In the ever-evolving landscape of education, the integration of technology has become paramount. Recognizing this, Canva, the renowned graphic design platform, has taken a monumental step in redefining the future of learning. Their latest product launch introduces a wide array of innovative tools that transform Canva for Education into an all-encompassing classroom solution, reshaping the way educators and students engage with content.
Empowering Education for All
Four years ago, Canva introduced Canva for Education with a clear vision in mind: to provide students and teachers with accessible technology that enhances creativity through digital and design literacy. Importantly, they made this powerful tool available to K-12 schools across the globe for free. Today, more than 50 million students and teachers use Canva to bring their ideas to life, and this significant launch takes their commitment to education to new heights.
A Comprehensive Teaching and Learning Platform
With this new update, Canva for Education becomes a comprehensive teaching and learning platform suitable for all types of classrooms. It boasts an extensive library of over 5,000 customizable classroom resources. These resources include ready-to-teach curriculum lessons developed in collaboration with experts from renowned institutions like NASA and The New York Times. They cover a wide range of subjects and are designed to simplify the teaching process for educators.
Preparing Educators with AI for Back to School and Beyond
As educators gear up for the new school year, Canva’s AI-powered tools are poised to transform the teaching landscape. Canva’s AI offerings, including Magic Write, provide teachers with valuable time-saving solutions, allowing them to focus on what truly matters—delivering engaging and inclusive educational experiences.
Canva’s commitment to providing these AI tools for free through Canva for Education demonstrates their dedication to supporting educators and streamlining tasks, inspiring creativity in the classroom, and allowing teachers to allocate more time to meaningful learning. Canva believes in the transformative power of AI in education and is excited to be part of the back-to-school journey for educators and students worldwide.
Classroom Magic: AI Tools for Enhanced Learning
One of the most exciting additions to Canva for Education is “Classroom Magic,” a suite of AI tools designed to empower both teachers and students. Artificial intelligence has opened up endless possibilities in education, allowing educators to streamline tasks, inspire creativity, and create an engaging learning environment. According to Canva’s recent AI in Education survey, over three-quarters of teachers are eager to incorporate AI into their classrooms. However, a staggering 93% of them admit they don’t know where to begin. Canva has made it their mission to bridge this knowledge gap.
Earlier this year, Canva introduced AI technology for teachers with tools like “Magic Write,” designed to streamline tasks, inspire creativity, and save time. With this new launch, Canva is taking it a step further with the introduction of a suite of new AI tools designed with privacy, trust, and safety at the forefront. These tools are available to both students and teachers, making Canva for Education one of the world’s first learning platforms to introduce artificial intelligence for students. While students are opted out by default, district administrators will have the option to enable these new products, and teachers will have automatic access.
Meet the Magic Tools
Let’s delve into these remarkable AI tools that promise to revolutionize the learning experience:
Magic Write: This AI-powered assistant helps free up time for educators’ most critical work. With a simple prompt, it can generate a first draft, reword complex content to suit different learning styles, or summarize text to enhance comprehension. This tool can also adapt content to different reading levels, making the learning process more personalized. For districts that choose to enable Magic Write at a student level, students can get a head-start on writing tasks, expand on ideas, rewrite content to suit different formats, and develop their comprehension skills through intentionally crafted prompts.
Magic Animate: Transforming classroom materials into engaging and captivating videos and presentations has never been easier. Magic Animate automatically animates designs and enhances entire pages with just one click. This tool creates eye-catching transitions that bring work to life instantly. It empowers students to create their animations, making assignments more engaging and interactive.
Magic Grab: This tool simplifies the process of redesigning teaching materials and class projects. Users can easily select the subject of an image to edit, reposition, or resize it. Additionally, Magic Grab enables users to extract and modify text from photos of documents or screenshots with its “Grab Text” feature. This is ideal for grabbing text from a photo of a whiteboard or a paper-based resource, saving valuable time that would otherwise be spent rewriting content manually.
Magic Switch: Save time and effort with Magic Switch, which allows users to reformat teaching materials, class projects, and assignments in an instant. Users can transform the content of presentations into summarized documents or turn a whiteboard filled with ideas into a fully-fledged presentation. With Magic Switch in your toolkit, you can eliminate time-consuming and mundane tasks, leaving more time for teaching and learning.
