We talked about digital content creation using Photoshop, Adobe, Powerpoint, Canva, and AI like Microsoft Bing. Microsoft Bing is an interesting tool that I could potentially incorporate in my classroom. It would be cool to either start with an image and create a story around it, or write a story and create an image to represent it in an English class.

Try out Microsoft Bing Image creator for yourself!

There are some ethical implications when it comes to using Microsoft Bing image creator. First of all, it’s hard to know how to cite the content. It seems decently safe and appropriate to use in the classroom because it inhibits making any images that are outside a certain ‘safe’ criteria in their guidelines. You can find an article about their censorship rules here. If these rules stay the same, I would feel pretty confident that it would be age-appropriate at a high school level. It also scares me a little, like much AI, that images and artwork can be created so quickly. If students have all this at their fingertips, would they be less inclined to develop their artistic skills? Or perhaps it could be a tool to further develop them? I’m not quite sure but time will tell.

I had a great time using Microsoft Bing to create images. My favourite was this picture of rats at a disco concert.

I decided to create digital content on Canva for my free inquiry blog post as I already have a header image that I like for my website. I used an animated image of a frog and tree and surrounded it with information on tree frogs. I went a little crazy with it so it might actually fit into the seductive category of imagery. There is a lot going on and it might take away from the message. I used text boxes, animations, stickers and a colour scheme.

Do you think that my content fits into the ‘seductive’ category? Is it distracting to look at? What aspects could be made more clear to facilitate learning?