Homeschooling with Technology

Tech skills teens need before they graduate

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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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