A Leap In The Dark: Season 2

In Episode 5, Chelsy Hooper from Auburn University presents the amazing work she's doing in terms of promoting digital literacy across campus as well as deeply thinking about AI literacy. Our chat turns to the ways they are addressing knowledge development in relation to copyright and ethical practice with generative AI.

In this episode the conversation delves deeper into areas surrounding ethics and critical practice. Sugandha, from OCAD University in Toronto, discusses how Generative AI will require critical reading and understanding. The time is now to consider the importance of AI Literacy alongside Digital and Visual Literacy.

In this episode we chat to Gina Asaro-Collura who is not only a creative educator, she is also a practicing Creative Director very much involved in the industry where she gets to experience the application of AI within a high stakes setting. Does the educational space become a playground for testing ideas? Do we hold back within the business setting? Where will Generative AI take us with it's accelerated evolution?

In this episode I chat to Joseph Labrecque, and Adobe Education Leader and Assistant Teaching Professor at CU Boulder. Joseph is a technical wizard, seriously, and a big advocate for the use of digital tools in creative practice. So what doe she make of Generative AI? How is he applying the various tools available and what does he he see as the future of generative AI in creative education? Oh, and we talk a bit about ethics too, of course.

In this episode I chat with Dan Ligon, Creative Educator on the Advertising program at CU Boulder. Dan breathes creative practice - he has written copy, directed the creative process, made short films, loves guitars and inspired a generation of hungry creatives entering the advertising industry. Dan was one of the first fellow educators I knew to be exploring Generative AI and the possibilities it held for creative ideation. Here we talk about its introduction into classroom practice and muse on what the future holds for out-the-box thinking and visualization.