For the love of graphic design, please stop having kids cut and paste essays onto poster board and call it a “project.”

At my school, too often teachers announce that students are going to be sharing their “projects” with other classes. We are invited to their class museum and inevitably, it is a room full of middle schoolers who have basically written essays and the glued them onto a piece of poster board along with a couple of photos.

Posters and museum infographics are such a rich and interesting field of communications, but it is almost always clear to me that the poster part of these projects is a complete after thought.

It ultimately feels like a waste of resources to used poster board and three panel displays if graphic design is not a significant part of the actual lesson.

Submitted February 22, 2024 at 09:56AM by doctorboredom https://ift.tt/yKEcZbQ