Expedition 3
Innovation and Imagination
Students learn the basics of generative AI to critically engage with cutting-edge tools — through drawing games, image generation, and art critique.
As Artificial Intelligence becomes a part of everyday life, students benefit from understanding how AI tools work, and what their limits are. Through drawing, image generation, and art critique activities, students will learn about how AI is not a thinking thing, but just a program that has been coded to use abstraction.
Some materials for this Expedition are still in development — lesson guides will fill in as they’re finalized.
The lessons
Lesson 1 · 45 minutes
You and I + AI
Students compare how humans and AI create images from text — drawing from prompts, guessing each other's prompts, and discovering that AI recognizes patterns rather than imagining.
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Lesson 2 · 45 minutes
Picture it with Words
Students generate images in Fractal Studio's AI Art tool, refine their prompts, look for signs of bias, and reflect on how to adapt AI output to express their own ideas.
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Lesson 3 · 45 minutes
AI Art Critique
Students apply the four-step art critique — Describe, Analyze, Interpret, Evaluate — to human-made and AI-generated images, and wrestle with questions of authorship, intent, and originality.
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Lesson 4 · 45 minutes
Art Remix
Students remix artwork with AI — full lesson guide in development.
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