👩‍🎨 Are Students Losing Their Creative Edge with Generative AI?

The days of endlessly scrolling through stock photos are over! With Generative AI, you can create the exact image or video you need in seconds. For students, this means expressing ideas faster and more vividly than ever before, unlocking new possibilities for creative projects and storytelling.

But with every game-changing innovation comes important questions. While AI makes creativity more accessible, could it also limit original thinking by offering too many ready-made solutions? And what happens when AI-generated content doesn’t quite match the vision or worse, produces something completely off the mark?

In this newsletter, we’ll take a closer look at how AI is transforming creative expression in the classroom and what it means for the future of learning.

Here is an overview of today’s newsletter:

• Resources to support students in creating self-directed projects

• Key insights from an interview with a student in the creative field navigating the use of Generative AI in the creative industry

• A study on how Generative AI may contribute to metacognitive laziness

• Results from schools that have implemented Khanmigo in the classroom

🚀 Practical AI Usage and Policies

🎙️ Student Perspectives on AI

• Gen Z Can't Separate Fact From AI Fiction (US News Opinion)

  An 18-year-old, Amy Wong, shares her take on AI, leaning toward a more cautious view on AI-generated content. She highlights how Gen Z struggles to tell the difference between real and fake content. One of the most compelling points she makes is the urgent need for media literacy education from a young age. While states like California have passed laws to address this, implementation has been slow.

• What this teenager wants you to know about the damaging effects of AI (CNN Health)

  In this CNN interview, a student highlights the dangers of AI-generated content and the challenges it poses to building genuine connections. Many teens today are becoming increasingly skeptical of online content, particularly with the rise of AI-generated content. It has fueled a growing mistrust in what teens encounter online, leading to calls for labels or watermarks on AI-generated material. This mistrust isn’t confined to the internet, but also affects how teens perceive authority and information in their daily lives.

📖 The Latest Reads

• Are the Internet and AI affecting our memory? What the science says (Nature)

  Last year’s word of the year was “brain rot,” but does this really signify a downward trend between cognitive thinking (including memory) and AI/Internet

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