🤖 "AI weirdness" and the classroom

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🤖 "AI weirdness" and the classroom

After using AI image generators a LOT in my own classroom, it was time to update our AI image generators post.

I added some new tools to the list (notably Ideogram, my absolute favorite image generator right now!).

And I added a bit about my classroom experience with AI image generators, including this section on talking about “AI weirdness” with my students.

I think it’s important.

Copied below directly from the post (so you don’t have to click to read it!) …

I used AI images a lot with my students. It helped us learn and practice with new content, but it also did something else.

It allowed me to teach them AI literacy without an entire AI unit -- or without me being a computer science teacher.

Before showing them AI-generated images, I told them the images were created by AI. (That showed them how a real human adult responsibly discloses AI use in the real world.)

But that wasn't even the best part.

Before we did any Spanish language work, we talked about any "AI weirdness" they saw in the image. It was fun and was very quick. But it was important.

It encouraged them to be on the lookout for what's real and what's synthetic ... or artificial.

Students don't need a whole AI unit or a computer science teacher to show them how to navigate a world with lots of AI in it.

They just need a human teacher that's willing to talk about how AI shows up in the world -- and how it fits into our academic setting. That can happen in 30 seconds or a couple minutes at a time.

Those little "in the moment," "by the way" lessons can be more powerful than an entire unit on AI. And over time, they add up to a real practical education on how to navigate AI in this world.

Read more: AI image generators: 10 tools, 10 classroom uses

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Ever see those fun AI remixes of other friends’ pictures of themselves?

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When you go to Microsoft Designer, scroll down and choose “Restyle Image.” Provide an image of yourself — or whomever you want to restyle. Then pick a style.

Here’s my first attempt at it — original on left, four resulting images on right — using the “Constructivism” style. I kind of like that bottom left one!

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