Abstract

The year 2022 saw a shift in the potential and popularity of generative text-to-image models, that is, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven programs that visualize user’s text prompts as an image. Over the fall 2022, the technology found its way to popular media and compulsory school arts and crafts teachers’ discussion boards. This study was designed to explore pre-service teachers’ and craft lecturers’ views on the potential and risks of introducing text-to-image generative models in the compulsory school arts and crafts classroom. The study was organized as a workshop that focused on making images using AI, on how do generative text-to-image models work, which data are used to train them, and what their limitations, challenges, and problems are in general as well as in classroom education in particular. The results demonstrate the ease of using co-design with generative AI as a vehicle for introducing topics in the ethics of AI, technology of AI, and classroom prospects and threats related to AI.

Citation

Tedre, M., Kahila, J. & Vartiainen, H. (2023). Exploration on how co-designing with AI facilitates critical evaluation of ethics of AI in craft education. In E. Langran, P. Christensen & J. Sanson (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 2289-2296). New Orleans, LA, United States: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved June 5, 2023 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/222124/.

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