Cultivating Creativity: Best Practices for the Art Classroom

I’m back…with Ai ideas again in my musings…

This week, a student submitted a Visual Arts Essay that was 100% Ai generated. She was approached about this, and as she didn’t submit a draft, was asked to re-write the assignment in her own words.

Two things can come from this, the student can either bite the bullet, and give it a go based on her own understanding, or decline, and fail the assessment and be flagged for using Ai; which is passed onto the higher powers of those who are paid much more than me.

How do we learn to teach students to use Ai correctly?

I personally, think it’s a valuable tool. As a teacher, I asked an Ai bot to write me a short response exam, for Year 8s, based on the Elements of Art. Now, there is a lot of simplicity there. The Elements of Art haven’t changed, and their meanings are pretty clear across all the board. To align it with the curriculum expectations, I added in key words from the syllabus so the language was similar.

So the Ai punched out this exam, and then it punched out the marking criteria. (Note, I didn’t need nor use this, we have our own criteria already).

Did I use exactly what was punched out?

No.

Because it is still a bot we are talking about here. Although it’s facts about the Elements of Art was accurate, the wording was still very, “bot” – so I was able to re-write the questions to give them a little more humanisation.

Is this wrong or right?

It’s food for thought.