This week, I enjoyed designing the poster on Canva. It was both interesting, engaging, and made me think more creatively, too. I think that using tools like Canva can be a great way to help engage students, both by having them use Canva, and also using Canva in your own teaching. If students can use something like Canva to talk about what they learned, maybe like a presentation poster, they can better visualize their learning and use another part of their brain instead of just listening and writing, lecture style. Students have a lot of different learning styles, so what might work for one student, may not work as well for another. For example, physical movement can be really helpful for students who start to lose focus looking at slide after slide. On the other hand, lecture-style might work well for students who memorize things well. Since students learn so differently, itโ€™s important to incorporate different ways to engage them, like using Canva for assignments.

Canva can also be a great tool to use for teachers because it can help students to stay more engaged by having a more interesting visual to look at. I thought about the PowerPoint slide and how too much information can be just overwhelming and distracting, and how using the proper background and visuals can help engage students and better their learning. For example, instead of just talking about what something looked like, using it in a poster to facilitate engagement and something for the eyes to look at, visualize, and memorize could be really helpful for a lot of students who learn by seeing things rather than just hearing about them.

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