Share your examples of Lucid in the classroom

I’m not sure if everyone knows about this, but you can turn off Infinite canvas.  I teach K-5 and sometimes (especially on iPads), my students get ‘lost’ in a document (...or play around outside of the activity...call it what you like 😜 ).  To minimize this, I turned off Infinite canvas on my template and shared it with my students using a Force Copy template link.  

Here’s one of my templates that I made and then how to get to the Board setting.

​@Kathy R combining turned off Infinite canvas with our Force-copy links functionality is such a great idea for use cases like yours! Thank you for sharing! 😃

I wanted to share a recent success I had with a lesson that combined computer science and literacy standards. I was tasked with supporting students in identifying the central idea of a text while also incorporating test prep strategies. Rather than printing out the usual stacks of articles and worksheets, I decided to use Lucid interactive activities to keep the lesson digital and engaging.

I built a template based on the concept of decomposition. I broke a complex article into smaller segments and had the students treat the text like code. They had to decompose the information into specific buckets to find the who, what, when, where, and why. We talked about this as an algorithm for finding the central idea.

When we transitioned into nonfiction texts like an article on the immune system, the students realized their usual algorithm had a bug because there was no person to put in the who bucket. We discussed how to patch the algorithm by focusing on the what and the why instead. This kept the students completely focused on the logic of the text.

The best part was the level of engagement. Because they were busy dragging segments of text to form their central idea statements, the students did not even realize they were doing intensive test prep.