In this free, hands-on course you will
- Explore examples of how biases and AI can impact each other in both harmful and positive ways.
- Apply analysis tools to recognize and navigate around potentially harmful biases and stereotypes found within AI-generated media.
- Iterate with AI-generated media in ways that more authentically align with your teaching goals.
- Walk away with a turnkey AI lesson on bias that you can introduce to your students.
Who Should Take This Course
Grades 6-12 educators in all subject areas who want to develop skills and confidence with integrating GenAI tools into your teaching.
Course Features
Learn online at your own pace with step-by-step videos and hands-on activities. Join live events with instructors and peers. It’s completely free!
Certificate of Completion
Earn a Certificate of Completion for 4 hours of professional development.
Learning Objectives
Understand how to analyze and create media with Generative AI tools in ways that can support your teaching objectives in the classroom, including:
- Explore KQED’s guidelines for using GenAI to support student learning and authentic voice.
- Practice analysis and iteration strategies when working with AI-generated images.
- Learn by Doing: Generate an image with AI that authentically aligns with your goals and navigates around harmful biases and stereotypes.
Already completed our “Analyzing Media Messages” course?
This course supplements “Analyzing Media Messages,” going deeper into GenAI created media. Some sections on “bias” and “media analysis” will be familiar to you, but the other content will be new.
Course Curriculum
Your Instructors
We support educators in integrating video storytelling, audio podcasts and other media literacy skills into their teaching practice.
Charlotte Cheng
Charlotte Cheng is the STEM Education Program Manager at KQED. Her expertise is creating effective and engaging content for kids at the intersection of education, media, and technology. Charlotte has also taught in a variety of K-12 classroom settings and one of her workshops was featured on ABC News.
Rachel Roberson
Rachel is KQED’s program manager for humanities professional learning. Previously, she was an English and social studies classroom teacher and teacher leader in San Francisco, Oakland, Austin and internationally. Before becoming a teacher, she was a newspaper reporter in the Bay Area.
Rik Panganiban
Rik Panganiban is the Manager of Online Learning at the San Francisco-based public media station KQED. He supports educators’ professional growth through KQED Teach, an online learning platform with more than 10K registered users. Previously, Rik served as the Senior Manager of Digital Learning at the California Academy of Sciences.
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About KQED
KQED is a nonprofit, public media station and NPR and PBS member station based in San Francisco that offers award-winning education resources and services free to educators nationwide. KQED Teach is a collection of professional development courses that empower educators to teach media literacy, make media for the classroom and lead media-making projects with students in K-12.
All course content unless otherwise noted is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This license excludes all user generated content unless explicitly labeled for reuse by the user. Permission to reuse user generated content should be directed to the individual creator.
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