Translate: Canva understands the importance of diversity and inclusion in education. With a single click, users can translate teaching materials into more than 100 different languages. This feature is invaluable for both learning and teaching new languages.
Alt Text Suggestions: Ensuring accessibility for all learners is a top priority in modern education. Alt Text Suggestions eliminate the guesswork by instantly generating captions and tags for images and videos. This ensures that every design is accessible to every learner’s unique needs.
Canva Shield: Prioritizing AI Safety in Education
Canva’s commitment to ensuring a safe, private, and secure tool for the classroom is unwavering. As a part of their mission to equip every classroom with the best technology for unlocking creativity, they are providing each school district with the option to choose when or if to enable these products for their students.
Canva recognizes that it is often the first interaction teachers have with AI technology, and they take this responsibility very seriously. The company has made significant investments in technology to ensure that this new suite of tools is safe and appropriate for the classroom. “Canva Shield” introduces a range of stringent safety measures to provide students and teachers with peace of mind when using AI in the classroom. These measures include robust trust and safety features, automatic content moderation, and stringent student and teacher data protection. Additionally, Canva is rolling out a number of additional classroom-specific safety measures, including advanced educator controls, automatic reviews of input prompts to prevent the creation of inappropriate content, a list of blocked terms to ensure content is safe for the classroom, and the ability to report and block potentially unwanted terms or content.
Introducing Canva’s Lesson Builder
With the launch of Canva’s Lesson Builder, educators can seamlessly plan, build, and teach fully sequenced lessons without ever leaving the platform. This tool allows teachers to create beautifully designed lessons that incorporate various content types, including presentations, videos, whiteboards, and worksheets. Whether starting from scratch or importing existing files, content can be organized into simple and sequenced lessons for a seamless teaching experience. These lessons can be completed together in class or shared with students for independent work. Furthermore, educators can revamp their existing teaching materials by uploading files and arranging them into a customized lesson plan without leaving Canva.
New Ready-to-Teach, Curriculum-Supported Lessons
Canva understands the time and effort that educators put into lesson planning. To make this process easier, they have introduced over 100 ready-to-teach curriculum-supported lessons for K-8 subjects like Math, Science, English, ELA, and Art. These meticulously designed materials are not only high in quality but also visually appealing, promoting creativity and active participation to keep students engaged. Furthermore, educators have the flexibility to modify the content, pace, and activities to accommodate different learning styles, abilities, and interests. This extensive library of curriculum-supported lessons empowers teachers to focus on what they do best: inspiring and educating the next generation.
Embracing AI in Education: A Survey of Educators
The world of education is evolving rapidly, and Canva’s recent survey of 1,000 teachers has revealed that educators are eagerly embracing the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in the modern classroom. The study uncovered a compelling paradox: while 78% of teachers express a keen interest in incorporating AI into their teaching methods, 93% admit to not knowing where to start with these tools. This signifies the strong enthusiasm among educators to explore AI’s potential, along with the need for additional support to bridge the knowledge gap.
Canva is taking steps to address this by launching a range of new AI features for both students and teachers, focusing on simplicity, accessibility, and safety. These tools aim to serve as a perfect starting point for educators to explore AI’s impact on learning and teaching, ultimately enhancing classroom productivity, creativity, and reducing workloads. The study also highlights that AI is sparking innovative ideas, fostering creativity, and simplifying educators’ lives by streamlining administrative tasks. Moreover, teachers are optimistic about AI’s potential to support students with different learning needs, such as language learning and universal accessibility. Canva’s commitment to providing these AI tools for free through Canva for Education underscores its dedication to empowering educators and shaping the future of learning.
Shaping the Future of Education Together
As Canva celebrates its remarkable journey in education, with more than 50 million students and teachers already benefiting from the power of visual communication, they are fully committed to pushing the boundaries of what is possible. This remarkable launch is a testament to their dedication to ensuring that every student and teacher has access to the best tools to foster creativity and innovation. With Canva’s new AI tools, enhanced accessibility features, and comprehensive teaching resources, the future of education is looking brighter than ever. We eagerly anticipate the remarkable achievements that educators and students will unlock with these new, cutting-edge capabilities.
