AI Image & Media Generation

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Why it works

Generative AI extends beyond text to create images, audio, and video, offering teachers uses like custom visuals and illustrations, differentiated materials, and creative projects, while raising distinct issues: authenticity and deepfakes, bias in generated images, copyright and attribution, and teaching students to create and critically evaluate AI media. Using AI-generated media well means leveraging it where it genuinely helps (with a learning purpose), being transparent about AI-generated content, attending to bias and ethics, and building students' critical media literacy for a world of synthetic media.

The research: Guidance on generative AI media; AI ethics.

The run-of-show

Choose your slot. The agenda, timings, and length update to match.

The core activity: use AI-generated media wisely

Teachers leave with a purposeful, transparent, critical use of AI media.

Identify a genuine use for AI-generated images or media (custom visuals, differentiated materials, creative projects).
Use it with a clear learning purpose and be transparent about AI-generated content.
Attend to bias, authenticity, and attribution.
Build students' critical evaluation of synthetic media.

Uses and limits, bothAI image and media generation offers real instructional and creative uses, alongside real issues of authenticity, bias, and ethics. Use it with purpose, transparency, and critical literacy.

Facilitator notes

Use it where it genuinely helps, and be transparent.
Attend to bias, authenticity, attribution.
Build critical media literacy.

Uncritical use spreads bias and blurs authenticityAI-generated media can carry bias and blur what is real. Use it with purpose and transparency, and teach students to evaluate synthetic media critically.

Adapt it

Elementary: simple creative uses, it is AI-made, evaluate.
Secondary: uses, ethics, authenticity, critical evaluation.
All settings: purpose, transparency, critical literacy.

Participant handout

One page for every teacher. Print it, or save it as a PDF.

K12 Academics · Professional Learning

AI Media: uses and limits

Purpose and critical literacy: genuine uses, transparency, and attention to bias, authenticity, and attribution.

A genuine use for AI-generated media:
The clear learning purpose:
How I am transparent about AI-generated content:
How I attend to bias, authenticity, and attribution:
How I build critical evaluation of synthetic media:

Make it stick

Uses and limits:

Use AI media with purpose.
Be transparent.
Bring an AI-media use and its critique to the next PLC.

Common questions

What can AI image and media generation do for teaching?

Create custom visuals and illustrations, differentiated or translated materials, and support creative projects. Use it where it genuinely helps learning, with a clear purpose.

What are the concerns?

Authenticity and deepfakes, bias in generated images, copyright and attribution, and the need to teach students to evaluate synthetic media critically. Use it transparently and ethically.

Should students create AI media?

They can, for creative and learning purposes, but teach them to do so ethically and to critically evaluate AI-generated media, since they live in a world of synthetic content.