A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Co-designing Text-to-Image Generation Learning Materials for K-12 with Educators
Safinah Ali, Prerna Ravi, Katherine Moore, Hal Abelson, Cynthia Breazeal
Abstract
Text-to-image generation (TTIG) technologies are Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms that use natural language algorithms in combination with visual generative algorithms. TTIG tools have gained popularity in recent months, garnering interest from non-AI experts, including educators and K-12 students. While they have exciting creative potential when used by K-12 learners and educators for creative learning, they are also accompanied by serious ethical implications, such as data privacy, spreading misinformation, and algorithmic bias. Given the potential learning applications, social implications, and ethical concerns, we designed 6-hour learning materials to teach K-12 teachers from diverse subject expertise about the technical implementation, classroom applications, and ethical implications of TTIG algorithms. We piloted the learning materials titled “Demystify text-to-image generative tools for K-12 educators" with 30 teachers across two workshops with the goal of preparing them to teach about and use TTIG tools in their classrooms. We found that teachers demonstrated a technical, applied and ethical understanding of TTIG algorithms and successfully designed prototypes of teaching materials for their classrooms.
BibTeX
@article{Ali_Ravi_Moore_Abelson_Breazeal_2024, title={A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Co-designing Text-to-Image Generation Learning Materials for K-12 with Educators}, volume={38}, url={https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/30373}, DOI={10.1609/aaai.v38i21.30373}, abstractNote={Text-to-image generation (TTIG) technologies are Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms that use natural language algorithms in combination with visual generative algorithms. TTIG tools have gained popularity in recent months, garnering interest from non-AI experts, including educators and K-12 students. While they have exciting creative potential when used by K-12 learners and educators for creative learning, they are also accompanied by serious ethical implications, such as data privacy, spreading misinformation, and algorithmic bias. Given the potential learning applications, social implications, and ethical concerns, we designed 6-hour learning materials to teach K-12 teachers from diverse subject expertise about the technical implementation, classroom applications, and ethical implications of TTIG algorithms. We piloted the learning materials titled “Demystify text-to-image generative tools for K-12 educators" with 30 teachers across two workshops with the goal of preparing them to teach about and use TTIG tools in their classrooms. We found that teachers demonstrated a technical, applied and ethical understanding of TTIG algorithms and successfully designed prototypes of teaching materials for their classrooms.}, number={21}, journal={Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, author={Ali, Safinah and Ravi, Prerna and Moore, Katherine and Abelson, Hal and Breazeal, Cynthia}, year={2024}, month={Mar.}, pages={23260-23267} }