Teach the Watermelon Rebellion
Objectives
- Practice critical "reading" of visual material.
- Learn to distinguish between primary source images and AI-generated images.
- Learn to use AI-generated images as research tools.
Preparation
Step 1: Listen to the podcast episode.Step 2: Read the Who's Who. For a quick start, scroll through the carousel:
Lesson Ideas
Prompt A: Create an AI-generated image of a historical event or person- Demonstrate your knowledge of the selected topic by crafting an effective prompt.
- Report on the limits of the image-generator: what did it "refuse" to do?
- Find 3 images that might be described as "training data" for the image you produced. Justify your selections and document the sources of the images.
- Select one of the interactive galleries below and study its contents carefully. [Note this exercise could be performed using only an AI-generated image.]
- Compose a list of 5 [or more!] research questions. What do we need to know about the history in order to assess the "accuracy" of the image?
- Extra credit: Reverse-engineer the prompt used to generate the image.
Prompt C: Study the contents of these two galleries. Can you identify the difference in the two prompts?
Variation gallery AVariation gallery B