In the 21st century education era, Critical thinking skills and creativity are increasingly important for students. Answer these needs, Peak of the XI Archipelago Educators Meeting presenting Inspirational talkshow entitled “Empower creativity and critical thinking with canva”, which took place at the BLOC post, Central Jakarta, Saturday (2/10).
This event presents experienced speakers such as Pipit Indrawati, Canva for Education Lead for Indonesia and Southeast Asia; Jihan Aryani, Country Community Manager Canva Indonesia; Marsaria Primadonna, Head of Kampus Guru Cikal; As well as Syerly Manarata, Teacher Ambassador Canva. They discuss the role of Canva as an educational tool that encourages students to think critically and express ideas visually.
Canva continues to be committed to supporting teachers
Jihan Aryani emphasized Canva's commitment to expand access to educational tools that enrich learning experiences. “We believe that creativity is an important skill, And we are committed to offering tools supported by AI and a large template library to support teachers in encouraging creativity and critical thinking in the classroom,” he said.
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Since the year 2022, Canva has partnered with the Ministry of Elementary and Secondary Education, allows free access to canva for education for teachers and students through Learning account.id. In the year 2023, more than 2,3 Million Teachers and Students Using Canva with Learning Account.id, produce more than 45 million designs.
"Canva's partnership with the Ministry of Elementary and Secondary Education makes it easy for teachers to access the platform - they can directly enter with a learning account.. We are also happy to be able to support educators by providing training that helps them maximize Canva for more interesting learning experiences in the classroom,"Pipit said.
Recently, Canva launched an independent training at Independent platform teaches titled Creative and innovative learning with learning accounts.id [Partnership with canva for education]. This independent training is designed to guide teachers, including those who just started using canva, for learning independently.
"The Mandiri Canva training includes inspirational teaching videos from Canva Ambassador teachers. For example, One video highlighting learning differentiated Mathematics subjects using Canva, for the topic of data presentation,”Added. "We hope that through this independent training, Teachers are inspired to create meaningful learning experiences in class using Canva. ”
On the same occasion, chairman of the Cikal Teachers Campus (kg bw) claimed to have long used Canva to support the learning process in its class, even before there was a partnership as explained by Pipit.
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"I have forgotten how initially I met Canva and could access the Canva feature for education, that is definitely a long time before Canva works with the ministry (Primary and secondary education) And that makes learning more creative,” he said.
Canva technology that is very helpful to teachers
According to Pima, Marsaria's nickname, Canva facilitates her job as a teacher. Like for example when creating learning media, He often uses Canva to make the designs that students like.
Some books published by KGC also use Canva to design the cover to set the layout of each page. Thus, Canva is a very helpful tool for teachers, which is often involved in the process of making and publishing books.
However, He reminded teachers to be able to use Canva wisely. "Canva is a technology that really helps us but we must use it wisely. We as teachers still have a major role in designing meaningful learning,” he concluded.
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Through this talkshow, educators are expected to be more motivated to integrate canva in learning. Canva is committed to supporting Indonesian education through various programs that help teachers improve their skills in training students' creativity and critical thinking.
Writer: Siti Fatonah
Editor: Yosi
