How can AI enhance creativity?

In the process, what are the ways to use it ethically? Especially in the area of education?

These are the areas which Jeannine Flores is currently exploring.

Jeannine, who serves as Arts and STEAM Coordinator in Los Angeles County Office of Education‘s Center for Distance and Online Learning, has a background in music education and performing arts. And she sees some exciting possibilities for artificial intelligence, as a starting point for creative projects.

“Right now, I feel we’re exploring a new frontier phase of AI and the arts,” she explains.

“I’m just curious about seeing how things are applied, and not being scared of it.”

A departure–not a destination

Jeannine encourages teachers to explore AI, to spark new ideas, while never losing sight of its limitations.

“The thing that’s missing (in AI-generated content) is the human component,” she says. “That human connection to art, to music, to dance…whichever art form we’re looking at. We still need to have that human element.”

But, she says, artificial intelligence can serve as a “first-draft” catalyst, for students’ original work. It can also act as a tool for educators, to ensure that student submissions are, indeed, original!

However, she and her fellow educators are proceeding with caution. “Citing that source is really important,” Jeannine says. “I would never claim (AI-generated content) as my own. We need to be very cognizant and diligent…because (there are so many unknowns about intellectual property and artificial intelligence).”

Jeannine discussed the ways AI can be used ethically in the creative process, examined some of the pitfalls of artificial intelligence and shared some of her favorite AI resources.

On this edition of Over Coffee® we cover:

• How Jeannine, as an artist and educator, first began exploring STEAM;

• How she incorporated literacy into her music classes;

• Some of the ways Jeannine sees, of incorporating artificial intelligence into arts instruction;

• A closer look at some of the risks of AI;

• Several of Jeannine’s favorite arts-related resources;

• An example of how artificial intelligence might be used in the classroom;

• An exploration of the ethics involved in using a creative project generated with AI;

• Future career skills and the application of artificial intelligence to the arts;

• One of Jeannine’s favorite ways in which AI has inspired her;

• How she’d like to use artificial intelligence for student work in the future;

• How best to support AI in education.

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