Metro Manila (CNN Philippines January 27) — The Department of Education has provided all public schools in the country with yearly access to Adobe Creative Cloud to improve the digital literacy of teachers and students.
Adobe Creative Cloud is a collection of Adobe desktop software and mobile applications for photography, video, and design to name a few. It can be accessed through an Adobe Federated ID linked with the respective school email address, which was made available on Jan. 15.
In a statement, the DepEd said its Office of the Undersecretary for Administration, through the Information and Communications Technology Service, partnered with Adobe to procure around 108,000 licenses. It also partnered with Creative Nation Academy to share its knowledge and expertise on the use of such tools.
“DepEd must provide these licenses to our public schools because we are now in the creative development era. Anyone can be a content creator due to the simplification and adaptability of existing mobile devices where learning and design can blend as one,” Education Undersecretary Alain Del Pascua said.
Pascua added that DepEd is preparing students “to be globally inclined and encouraging them to use industry-standard software to give them greater opportunities of landing a job.”
For Mark Sy, ICTS-Educational Technology Unit head, it is important to open gateways for educators as they are molding the learners. He also said desktop software and mobile applications can help generate competitive graduates “who will help the Philippines in [raising] global digital skills standards that contribute to nation-building.”
The DepEd earlier recommended expanding the implementation of limited in-person classes by February, which will only include areas under lower alert levels. President Rodrigo Duterte has no objection to such move.
