On Day 3 of Bett UK 2026, host Philippa Wraithmell speaks with Matt Jordan from Canva. Matt shares how Canva now supports over 120 million teachers and students every month. He explains how new AI tools like Magic Sort save teachers time, how Canva works with schools and governments, and why the platform’s 2026 focus is on becoming truly local and culturally relevant for learners worldwide.
Key Themes in This Episode
Canva’s growth in global education
Over 120 million monthly users
Magic Sort and AI time savings
Creativity and collaboration in learning
Working with ministries of education
Local culture and representation
Preparing students for future skills
Why Listen to This Episode?
This episode gives clear, practical insight into how a widely used EdTech platform supports real classroom needs. It shows how AI can save time without replacing teachers, how creativity improves engagement, and how technology can feel local and inclusive. Listeners will hear real examples from schools and systems using Canva at scale.
Who This Episode Is For?
This episode is for teachers, school leaders, and digital learning teams looking to save time and improve student engagement. It is also useful for EdTech professionals and policymakers interested in AI in education, national partnerships, and how creativity and communication skills can be developed across education systems.
Full Episode Description
In this short and focused episode from the final day of Bett UK 2026, Philippa Wraithmell sits down with Matt Jordan from Canva to explore how the platform is supporting education at global scale.
Matt begins by explaining his role across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. His work focuses on helping schools and education systems access Canva for Education and then supporting teachers to use it well in the classroom. He shares that Canva now supports over 120 million monthly active teachers and students, showing just how widely the platform is used.
A key part of the conversation looks at Canva’s AI features, especially Magic Sort. Matt explains how teachers can use Canva’s whiteboard to collect ideas during lessons or group work. With Magic Sort, those ideas can be organised instantly into clear topics and even turned into a document with just two clicks. This saves teachers time and makes classroom collaboration more useful and easier to follow up.
Matt also discusses how Canva helps teachers turn presentations into worksheets, activities, and resources quickly. Templates act as a starting point, while teachers still have full freedom to adapt content to their own students and subjects. Integration with tools like Google Classroom also makes it easy to share work, collaborate, and manage assignments.
Looking ahead to 2026, Matt explains Canva’s goal of becoming “truly local.” This goes beyond translation. Canva is working to ensure content reflects local cultures, festivals, people, and curriculum needs, so students feel represented and included in what they use.
The episode also shares inspiring real-world examples. In Thailand, a teacher used Canva to turn science lessons into a student-led TV show, with pupils livestreaming their learning and becoming teachers themselves.
Overall, the episode highlights how creativity, communication, and collaboration are essential skills for the future, and how Canva aims to support the move into the “imagination era” of learning.
Philippa Wraithmell is an education and digital-learning strategist based in the UAE. As the founder of EdRuption and Digital Bridge, she leads work on digital wellbeing, innovation, and evidence-informed practice. As host of The EdTech Podcast, Philippa explores how technology can elevate teaching, learning, and equitable education across the globe.
Matt Jordan works on the education team at Canva, leading education partnerships across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He supports schools, trusts, and ministries to access Canva for Education and use it effectively. Matt works with over 14 ministries globally and focuses on creativity, communication, and making learning tools culturally relevant and locally meaningful.
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120 Million Users: Canva’s Local Vision
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Episode Overview
On Day 3 of Bett UK 2026, host Philippa Wraithmell speaks with Matt Jordan from Canva. Matt shares how Canva now supports over 120 million teachers and students every month. He explains how new AI tools like Magic Sort save teachers time, how Canva works with schools and governments, and why the platform’s 2026 focus is on becoming truly local and culturally relevant for learners worldwide.
Key Themes in This Episode
Why Listen to This Episode?
This episode gives clear, practical insight into how a widely used EdTech platform supports real classroom needs. It shows how AI can save time without replacing teachers, how creativity improves engagement, and how technology can feel local and inclusive. Listeners will hear real examples from schools and systems using Canva at scale.
Who This Episode Is For?
This episode is for teachers, school leaders, and digital learning teams looking to save time and improve student engagement. It is also useful for EdTech professionals and policymakers interested in AI in education, national partnerships, and how creativity and communication skills can be developed across education systems.
Full Episode Description
In this short and focused episode from the final day of Bett UK 2026, Philippa Wraithmell sits down with Matt Jordan from Canva to explore how the platform is supporting education at global scale.
Matt begins by explaining his role across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. His work focuses on helping schools and education systems access Canva for Education and then supporting teachers to use it well in the classroom. He shares that Canva now supports over 120 million monthly active teachers and students, showing just how widely the platform is used.
A key part of the conversation looks at Canva’s AI features, especially Magic Sort. Matt explains how teachers can use Canva’s whiteboard to collect ideas during lessons or group work. With Magic Sort, those ideas can be organised instantly into clear topics and even turned into a document with just two clicks. This saves teachers time and makes classroom collaboration more useful and easier to follow up.
Matt also discusses how Canva helps teachers turn presentations into worksheets, activities, and resources quickly. Templates act as a starting point, while teachers still have full freedom to adapt content to their own students and subjects. Integration with tools like Google Classroom also makes it easy to share work, collaborate, and manage assignments.
Looking ahead to 2026, Matt explains Canva’s goal of becoming “truly local.” This goes beyond translation. Canva is working to ensure content reflects local cultures, festivals, people, and curriculum needs, so students feel represented and included in what they use.
The episode also shares inspiring real-world examples. In Thailand, a teacher used Canva to turn science lessons into a student-led TV show, with pupils livestreaming their learning and becoming teachers themselves.
Overall, the episode highlights how creativity, communication, and collaboration are essential skills for the future, and how Canva aims to support the move into the “imagination era” of learning.
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