On this final day of the 12 Days of AI, participants are asked to reflect a bit on the activities from the past eleven inquiry prompts. I’ve been an outsider of sorts in this project, since I never joined the Microsoft Teams set up for discussion and I imagine — based on the prompts — that the people who are participating are university people in Europe, not elementary teachers in the US, like me.
I tagged along because I am curious. Though wary of the power and potential of the some of the Generative AI tools out there, I admit that, as an educator and writer and artists, I wonder about how we might find ways to harness these tools for creativity. So I played along, and explored some platforms I already knew and some I didn’t know, and tried to be thoughtful about ethics, data and learning as I went along.
I enjoyed the Mapify platform for making AI Mind Maps. I returned to the Holly AI site to explore sound, which was a strange experience and I am not sure the practicality of it. I used a few video AI generating sites, and while I could see all of the flaws, I could also recognize the potential and the potential harm as these sites get better and smoother, and the AI deep fakes and fake people get more realistic. I am curious about Miro, a site I didn’t tap because it seemed like it was available already to the university folks but it seems to more multi-media Generative AI than most. I wondered how the university people were using it, to be honest.
The final activity is to create an artifact of the 12 days of learning, maybe by moving across platforms.
I decided to ask Mapify to create a map of learning for someone new to Generative AI, who wants to learn slowly, and end with a final project. It did. I like how it ended in a creative art project.
I then took that concept into both the Holly audio transformer and an AI Voice site, added some text to be spoken, and then wove those audio files together. For the image, I took the Mind Map and used it as a visual reference in Adobe Firefly, and asked it to create an image of someone new to AI, in exploration.
The result is odd, and the seamlessness of crossing AI platforms is not there yet.
My next steps? Go back into the accounts I used for 12 Days, and delete the ones I know I will never use again.
Peace (splattering paint),
Kevin