For literacy week students participated in a 3-Panel Comic Design Sprint, exploring how stories can communicate surprise, change, or a shift in thinking —all within just three panels.

Students began by planning a short narrative with a clear beginning, middle, and end, focusing on how a moment of surprise or transformation could be shown visually with minimal text. Once their stories were planned, students used Midjourney as a creative tool to help visualize their ideas. They carefully crafted prompts, refined details, and made design decisions to ensure the images matched their intended story.

Students then sequenced and animated their three panels, thinking intentionally about timing, transitions, and movement to enhance the emotional impact of the story.

This project connected learning across multiple subject areas:

• Language Arts: Students practiced concise storytelling, sequencing, and visual narrative structure, learning how meaning can be communicated through images, pacing, and limited dialogue or captions.

• Arts Education: Students explored composition, expression, symbolism, and how visual elements such as colour, framing, and contrast contribute to mood and meaning.

• ADST (Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies): Students applied the design process—planning, creating, testing, and refining—while learning how to use AI tools responsibly. They focused on prompt design, iteration, and critical decision-making rather than accepting first results.

Each student created a unique comic and animation, reflecting their own ideas, storytelling choices, and design thinking. Because each project is highly individual, families please visit your child’s Spaces account to view their full comic, animation, and reflection. Only a few comics and the animations have been shared here to showcase the range of approaches and creativity.

This project highlighted how technology—including AI—can be used as a creative partner, guided by human intention, imagination, and ethical decision-making.