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By Canva Education Team
Ideas for using AI to transform your classroom
How can AI help?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can seem a bit overwhelming at first, but it's here to make your life easier. Just imagine having a digital teaching assistant at your fingertips! It's a game-changer, helping you whip up lesson plans, worksheets, and tailor your resources to fit every learning style in your classroom.
With Canva's new Magic Suite of tools, you won't ever have to begin from blank. It's all about giving you more time doing what you love most - teaching and inspiring your students.
Resources for elementary teachers
Idea 1
Create unique visual
story starters
We know the importance of creative writing time in the classroom, which is why you’ll love Magic Media.
Forget scouring the internet for hours, looking for the perfect picture prompt to kickstart your students’ writing. Instead, generate your unique image with Magic Media. Whether it’s ‘rainbow kangaroos sipping tea’ or ‘meerkats eating hot dogs,’ Magic Media makes anything possible.
Can’t think of the perfect prompt? Use our handy guide as a starting point. Use these prompts to get your students’ writing juices flowing.
- Teacher Tip: Display the image to your class and collectively brainstorm who the characters could be. Scaffold your students to success by creating a visual word wall that they can use when writing their story
Idea 2
Generate fun themed brain breaks
Brain breaks are essential to help students maintain their focus and produce their best work. While we all love a little dance break, we also know the importance of keeping students on track and thinking about the subject. That’s where Magic Write comes in, helping you to generate endless ideas for brain breaks that will keep your students engaged, thinking about the topic, and having fun.
Use the Magic Write tool with the prompt “generate a list of X brain breaks on [subject/topic] for [grade] students”. You’ll be blown away by the easy-to-follow suggested list that you can implement instantly.
- Teacher Tip: Try linking brain breaks to a mentor text you’re using in the classroom - the possibilities are endless with magic write. Try it for yourself below, where we’ve provided a few examples to get you started.
Idea 3
Prioritise
accessibility for all
Embrace your classroom’s vibrant diversity with Magic Translate, a feature that ensures no student feels left out. Easily convert your class materials into your students’ respective home languages to embrace and celebrate the various languages your students speak.
Elevate your school newsletters with Magic Translate, too, enabling access to all by instantaneously translating your content into over 100 languages. Strengthening your school community while championing inclusivity? Sounds like a win to us.
- Teacher Tip: Think bigger than just classwork. With Magic Translate, you can translate your class newsletter, any communication to parents, and even homework!
Resources for Middle and High School Teachers
Idea 1
Create a pop
quiz instantly
We know how important it is to understand your class’s prior knowledge before starting a new topic, so you’ll love using Magic Write to generate a diagnostic assessment instantly. This nifty feature takes the guesswork out of preparation.
Simply enter your prompt (e.g., generate a 10-question quiz on {subject/topic] for {grade/year] students to identify their prior knowledge] and let Canva do the hard work.
- Teacher Tip: Copy and paste your pop quiz into Magic Design presentation and you’ll have a beautifully presented quiz ready to go, instantly.
Idea 2
Transform
resources for all
Not all learners are the same, which means resources shouldn’t be a ‘one size fits all’ approach. With Magic Switch, you can take any piece of content and transform it into a more accessible format for your students. Try switching large textbook passages to summaries, paragraphs to poems, and ideas to presentations.
- Teacher Tip: Try magic switching a textbook passage to a script - not only will your students love reading it out loud, they’ll also have fun. Who doesn’t love a lil’ bit of main character energy?!
Idea 3
Level up your presentations
Presentations have become a daily necessity in the classroom, and you can use Canva to create stunning designs in seconds. If you want to nail the transitions and impress your class, try using Magic Animate to take student engagement to another level.
Simply select a slide, hit ‘Magic Animate,’ and let our AI magic do all the hard work for you. Your presentation will be animated in seconds, and you’ll be met with collective “ooooo!s” from your class!
- TeacherTip: if you want to take your presentation even further, why not try our handy cheatsheet of keyboard shortcuts while presenting? Think confetti canons, an inbuilt timer, and more!
Welcome to One Percent Better
We’re in constant awe of the incredible work teachers do, both in (and out) of the classroom. We’ve spoken to our teaching community, and we hear you: You need a one-stop shop for teaching resources on the latest trends and technology.
Introducing One Percent Better, the email newsletter written for teachers, by teachers. Each month, we’ll bring you a jam-packed newsletter with practical tips and projects that you can implement in less than 5 minutes. This month, we’re bringing you simple ideas for using AI to transform your classroom. They’re beginner-friendly and road-tested by real teachers.
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