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Canva Dream Lab

How could this tool be used to enhance teaching? Could it aid in personalized learning, automate administrative tasks, or provide new ways of engaging students?
How might this tool support different learning styles, assess student understanding, or encourage critical thinking and creativity?
What are some of the ethical or practical challenges of using this tool?

When it comes to A.I. I will be the first to admit that I usually avoid it like the plague, even if it can be really helpful haha. I think A.I could have a role in the classroom for a lot of things, even if I haven’t ventured that far into the usage of it yet. If used appropriately A.I tools could be a great tool for students to use in the classroom as well as teachers, but on the other hand if used innapropriately I could see it becoming an issue. Students could use it too much and really not put effort into anything they do, and the same with teachers. It is important that we love what we are doing, and while I understand that sometimes it is too much to plan, I think that using A.I. for literally every unit or lesson should not be allowed.

Anyway, I decided to try the A.I generator on Canva Dream Lab because I love canva and figured if it this generator was as good as the rest of the site I would be estatic. WELL the results were interesting to say the least haha. First, because I am doing Eric Carle’s Brown Bear, Brown Bear with my kinders I decided to put that into the generator. The results were pretty much what I expected!

Next, I wanted to try and generate an ASL sign for the alphabet. WELL, it was a fail haha. Half the hands are making the exact same sign.

It gave me better results when I typed in random things, instead of trying to get a useful thing I could use in class. I put in cats, plants and letters. I was expecting letters like A-Z not letter, letters hahahah

Lastly, because of agribition I decided to search cowboy, farm, and sky. At first, I was like daaaaang this is a nice picture. THEN I realized he was backwards on the horse?!!! SOOOO weird hahahah.

After using this tool, I couldn’t see myself using it at all for generating stuff for use in my classroom or any admin stuff, it just isn’t as realiable as I thought it would be. I could see myself using it for a fun activity though within the class. Students trying to generate the coolest picture using certain keywords. It could be used in a art class, or even a creative writing class where students have to generate the characters for their stories.

Overall I think this tool could be a fun tool to use, but I don’t think the technology is quite there yet for what they are wanting it to be used for. Canva is an awesome site that can generate alot of stuff, but this dream lab is not quite it.

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