Over Coffee® is on hiatus this week. Please enjoy this reposting of one of our top episodes of 2024.
“Right now, I feel we’re exploring a new frontier phase of AI and the arts,” says Jeannine Flores.
In her role as Arts and STEAM Coordinator in Los Angeles County Office of Education‘s Center for Distance and Online Learning, Jeannine draws on her background in music and performing arts, as well as her 19 years teaching school in Orange County.
And she considers artificial intelligence–when used ethically–a great tool for sparking creative ideas.
For anyone who fears having AI replace artists’ creative input, her message is highly encouraging.
“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.”
In this interview recorded in Spring, 2024, Jeannine offered a closer look at some of the ways educators and creatives can use AI ethically–and effectively!–during the creative process.
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.