The below guidelines for Art Education outline Artificial Intelligence (AI) usage in the classroom for the 2023/2024 academic year. These guidelines were developed by Dr. Amy Ruopp in consultation with the art ed faculty and Program Manager and should be followed in tandem with the CCS Institutional AI Statement. If faculty or students have questions about the implementation of these guidelines in the classroom, they should contact Amy Ruopp at aruopp@collegeforcreativestudies.edu
It is assumed that in the next five years, AI systems will impact the Art Education discipline further and the guidelines offered below allow for applicable student preparation. Art Education recognizes the expanding development and availability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms as tools which support ideation, concept development, and resource inspiration for the development of meaningful, robust and complex lesson encounters for K12 students. “…institutions have a very basic choice: embrace the new tools that are shaping the future or pretend that things have not changed. Trepidation of the unknown is not a reason to deny opportunity. Instead, we should be learning as fast as we can how to leverage AI to prepare students [in the Art Education department and K12] for success in a future in which they will face constant change.” – Forbes, 7/12/23
The AE department believes that there are both appropriate and inappropriate uses of AI within its curriculum.
- AI may be used as a tool to generate baseline ideas around teaching and learning strategies that are then developed within the larger context of student generated lesson plans. Evidence of the effective use of any AI generated strategy must be explicitly cited in the lesson plan.
- AI may be used to generate baseline lists, such as artist exemplars, historical topics, etc. for further development within a student generated lesson plan.
- AI may not replace any form of the learning process, especially the writing of lesson plans and accompanying rationales.
- AI may not be used as final deliverable.
- AI may not be used without appropriate citation of integrated prompts or works. Work generated by AI will be presented as such. Failure to do so may result in an academic integrity violation.
- AI can be used in research and development phases of projects which lead to final deliverables, in such cases all supporting data must be cited and archived in the event that process work is requested by an instructor or other academic party.
Art Education department sees the development of AI as an area of continued transformation, and it is essential that the ethical implications of these tools be investigated on an ongoing basis. The CCS Academic Integrity Policy has been revised to include AI-related concerns.
As AI technology is evolving, these, and the institution’s, guidelines will change as context requires. The above guidelines are in place for the 2023/2024 academic year and may be revised in summer 2024.