our pilot of this program. Their enthusiasm, willingness to give honest feedback and dedication to helping develop the best possible student experience made a huge difference in refining activities and developing strategies that hit our goal of creating a curriculum that is engaging and exciting while also teaching real-world skills fundamental to the profession of graphic design.

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