Canva Magic Design

Are you stuck staring at a blank canvas?  

Meet Magic Design, a powerful tool within Canva Magic Studio.  Magic Design harnesses the power of AI to turn your ideas into reality in an instant.  Type your idea or vision in a few words, or upload your own media to describe what you envision and Magic Design will generate a collection or custom template just for you – an educational presentation, educational video, classroom poster, Google Classroom Header, worksheet or even lesson plans – in seconds. 

No design experience required – Magic Design helps you create professional-looking content that will grab attention!

Canva Magic Studio

Are you ready to weave AI into your Canva projects? Power up your design toolkit with the top AI-powered design and productivity tools with Canva Magic Studio! This graphic design platform empowers users of all skill levels to create stunning visuals. Canva provides a vast library of templates, images, and fonts, but Magic Studio takes it a step further. Magic Studio uses artificial intelligence to generate unique content, suggest text variations, and remove backgrounds from images – all within the familiar Canva interface.

Did you already know that YCS and LCS have secured an educational account for Canva, accessible through Clever? This account unlocks premium features and content, making it the perfect tool for presentations, reports, and all your creative projects! Click on the icon in Clever to check it out.

Brisk Teaching

Have you been feeling overwhelmed by lesson planning and grading?

Brisk Teaching can be your new teaching companion! This Chrome extension utilizes artificial intelligence to streamline your workflow. Brisk AI integrates seamlessly with Google Workspace, allowing you to create quizzes, interventions, adjust content reading level, and even assess student writing – all without ever leaving your workspace. Breathe a sigh of relief and let Brisk AI help you get back to what matters most: teaching!

Magic Student AI

Are you struggling to help your students navigate the exciting world of AI? Magic Student AI is here to help!

MagicSchool for Students is an educational AI platform educational platform designed to build AI literacy for students. It not only teaches students to use AI responsibly, it also unlocks learning opportunities not possible without generative AI.

It's not magic, but it sure feels like it!

Bloom's Taxonomy Revisited

Almost everyone who has taken a course in education has heard of Bloom's Taxonomy.  It was created  to provide a common language for teachers to discuss learning and assessment methods. Bloom's Taxonomy is an ordering of an individuals' cognitive skills in order to help students and teachers in the classroom.  The levels move from remember being the lowest level to creating being the highest level.  The levels in Bloom's Taxonomy in order from lowest to highest are: remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate and create.

In our new world, with generative AI everywhere, Bloom's Taxonomy has been revisited by Oregon State University, to include information for each level pertaining to AI capabilities and distinctive human skills.  Review the information yourself in the link below.

Bloom's Taxonomy Revisited

A Guide for Elementary Teachers

The last Guide in the ISTE series is Hands-On Project Guides for use in the classroom, A Guide for Elementary Teachers.

You can find this Guide on the ISTE website or by following this link: https://bit.ly/3xRLPGO.

The introduction and the appendices contain a little bit of information about AI and how to use the Guide.  The Guide itself contains 4 different projects that you can use with students in Secondary classes, grades K-5, to help guide their thinking about AI.  

A Guide for Secondary Teachers

As previously mentioned, ISTE offers a series of Hands-On Project Guides for use in the classroom.  This week I want to highlight A Guide for Secondary Teachers.

You can find this Guide on the ISTE website or by following this link: https://bit.ly/44ngeZJ.

The introduction and the appendices contain a little bit of information about AI and how to use the Guide.  The Guide itself contains 4 different projects that you can use with students in Secondary classes, grades 6–12, to help guide their thinking about AI.