UEN Teacher Tips

The Lucid integration in Canvas offers teachers a powerful tool to help students visually model their thinking. By creating diagrams, flowcharts, mind maps and other visual representations, students can make their abstract ideas more tangible and organize their thoughts more clearly. This approach promotes metacognition, enabling students to reflect on their own learning processes. Visual modeling with Lucid helps students break down complex concepts, identify patterns and develop deeper conceptual understanding. This powerful cognitive development tool fosters more meaningful, engaged learning in the classroom.  

The best part is that all this visualization can now occur through Lucid in Canvas. 

Here are a few ideas for how you might use Lucid to get your students visualizing and conceptualizing:

• Create concept maps: Encourage students to build concept maps to show the relationships between ideas, making complex topics easier to grasp.

• Model mathematical reasoning: Guide students in using Lucid to create visual models of mathematical problems, like number lines, geometric diagrams or problem-solving processes, to improve reasoning and understanding.

• Enhance sensemaking in science: Use Lucid to help students visually represent scientific concepts and processes, allowing them to synthesize information, draw conclusions and make connections between ideas, ultimately improving their understanding.